Course Description
This training will provide a basic foundation for understanding how cultural competence, awareness, and sensitivity can improve quality of care and increase positive outcomes. The professional counselor has an obligation to understand the individual’s context and learn to communicate in a manner that the individual is likely to be able to hear, understand and accept. The professional counselor must have the courage and insight to explore their biases and misconceptions of others with cultural and ethnic differences. Cultural variables to be considered will include age, gender, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, language, educational level, physical ability, economic status and social class as well as racial and ethnic backgrounds, all of which can be influential in the therapeutic process.
Duration: 14 training hours online with a mandatory start date and completion date over a 2 week period.
Online class: Students must follow the course agenda with assignments, forums, quizzes and due dates.
Tuition: $185.00
Instructor: Kim Bappe, LAC, LCSW