To prepare scientist-practitioners, from a social justice framework, this course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to critically examine privileged and marginalized cultural identities, intersectionality, and social justice engagement. The course will cover historical and current psychological and interdisciplinary literature related to the four categories, as well as popular media and individual lived experiences.
Athena Title
Multicultural Psychology
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will examine how their own identities affect how they understand and interact with people different from themselves.
Students will increase their culture-specific knowledge about persons/clients from various racial and ethnic groups, giving special attention to relevant gender and class issues.
Students will apply models, frameworks, and techniques to help increase one’s skill level in working with racial and ethnic group members and systems that serve racial and ethnic minorities.
Students will demonstrate effective interpersonal skills and the ability to manage difficult communication well.
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 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 Educational Psychology with an area of emphasis in School Psychology is a necessary first step for seeking licensure to practice as psychologist in Georgia.
Welcome
•Introductions, Class Expectations, Requirements, Syllabus Review, Ground Rules, In-Class Activities
Multicultural Counseling and Identity Development
• Obstacles to multicultural counseling
• Nature of multicultural counseling
•Identity Development
Privileged and Marginalized Identities – Race and Ethnicity
Privileged and marginalized identities – Gender and sexual orientation
Privileged and marginalized identities – Class
Intersectionality
• Multiracial individuals
• Latinx individuals
• Muslim American individuals
• African/Black American individuals
• Asian American individuals
• Advocacy
