Graduate Centre for Applied Psychology - GCAP 633
Infusing Culture into Counselling
Overview
GCAP 633: Infusing Culture into Counselling is designed to enable students to enhance their professional competencies in working with individuals or groups from non-dominant populations. The course will facilitate development of self-awareness, theoretical knowledge, and skill acquisition. The focus of the course is on concepts and principles of counselling psychology that enhance our understanding of and effectiveness in addressing particular issues related to age, ability, gender, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and so on. Professional practice considerations are addressed through exposure to course readings, experiential learning, interactions with peers, and exposure to individuals with diverse cultural backgrounds. Students will be expected to examine their own attitudes, behaviours, perceptions, and biases.
- Method of Delivery: Paced study; Online
- Credit Weight / Area of Study: 3 credits - Graduate Studies
- Prerequisite: None
Outline
- Lesson 1: Introduction to Multicultural Counselling
- Lesson 2: Concepts of Culture
- Lesson 3: Multicultural Counselling Competencies
- Lesson 4: The Multicultural Counselling Process
- Lesson 5: Ethics and Multicultural Counselling
- Lesson 6: Counselling Girls and Women
- Lesson 7: Counselling Immigrants and Refugees
- Lesson 8: Counselling First Nations People
- Lesson 9: Counselling Lesbians
- Lesson 10: Counselling People from Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups
- Lesson 11: Counselling Gay Males
- Lesson 12: Counselling International Students
- Lesson 13: Continued Competency in Multicultural Counselling
Evaluation
To receive credit for GCAP 633, students must submit all of the course assignments. The passing grade for the course is 70%. The weighting of assignments is as follows.
Course Assignments
The assessment structure for GCAP 633: Infusing Culture into Counselling is based on the following course activities, with the percentage weighting of each activity as indicated. Your final grade for the course will be a composite mark based on your performance in these course activities.
Course Activity Weight Participation in Online Discussions 20% Assignment 1: Professional Issues Paper 20% Assignment 2: Cultural Interview 40% Assignment 3: Personal Competencies Paper 20% Total 100%
Academic Accommodation Policy
Students with a disability, who require academic accommodation, need to register with the Access to Students with Disabilities Centre at Athabasca University. Notification of the need for academic accommodation must normally be provided to the program office no later than fourteen (14) days prior to the first day of class. It is the student's responsibility to register with the Disability Centre to request academic accommodation if required and to notify the instructor that such accommodation has been requested. Every reasonable effort will be made to accommodate individual student needs. However, because GCAP courses are paced, all student are required to participate weekly in the online discussion forums. There are also several courses where online exams are required.
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