Course supports doctoral students in health service psychology as scientist-practitioners with empirical research, theories, paradigms, and ethical practice relevant to multicultural counseling and psychology. Emphasis on culturally responsive clinical skills and systems bases of behavior. Particular focus on scholars of multicultural psychology and counseling and translating theory to practice.
Athena Title
Ad Multicultural Counseling
Prerequisite
ECHD 7060 and permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring and summer
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will gain an awareness of theories, concepts, and evidence-based associated with multicultural counseling and psychology research and clinical practice.
Students will develop a knowledge of a range of skills (i.e., approaches to assessment, intervention, interviewing, etc.) to facilitate multicultural practice and research in psychology with individuals, groups, and communities across diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Students will apply broader scholarship and theory relevant to systems bases of behavior and interdisciplinary discourse that may have an impact on counseling psychology research and practice.
Students will develop an awareness of the growth areas in multicultural research and practice as well as the future direction for multicultural counseling and psychology.
Students will develop ongoing recognition and understanding of the self as a cultural being, holding multiple intersecting, fluid, and complex social identities, and of the lifelong process involved with developing a multicultural orientation in research and practice areas (clinical, training, supervision, teaching, and service).
Topical Outline
This course supports core competencies in the American Psychological Association’s requirements for profession-wide competencies which detail that certain competencies are required for all students who graduate from programs accredited in health service psychology. Programs must provide opportunities for all of their students to achieve and demonstrate each required profession-wide competency. The competencies serve as foundations upon which later competencies are built, each competency is considered critical and necessary for graduates in programs accredited in health service psychology. The specific requirements for each competency are articulated in APA’s Implementing Regulations. Because science is at the core of health service psychology, programs must demonstrate that they rely on the current evidence-base when training students in the following competency areas. From APA’s standards, this course provides background for building competencies in APA’s Standard II.B.1.b, elements (ii.) ethical and legal standards; (iii) individual and cultural diversity; (iv) professional values, attitudes, and behaviors; (v) communication and interpersonal skills; and (ix) consultation and interprofessional/interdisciplinary skills. Completion of this required course as part of the doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology is a necessary first step for seeking licensure to practice as a psychologist and for advancing future responsive evidence-based research in health service psychology.
• MC Counseling and Psychology Theory & Concepts
• Self and Systems Assessment in Cultural Contexts
• Multicultural Care
• Intersectionality
• Identity Development Models
• Ethical Issues in Multicultural Counseling and Psychology
• Cultural Analysis
• Culture and Intervention
• Psychological Assessment and Service Delivery
