PYD875 Counseling With Immigrants and Refugees (2 cr.)

Prerequisite(s): Completion of first year coursework (24 credits)
This course focuses on cultural premises, history, life experiences, and worldviews of immigrant and refugee groups. Research, theory, and clinical issues and implications are examined. This course also focuses on roles of the psychologist as educator, researcher, clinician, organizational change agent, and policy developer.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Articulate the common factors of working with immigrant and refugee groups as well as factors unique to specific immigrant and refugee communities in the U.S.
2. Evaluate research and theory regarding evidenced-based practices applied to work with immigrant and refugee populations.
3. Identify cultural assumptions underlying theory, research, and program development in the field of psychology and present barriers to service.
4. Conceptualize individuals according to multiple cultural contexts that intersect with and overlap ethnicity and immigration or refugee status.
5. Integrate culturally appropriate skills into counseling, supervision, consultation, and other applied psychological practices.