Credential 2: Contextual and Emotion-Specific Clinical Communication (Sessions 5-8)

This advanced-level program is designed to develop functional clinical Spanish skills for therapeutic practice, grounded in The Skilled Helper Model by Gerard Egan. Through a structured, experiential approach, participants learn to communicate ethically and effectively with Spanish-speaking clients across diverse helping contexts. Students will acquire practical language tools to conduct initial interviews, express empathy, explore emotions, provide psychoeducation, manage emotional crises, and close sessions with clarity and cultural sensitivity. The curriculum emphasizes communication for safety, alliance-building, and meaning-making rather than grammatical perfection, aligning language use with core therapeutic competencies (Egan, 2018). Throughout the program, students will develop essential helping skills including active listening, emotional reflection, collaborative goal clarification, respectful reframing, and action planning. By integrating language learning with the three stages of Egan’s model—Exploration, Understanding, and Action—participants strengthen their ability to support client agency, foster therapeutic alliance, and translate insight into concrete steps. Graduates of the course will demonstrate increased confidence, cultural humility, and functional communicative competence, enabling them to provide more accessible and ethical care to Spanish-speaking individuals, families, and communities (Egan, 2018).

This course is designed for English-speaking therapists and helping professionals who work with Spanish-speaking individuals, families, and communities. It is appropriate for mental health clinicians, counselors, psychologists, social workers, coaches, educators, healthcare providers, and other professionals in caregiving and support roles. The program is especially relevant for those serving diverse, multicultural, immigrant, and bilingual populations. No advanced Spanish proficiency is required. The course focuses on functional, ethical, and clinically appropriate communication to support therapeutic relationships and client safety across helping contexts.

No advanced Spanish proficiency is required, however CONVERSATIONAL-LEVEL Spanish is a prerequisite.

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Purchase of this product provides access to sessions 5-8 (Credential 2) of the Functional Clinical Spanish for Therapeutic Practice course.

• Participants will have access in both live (synchronous) formats as well as Homestudy (asynchronous) formats. Completion via Homestudy is CE eligible.