CPS 8340 - Advanced Multicultural Counseling Strategies and Interventions

3 Credit Hours
Requirements: A minimum grade of “C” is required for this course.

Description
The course is designed to advance student’s multicultural counseling knowledge and skills with diverse populations. Employing culturally relevant and effective intervention strategies and skills is considered an essential component of cultural competence. Students develop an understanding of how client’s cultural, historical, and sociopolitical context may inform accurate assessment, interpretation and treatment interventions. Culturally-based interventions with the goal of developing purposeful, directional, and culturally relevant approaches to working with diverse clients who present with a range of clinical issues are reviewed. Treatment approaches developed from a cultural frame of reference with attention to the intersections of the client’s race, ethnicity, gender, class, acculturation level, and presenting problem are explored. The course includes both didactic and experiential learning.