Culturally Competent Counseling: Building Skills and Awareness
Earner of this bddge will know about the elements of being a culturally competent counselor, engage in reflective work to compassionately identify and address counseling interfering behaviors. They can unpack their cultural lineage to gain a more precise understanding of their own cultural identity formulation, practice the foundational skills needed to provide culturally competent care to their community members, and collaborate with other international counseling professionals.
- Type Certification
- Level Foundational
- Time Hours
- Cost Paid
Skills
Earning Criteria
Standards
A.3.a. Provide students with a culturally responsive school counseling program that promotes academic, career and social/emotional development and equitable opportunity and achievement outcomes for all students.
A.9.d. Provide culturally responsive mental health resources to parents/guardians.
A.15.c. Promote equity and inclusion through culturally affirming and sustaining practices honoring the diversity of families. Recognize that all parents/guardians, custodial and noncustodial, are vested with certain rights and responsibilities for their children’s welfare by virtue of their role and according to law.
B.3.k. Honor the diversity and identities of students and seek training/supervision when prejudice or biases interfere with providing comprehensive school counseling services to all pre-K– 12 students. School counselors will not refuse services to students based solely on personally held beliefs/values rooted in one’s religion, culture, or ethnicit