COUN 586 - Multicultural Counseling

4 credits
Encompasses multicultural counseling in the United States. Presents culture-specific models for providing assessment, diagnosis, and treatment services for individuals, including children, adolescents, adults, families, groups, and communities. Examines training and ethical issues for clinical mental health counselors in working with diverse ethnic cultural groups and diverse social cultural groups. Students will also explore their own ethnic and cultural heritage (culture awareness), while challenging attitudes, beliefs, and prejudices, and confronting stereotypes.
Prerequisite(s): Enrollment in the CMHC program.
* This course was formerly offered under a different number; students who took the following course(s) will not receive additional credit unless the course is stated to be repeatable in the description above: PSY 586
Graded (A-F) only.