Diversity and Multicultural Counseling

Catalog description

This course examines the importance of recognizing and addressing cultural diversity and related influences that affect the provision of couples and family including race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disabilities, socioeconomic status and other individual and group differences in the context of providing systems-based interventions. Students will learn therapists’ 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.