LATINX ADVANCED PRACTICUM: TREATMENT PLANNING & INTERVENTIONS
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 575 Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop skills to solicit information to inform culturally congruent and strengths-based treatment goals and counseling strategies with Latinxs. Audience: Graduate 2. Demonstrate culturally affirming and linguistically appropriate case conceptualization skills and treatment interventions with Spanish-speaking Latinxs. Audience: Graduate 3. Facilitate critical self-reflection of your role in counseling Latinxs and provide feedback to peers. Audience: Graduate 4. Demonstrate an advanced understanding of your implicit cultural assumptions and how those influence your case conceptualization, treatment interventions, interactions with clients and colleagues, and overall understanding of the therapeutic process. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop skills to solicit information to inform culturally congruent and strengths-based treatment goals and counseling strategies with Latinxs. Audience: Graduate 2. Demonstrate culturally affirming and linguistically appropriate case conceptualization skills and treatment interventions with Spanish-speaking Latinxs. Audience: Graduate 3. Facilitate critical self-reflection of your role in counseling Latinxs and provide feedback to peers. Audience: Graduate 4. Demonstrate an advanced understanding of your implicit cultural assumptions and how those influence your case conceptualization, treatment interventions, interactions with clients and colleagues, and overall understanding of the therapeutic process. Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027