Multicultural Counseling and Treatment Planning for Individuals and Families

Catalog description

Providing professional counselors with multicultural counseling theory and practices for culturally competent interventions within the broad range of important areas of cultural diversity, along with the in-depth study of factors resulting in diagnostic symptomatology, is a major focus of this course. The scope of cultural diversity includes race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, socioeconomic disadvantage, and military service correlated with how they impact diagnostic interviewing, assessment methods, treatment planning, and the counseling relationship. Significantly enhancing diagnostic interviewing and assessment skills, students would extensively explore the etiology and underlying dynamics of the range of the current DSM diagnosis, design appropriate evidence-based treatment plans, and develop strategies for modifying treatment plans and processes related to cultural diversity.