Counselling Skills VI
Counselling Skills VI
Cultural Counselling
Students will read the required textbook or manual for each section below and answer a series of essay-type questions relating to the material in the textbook. They will submit their answers by uploading them to Moodle.
The Instructor will evaluate the answers and give the student a mark. 80% is a pass for each section. To pass, the student must attain an 80% average in all 3 courses. A certificate will be given to a successful student. The Instructor will provide support if needed for the duration of the program.
Prospective students can challenge the sections below based on prior learning. Advanced Counselling IV is another step towards qualifying for ACCT membership.
Cultural Counselling Part I (45hrs.)
Course Description
Culturally Responsive and Socially Just Counselling is a model the author developed and provides a map for competent multicultural counselling. Through the study of the cultural responsivity and socially just Counselling model, students will learn how counsellor and client’s cultural identities, social locations, life experiences, and sociocultural contexts may impact the client–counsellor relationship and impact understandings for change.
Course Prerequisites Basic Counselling Skills I and II, Advanced Counselling Level I and II.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, the successful student will have reliably demonstrated the ability to:
- Work with a diverse group of clients through collaboration and a deepening working alliance. Counselling as a Relational Practice.
- Creating a foundation of Cultural Safety for clients through the balance of power in the counselling alliance.
- Help clients navigate Life transitions, loss of one’s identity, and ageism through cultural self‐awareness and an understanding of personal positioning.
- Work with Young adults with life‐limiting conditions.
- Social Justice in Family Therapy ‐ exploring assumptions
- Paradox, Grand Narratives and Cultural Beliefs ‐ Family Therapy
- The TriOptimal Learning Model® ‐ Attachment Theory, Neuroplasticity and Ecological Systems Theory
- Implement and evaluate culturally responsive and socially just interventions for individuals, couples and families in collaboration with clients.
- Levels of assessment – macro-level – individuals, couples, and families. Mesolevel – schools, organizations and communities. Macro-level – social, economic and political systems.
- What are the stories you tell yourself – Narrative viewpoint
- Trauma and Healing among Refugees
Cultural Counselling Part II (45hrs.)
Course Description
Culturally Responsive and Socially Just Counselling is a model the author developed and provides a map for competent multicultural counselling. Through the study of the cultural responsivity and socially just Counselling model students will learn how counsellor and client’s cultural identities, social locations, life experiences, and sociocultural contexts may impact the client–counsellor relationship and impact understandings for change.
Learning Objectives
- Work with a diverse group of clients through collaboration and a deepening working alliance. Counselling as a Relational Practice.
- Creating a foundation of Cultural Safety for clients through the balance of power in the counselling alliance.
- Help clients navigate Life transitions, loss of one’s identity, and ageism through cultural self‐awareness and an understanding of personal positioning.
- Work with Young adults with life‐limiting conditions.
- Social Justice in Family Therapy ‐ exploring assumptions
- Paradox, Grand Narratives and Cultural Beliefs ‐ Family Therapy
- The TriOptimal Learning Model® ‐ Attachment Theory, Neuroplasticity and Ecological Systems Theory
- Implement and evaluate culturally responsive and socially just interventions for individuals, couples and families in collaboration with clients.
- Levels of assessment – macro-level – individuals, couples, and families. Mesolevel – schools, organizations and communities. Macro-level – social, economic and political systems.
- What are the stories you tell yourself – Narrative viewpoint
- Trauma and Healing among Refugees
