Cultural Humility Across Generations
Practical Strategies to Improve Case Conceptualization and Effective Intervention with Older Adult Clients
- Speaker:
- Katherine King, PsyD
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 01 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
-
May 14, 2026
- Product Code:
- POS150821
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
All clients are impacted by the historical events, social norms, and power structures in which they live.
And so are all therapists.
To be effective across generations, clinicians must expand their understanding of culture by viewing age cohort and generation as critical variables, going beyond stereotypes about how “Boomers” or “The Silent Generation” will present in and respond to psychotherapy.
In this session, Dr. Katherine Dearborn King – geropsychology expert and author of The Well Helper– will give you tools to explore how intersectional identities converge to influence how older adults understand mental health, express distress, relate to authority, and engage in treatment. You’ll walk away with:
- A practical framework to improve generational solidarity and mutual understanding
- Strategies to reduce the harmful effects of misattunement and sterotyping
- A framework to adapt communication and intervention across generational and cultural differences
Credit
Speaker
Katherine King, PsyD Related seminars and products
Katherine King, PsyD, is a licensed psychologist practicing in Massachusetts. She has advanced specialized training in Geropsychology and specific interests in adult development and aging, couples across the lifespan, gender/sexual/relationship diversity, existential concerns, chronic illness, and burnout recovery. She has worked and trained in various medical and mental health care settings such as inpatient psychiatry, primary care, palliative and hospice care, skilled nursing, home-based care, and elder protective services.
Dr. King is currently an associate professor, the Geropsychology concentration director, and a faculty member in the clinical health psychology concentration in the clinical PsyD doctoral program at William James College in Newton, MA. She is engaged in research on death anxiety, burnout, older adult personality assessment, adultism, and the Geropsychology mental health workforce shortage. Dr. King is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Gerontology Association. She completed her APA-accredited clinical psychology internship in the Geropsychology track at Bedford VAMC and went on to complete a postdoctoral fellowship in Geropsychology at VA Boston Healthcare System.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Katherine King maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with the William James College. She is the co-host of Noble Mind Podcast and receives compensation as a faculty advisor. Katherine King receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Katherine King is a member of the Gerontological Society of America, the American Psychological Association, Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy, the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists, Massachusetts Gerontology Association, the Psychologists in Long-Term Care, and the Massachusetts Psychological Association. She is an ad hoc reviewer for Clinical Gerontologist.
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Objectives
- Evaluate how cultural generation intersects with race, gender, class, sexuality, disability, and immigration status in older adult clinical work.
- Identify at least three ways historical and sociocultural context shapes symptom expression, help-seeking, and engagement in therapy among older adults.
- Utilize at least three culturally responsive strategies to improve assessment, case conceptualization, and intervention with older adult clients.
Outline
Generation, Culture, and Clinical Practice
- Defining culture, generation, and age cohorts
- How historical events, social norms, and power structures impact individuals
- Overview of major age cohorts represented in older adult clinical work
- The risks of stereotyping
- Cultural humility and curiosity across generations
Clinical Implications: Case Conceptualization
- The influence of historical context on values, communication styles, and help-seeking
- How generational and cultural context shape symptom presentation and meaning-making
- Older adults’ relationships to authority, diagnosis, and mental health treatment
- Intersection of generation with race, gender, class, sexuality, disability, and immigration status
- Culturally responsive case conceptualization
Intervention Strategies and Generational Solidarity
- Practical strategies for improving generational attunement and therapeutic alliance
- Adapt communication and intervention approaches across generational and cultural differences
- Address internalized ageism in clients and clinicians
- Techniques to foster mutual understanding and collaboration across generations
- Ethical considerations
- Limitations of current research and potential risks
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- Marriage and Family therapists
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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