STRENGTHENING LATINXS

CHICLA/COUNPSY 590

Introduction to the development and implementation of community-engaged research and programming for Latine populations with "Esperanza," an innovative university-community partnership with Centro Hispano of Dane County. Community-engaged research draws on interdisciplinary research and practice across education, psychology and public health that seeks to disrupt, mitigate, and eliminate mental health disparities among local Latine populations. Learn the principles of community-engaged research and apply them through the development of mutually beneficial, reciprocal, effective, equitable, and justice-oriented community-university projects.

COUNPSY 575

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.

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 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.