COUN 520 - Social and Cultural Diversity in Counseling

Credits: 4.5

This course provides an examination, through research related to counseling diverse populations, of the influence of culture, race, class, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression, religion, nationality, age, ability, mental and physical characteristics, education, family influences, on the provision of counseling services. This course is designed to increase student’s cultural humility, evaluate societal trends, human roles, subgroups, norms, diversity lifestyle, and communication patterns, and examine personal and institutional prejudice, bias, oppression, and discrimination as well as psychosocial theories of multicultural counseling and identity development. Students will develop personal awareness of cultural issues and professional multicultural counseling competencies as well as gain insight into personal assumptions, values, beliefs, and expectations about self and others as a means of working more effectively with diverse populations in the therapeutic process. Student must be accepted into the CMHC program to register.

Master Syllabi: COUN 520 Syllabus