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PSYC 922

Multicultural Clinical Practice

3 units · Graduate

Winter 2025

Topics

  • Intersectionality
  • Colonialism
  • Relationships
  • Psychopathology
  • Gender
  • Disability
  • Development
  • Learning
  • Clinical psychology
  • Consciousness
  • Motivation
  • Social justice
  • Trauma
  • Psychotherapy

Readings

  • Listed material: Assigned readings are articles and chapters and one short book. Materials will be available in OnQ, but you may prefer to purchase some of the books to reference in your future work. Reading open 1 week before they are due (after the preceding class). Book: Shraya, V. (2018). I’m afraid of men. Penguin Canada. Selected chapters from: Comas-Díaz, L. E., & Rivera, T. (Eds.). (2020). Liberation psychology: Theory, method, practice, and social justice (pp. xx-314). American Psychological Association. Eddo-Lodge, R. (2020). Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race. Bloomsbury Publishing. Gebhard, A., McLean, S., & Denis, V. S. (Eds.). (2022). White benevolence: Racism and colonial violence in the helping professions. Fernwood Publishing. Hook, J. N., Davis, D., Owen, J., & DeBlaere, C. (2017). Cultural humility: Engaging diverse identities in therapy. American Psychological Association. Oluo, I. (2019). So you want to talk about race. Hachette UK. Martín-Baró, I. (1996). Writings for a liberation psychology. Harvard University Press. Poole, E., & Greaves, L. (Eds.). (2012). Becoming trauma informed. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Sue, D. W., Sue, D., Neville, H. A., & Smith, L. (2022). Counselling the culturally diverse: Theory and practice (9th ed.). Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons. Articles: Bergstrom, T., Reid, B. M., Lee, S. Y., & Stroud, L. R. The history of clinical psychology and its relationship to ableism: Using the past to inform future directions in disability-affirming care. The Behavior Therapist, 46(7), 255-
  • Listed material: 260. Ford, B. Q., Green, D. J., & Gross, J. J. (2022). White fragility: An emotion regulation perspective. American psychologist, 77(4), 510. Levinson, C. A., Fitterman-Harris, H. F., Patterson, S., Harrop, E., Turner, C., May, M., ... & Becker, C. B. (2023). The unintentional harms of weight management treatment: Time for a change. The Behavior Therapist, 46(7), 271-281. Liu, W. M., Liu, R. Z., Garrison, Y. L., Kim, J. Y. C., Chan, L., Ho, Y., & Yeung, C. W. (2019). Racial trauma, microaggressions, and becoming racially innocuous: The role of acculturation and White supremacist ideology. American Psychologist, 74(1), 143. Lorenzo-Luaces, L., & Rodriguez-Seijas, C. (2023). The ABC(T)s of an apology: When allyship breeds animosity. The Behavior Therapist, 46(8), 360-364. Maker Castro, E., Wray-Lake, L., & Cohen, A. K. (2022). Critical consciousness and wellbeing in adolescents and young adults: A systematic review. Adolescent Research Review, 7(4), 499-522.
  • Listed material: Version date 01.08.25 Rini, R. (2018). How to take offense: Responding to microaggression. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 4(3), 332-351. Rodriguez-Seijas, C. A., McClendon, J., Wendt, D. C., Novacek, D. M., Ebalu, T., Hallion, L. S., ... & Mekawi, Y. (2023). The next generation of clinical psychological science: Moving toward antiracism. Sadika, B., Wiebe, E., Morrison, M. A., & Morrison, T. G. (2020). Intersectional microaggressions and social support for LGBTQ persons of color: A systematic review of the Canadian-based empirical literature. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 16(2), 111-147. Sawyer, B. (2023). Liberated Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Liberating CBT from the cognitive distortions of White Western European culture. The Behavior Therapist, 46(8), 320-326. Treichler, E. B. H., & Jones, N. (2023). Harm in psychological interventions for people with psychosis: The twin arms of disempowerment and discrimination. The Behavior Therapist, 46(8), 327-336. Tsuji, S. R., Zuk, A. M., Solomon, A., Edwards-Wheesk, R., Ahmed, F., & Tsuji, L. J. (2023). What Is Wellbeing, and What Is Important for Wellbeing? Indigenous Voices from across Canada. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(17), 6656. Yi, J., Neville, H. A., Todd, N. R., & Mekawi, Y. (2023). Ignoring race and denying racism: A meta-analysis of the associations between colorblind racial ideology, anti-Blackness, and other variables antithetical to racial justice. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 70(3), 258.
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