IMHA 520 - Culture, Diversity and Counselling

Credits: 3 Total Hours: 45

Restricted to students in Interprofessional Mental Health and Addictions
Students explore theory, conceptual frameworks, knowledge, and skills associated with inter-relationships between culture, diversity, and counselling. Through critical self-reflection, students gain insight into how their perceptions, attitudes, and biases may influence the counselling dynamic. Students gain culturally specific and relevant knowledge and skills to inform how they build therapeutic alliances, approach assessment and plan treatment. Students identify professional roles and responsibilities to develop a practice that is culturally-informed and based on principles of social justice.