MFT 6210: Multicultural Issues in Family Therapy (2024-2025)

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This course is designed to provide a background and introduction to some of the multitude of cultural, socioeconomic, and ethnic variables that may bear upon a clinical situation in family therapy. Students will promote an understanding and appreciation of sociocultural differences and the dynamics of oppression among individuals, groups, and families, and the impact such differences have on the theory and clinical practice of family therapy. Students will be asked to explore influences of their own cultural backgrounds upon their practice of marriage and family therapy.