LATINX FOUNDATIONAL PRACTICUM: CASE CONCEPTUALIZATION
Examine the mental health treatment and practice implications of working with Spanish-speaking Latinxs through a culturally affirming, linguistically appropriate, and strengths-based approach. Evaluate different counseling strategies and develop skills to understand and assess Latinx mental health to appropriately guide treatment. Foster reflexivity and examine one's own sociopolitical positionality and influence on the process of psychotherapy with Latinxs.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: COUN PSY/CHICLA 525 and COUN PSY 550 Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop culturally affirming and linguistically appropriate case conceptualization skills with Spanish-speaking Latinxs. Audience: Graduate 2. Demonstrate skills to solicit information to inform culturally congruent and strengths-based understanding of Latinx clients’ presenting concerns. Audience: Graduate 3. Evaluate your theoretical approach to counseling and culturally tailor to increase psychotherapeutic effectiveness with Latinxs. Audience: Graduate 4. Engage in group supervision that facilitates critical self-reflection of your role in counseling Latinxs and provides feedback to peers. Audience: Graduate 5. Demonstrate understanding of your implicit cultural assumptions and how those influence your case conceptualization, interactions with clients and colleagues, and understanding of the therapeutic process. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop culturally affirming and linguistically appropriate case conceptualization skills with Spanish-speaking Latinxs. Audience: Graduate 2. Demonstrate skills to solicit information to inform culturally congruent and strengths-based understanding of Latinx clients’ presenting concerns. Audience: Graduate 3. Evaluate your theoretical approach to counseling and culturally tailor to increase psychotherapeutic effectiveness with Latinxs. Audience: Graduate 4. Engage in group supervision that facilitates critical self-reflection of your role in counseling Latinxs and provides feedback to peers. Audience: Graduate 5. Demonstrate understanding of your implicit cultural assumptions and how those influence your case conceptualization, interactions with clients and colleagues, and understanding of the therapeutic process. Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027