Course Detail :

Mental health counseling should assist students to take their own backgrounds into account before learning about counseling approaches that center around techniques shown to be multiculturally effective. The importance of therapist characteristics will be emphasized. Additionally, research leading to the misunderstanding of minority culture members will be critiqued as the value of objective scientific reporting is recognized to be critical to advancement in the mental health field.

Rationale :

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. demographic outlook is in continual flux, with ethnic and racial minorities increasing at a much faster rate than the white majority. The research literature asserts that one’s culture has a major influence on how one sees and experiences the world. It creates and shapes many aspects of a person’s life, including language, beliefs, values, leisure activities, food consumption habits, clothing preferences, attitudes toward time, eye contact, gestures and body movements, facial expressions, and even attitudes toward life and death.

The Psychology program at Liberty University is cognizant of the above U.S. population trends, as well as the dynamics that govern diversified communities. As a means of enhancing the University’s goal of training champions for Christ and preparing students to be competent and relevant in their chosen vocational fields, the psychology program has developed a strategy of preparing students to labor in a culturally diversified marketplace, giving them the necessary tools to be effective, comprehensive, and successful in those chosen fields. This course accomplishes that.

Measurable Learning Outcomes :

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

1. Identify the major concepts and theories in multicultural counseling.
2. Evaluate personal hindrances to effective multicultural counseling.
3. Describe the constructs related to racial identity/acculturation in people groups.
4. Assess what constitutes an ethical multicultural counselor.
5. Discuss empirical evidence regarding counseling techniques with specific minority populations.
6. Evaluate multicultural issues from a biblical perspective.

Course Assignment :

Textbook readings and lecture presentations (MLO: A, B, C, D, E, F) :

Course Requirements Checklist :

After reading the Course Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in the Course Overview.

Discussions (4) :

• Discussions are collaborative learning experiences.
• Therefore, the student will create a thread in response to the provided prompt for each discussion.
• Each thread must be at least 250 words. In addition to the thread, the student is required to reply to 2 other classmates threads.
• Each reply must be at least 150 words. (MLO: C, D, F)

Scholarly Article Critique Paper Assignments (2) :

This paper is made up of 2 assignments: the Scholarly Article Critique: Proposal Assignment and the Scholarly Article Critique: Final Submission Assignment.

The student will summarize and critique 1 scholarly journal article (it must be a journal article—no book or article reviews, books, magazine articles, newspaper articles, newsletters, or editor’s comments/summary of an edition will be accepted) from the ‘References’ section of the course textbook. The Journal Article Summary/Critique must be 3.5-4 pages, not including the title, abstract, and reference pages. The student must include a biblical worldview in his or her analysis. (MLO: A, B, C, D, E)

Supplemental Assignment :

For the Supplemental Assignment, the student will read the provided articles (2) in the Resources section and write an annotated bibliography in the current APA format for the 2 articles. (MLO: C, D, F)

PowerPoint Presentation Assignment :

Create a 6-slide PowerPoint presentation for one of the two articles provided on Canvas from the annotated bibliography (Supplemental 1). Describe the following main points of the article in your PowerPoint: The hypothesis of the study, the participant of the study, the methods used in the study, and the results of the study. Include a biblical application in the PowerPoint. (MLO: C, D, F)

No of Total Quizzes (4) :

Each test will cover the Learn material for the module: week in which it is assigned, as well as the prior module: week. Each test will be open-book/open-notes and contain 50 multiple-choice and true/false questions. Some tests may also include matching questions and essay questions. There is a 90-minute time limit. (MLO: A, B, C, D, E, F)