LGBT Community Action

Catalog description

This class introduces LGBT Specialization students in the last quarters of their education to the importance of engaging the LGBT community as a way of becoming effective, competent mental health care workers, and to the notion that psychotherapy and community psychology activism go hand-in-hand in our work to intervene transformationally on heterosexism, cis-sexism, oppression, and unjust power as this manifests both in the psyche and in society. The class should seek to integrate learning from the LGBT Specialization and can be conceptualized as a “capstone” class. The class also works to help prepare LGBT Specialization students for work in the community post-graduation and is an important step on their way to Professional Development. Students will conceptualize a project and create goals and a timeline for the project (that will reach fruition by the end of the quarter).