Multicltrl Counselng & Family

Catalog description

This course studies multicultural counseling theories and techniques, including counselors' roles in developing cultural self-awareness, identity development, promoting cultural social justice, individual and community strategies for working with and advocating for diverse populations, and counselors' roles in eliminating biases and prejudices, and processes of intentional and unintentional oppression and discrimination. The prevalent Eurocentric view of therapy as the only option for therapeutic process is challenged, and alternatives are discussed. Cultural and other human differences, including race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, gender, religion, language, and disability, are considered. RESTRICTED TO COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY STUDENTS; NOT OPEN TO ICP WEEKEND PROGRAM STUDENTS; NOT OPEN TO SOM PROGRAM STUDENTS