PSYC 791

Multicultural Counseling Skills: Psychotherapy with Ethnically & Racially Diverse Clients

This course will help students learn to connect with and engage racially diverse clients in treatment, with an emphasis on culturally competent counseling skills. Students will demonstrate an ability to conceptualize cases from a CBT orientation, incorporating relevant ethnic, racial, social, cultural and economic factors in to the conceptualization. Students will demonstrate reliable use of Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) to improve rapport and connect with racially different clients. Students will be able to incorporate FAP into CBT approaches for the treatment of psychopathology and other difficulties in an individualized and culturally competent manner

Units: 1.0-3.0(2.0)