Cross-Cultural Counseling

Catalog description

Examines theory, research, and models of counseling relationships between counselors and clients of different racial and sociocultural backgrounds. CNPSY 554CNPSY (CN ED) 554 Multicultural Counseling (3) This course is an advanced multicultural counseling course designed to help doctoral students: (a) develop mastery of the multicultural counseling literature, (b) promote self-awareness and self-knowledge, (c) facilitate the construction of cultural knowledge to increase awareness and sensitivity to issues affecting multicultural populations, (d) identify intervention strategies applicable to multicultural clients, and (e) promote development of a personal philosophy of multicultural counseling toward becoming a multiculturally competent counselor. The course is open to CN ED and CNPSY doctoral students who have successfully completed CN ED 507, CN ED 595A or CNPSY 595A, or equivalent courses.