DCES 704 - Advanced Multicultural Counseling, Advocacy & Leadership

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This course is designed to strengthen doctoral students’ ethical and multicultural competencies as counselors/practitioners, counselor educators, supervisors, and researchers. In addition, this course also focuses on students’ understanding of leadership and advocacy models and development of advocacy and leadership skills. Students are required to explore and analyze current policies and resources that are impacting their practice and the welfare of their clients and to formulate advocacy strategies and plans for social changes. Self-reflection and confronting personal biases are also part of the course content along with the practice and application of social justice in the context of race, gender, age, white privilege, nonheterosexual populations, and other diversity issues.