Multicultural Counseling.

Catalog description

This course in multicultural counseling theories and techniques is designed to cover the issues, characteristics, and needs relevant to diverse populations as they relate to counseling. Candidates explore counseling from a multicultural perspective. Counseling candidates receive an overview of the diverse social and cultural contexts that influence counseling relationships such as culture/race/ sex/ethnicity/gender/ SES, etc. The course includes a study of: 1) current issues and trends in a multicultural society, 2) contemporary theories of multicultural counseling, 3) personal awareness of cultural assumptions and biases, along with 4) the impact of oppression and privilege on individuals/ groups with implications for counseling.