Multicultural Counseling ((3))

Catalog description

This course allows candidates to develop multicultural counseling skills and competencies for use in academic settings. Candidates will be asked to consider and reflect on the messages they have internalized about other groups. They will be challenged to consider a wide variety of perspectives and to incorporate behaviors and interventions that are congruent with professional standards and best practices in the area of multicultural counseling. Candidates will be asked to consider current and historical issues in overarching and individual diversity constructs and sub-groupings including, but not limited to age, culture, ethnicity, gender and gender identity, national origin, language, physical appearance and ability, race, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and spirituality.