Multicultural Counseling > Syllabus | Concourse

Course Description This course focuses on the multiple dimensions related to competent multicultural counseling. Major ethnic groups are studied along with the counseling, social justice, and advocacy approaches appropriate to each. In a similar fashion, the overarching cultural context of relationships, including factors such as age, race, gender, sexual orientation, religious and spiritual values, mental and physical characteristics, education, family values, socioeconomic status, and within group as well as between group cultural differences are examined. Theories of multicultural counseling, identity development, pluralistic trends, and systems-oriented intervention strategies (couple, family, group, and community) are considered. Counselor cultural self-awareness and the role of counseling in eliminating biases, prejudice, oppression, and discrimination are emphasized.

Requisites For information regarding prerequisites for this course, please refer to the Academic Course Catalog (https://catalog.liberty.edu/ ).

Rationale The counseling program seeks to train students to evaluate diverse individual, group, and family populations in order to effectively determine appropriate treatments. In order to assess, diagnose, and treat individual, group, and family clients effectively, students must develop cultural self-awareness, appreciate client multicultural differences (including demographic and religious differences), learn principles of social justice, and seek to eliminate prejudice towards a variety of populations.

Method of Instruction: This 8 week course is delivered in a digital asynchronous format, with Canvas® as the primary instructional delivery method. Students complete one module per week over the duration of the course.

Course Learning Outcomes Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Illustrate appropriate knowledge in multicultural counseling in preparation for certification and/or procuring employment in the mental health field.
• Demonstrate appropriate research and report writing skills, including the use of current APA format and computer technology.
• Integrate biblical principles and secular theories in a responsible, eclectic manner as related to multicultural counseling.
• Incorporate ethical and legal standards in counseling diverse cultural populations.
• Assess, diagnose, and treat culturally diverse clients with a broad array of presenting problems and mental disorders using culturally appropriate counseling skills in established best practices.
• Demonstrate knowledge of treatment of culturally diverse clients with broad array of presenting problems and mental disorders using appropriate counseling skills in established best practices.

Online · School of Behavioral Sciences · Counselor Education & Family Studies

Multicultural Counseling COUC-504 CG Section 8WK 11/08/2019 to 04/16/2020 Modified 12/12/2022

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