Understand Your Role: How Interpreters Make Decisions About Role Boundaries

Course length:  1.5 hours  

Course access period: 60 days from purchase date

Once purchased, course access cannot be paused.

Course completion requirements: Pass one exit test (score of 70% or above).

Certificate: Downloadable certificate available immediately upon passing the exit test.

CEUs:

• Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters (CCHI): 1.5 CCHI CE hours
• Maryland Court Interpreter Program: 1.5 CE credits
• Ontario Council on Community Interpreting: 1.5 OCCI PDUs

Learning objectives:

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Explain how the role of the interpreter supports communicative autonomy.
• Analyze and evaluate interpreter decision-making about role boundary challenges.

What you will get:

• Your video instructor: Omari Jeremiah, MA
• 9 interactive exercises, including scenarios to assess the interpreter’s role and a role play in 9 language pairs.
• Guidance on how to clarify your role.
• A valuable three-step model on “how to say no” to unprofessional requests.
• Sections from The Community Interpreter®: An International Textbook and The Medical Interpreter: A Foundation Textbook for Medical Interpreting
• Course completion certificate

 How this lesson will improve your practice:

You will:

• Have a better understanding of the interpreter’s role and why it matters.
• Know how to clarify your role.
• Have tools to decide if requests fall into your role or outside it.
• See how interpreters need to have a shared understanding of their role to avoid confusion.
• Understand that role “limitations” can also be a strength.