PSYC 5580 - Multicultural Counseling (3)

A survey course designed to introduce graduate-level students to the research, theories, and paradigms of counseling with diverse populations. The content of the course will focus key constructs that influence the lived experiences of the major racial and panethnic groups in the United States: African American, Asian American and Pacific Islander, Latino/a (Hispanic), and Native American; we will also cover issues related to international and immigrant populations, and gay/lesbian and bisexual issues in counseling, whiteness, gender, class, and ability. In order to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the counseling issues of diverse populations, the course is organized to address the three components of the tripartite model of multicultural counseling competencies: (a) awareness of own values and biases, (b) knowledge of values and worldviews of diverse populations (e.g., racial and ethnic minorities), and (c) skills or appropriate intervention strategies and techniques.