LATINX FOUNDATIONAL PRACTICUM: CASE CONCEPTUALIZATION

CHICLA/COUNPSY 525

Provides training for students who aspire to one of the helping, health, or mental health professions and who currently work or who envision themselves working with Latin@ populations. Provides important frameworks for working with Latin@s, including cultural, spiritual, linguistic and historical features relevant to this population and begin to apply their knowledge in service learning placements.

COUNPSY 550

Develop proficiency in conducting basic psychotherapeutic helping skills in Spanish through role-plays and specialized training that integrates Latinx psychological theories into practical clinical interventions. Demonstrate advanced Spanish proficiency on ACTFL Proficiency Placement Exam

COUNPSY 580

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.

COUNPSY 500

Provide the philosophical foundations and ethical considerations for delivering culturally- and linguistically-appropriate mental health support to multilingual Latinx communities. Build a foundational knowledge of liberatory philosophy, community-engaged work that promotes radical healing, review the ethical codes relevant to their field of study, and discuss how professional values and ethical mandates relate to Latinx cultural values and multilingual psychological service delivery.

COUNPSY 745

Examine the treatment and practice implications of different mental health diagnoses and adjustment disorders. Reviews advanced principles of mental health diagnoses based on DSM 5 and ICD 10 nomenclatures and contextualizes this review for the practice of counseling applied and adapted for a diversity of clients and communities. Additionally, counseling strategies are reviewed for challenges with adjustment within various sociocultural contexts. Review empirically supported interventions for specific disorders as well as common factors that have been empirically supported as efficacious across disorders. Includes an examination of the cultural foundation of the counseling profession's and clients' explanatory models for (a) psychological and mental health distress as well as (b) healing and treatment strategies.