IPS 1 Multicult. Foundations

Course Description

This is the first in a three-course sequence that supports students in their ethnographic placement. Students are placed for eight hours per week in settings, generally schools or community mental health agencies, which allow them to engage as ethnographers and participant-observers of individuals and groups that are culturally different from each student in significant ways. The ethnographic placement is designed to enhance clinical and cultural competence by broadening the student’s exposure to and appreciation of “others” as they grow in self-awareness. Additionally, students function as a group and reflect upon the group dynamics at their placement and within this course. Course content focuses on foundational and current perspectives in multicultural psychology. Students examine the effects of power, privilege, and oppression on psychological functioning. Students are supported to develop heightened sensitivity to how their cultural assumptions, values, beliefs, and biases serve as both resources and barriers to the effective delivery of mental health services to diverse populations. Emphasis will be placed on contemporary and empirical foundations in multicultural psychology, as well as clinically-relevant literature. Multicultural competence requires a transformative and ongoing process that involves critical exploration of the ways in which we have been socialized as individuals with diverse identities. During this quarter, the focus will be on immigration, social class, race and ethnicity.

Code

PSD 7036

Credits

3.33

Subject

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Programs That Include This Course

• Doctoral Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology (California)