CE 910 - Adv Multicultural Counseling

Semester Hours: 3

This course enables students to deepen awareness and skills in teaching and counseling with individuals from diverse cultural groups. The course explores the social and cultural contexts of relationship issues that surface in a multicultural and diverse society: culture, ethnicity, nationality, age, gender, sexual orientation, mental and physical characteristics, education, family, religious and spiritual values, socioeconomic status and unique characteristics of ethnic groups, and communities as they relate to the field of counseling. Topics include ethical/legal and professional responsibilities viewed within the context of social and cultural diversity, including individual, family, group, and community strategies for working with diverse populations and the counselor’s roles in social justice, advocacy and cultural privilege, oppression and discrimination, and other adverse culturally supported behaviors that are detrimental to the growth of the human spirit, mind, or body.