UAB School of Education General Outcomes for all Counselor Education Programs
OUTCOME 2: Social and Cultural Foundations
OUTCOME C2: The UAB counselor candidate models and demonstrates fairness, equity, and sensitivity to a diverse society.
C2.K Knowledge and Understanding: Knows and understands the cultural context of relationships, issues and trends in a multicultural and diverse society; attitudes, beliefs, understandings and acculturative experiences, including specific experiential learning activities; individual, couple, family, and community strategies for working with diverse populations and ethnic groups; counselors’ roles in social justice, advocacy and conflict resolution, cultural self-awareness, the nature of biases, prejudices, processes of intentional and unintentional oppression and discrimination, and other culturally supported behaviors that are detrimental to the growth of the human spirit, mind, or body; Theories of multicultural counseling, theories of identity development, and multicultural competencies; and ethical and legal considerations.
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Levels of Achievement |
Criteria |
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Does not demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the theories, issues, and challenges associated with relationships between counselors and clients who are culturally diverse. |
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[2] |
Demonstrates some knowledge and understanding of the theories, issues, and challenges associated with relationships between counselors and clients who are culturally diverse. |
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Demonstrates adequate knowledge and understanding of the cultural context of relationships, issues and trends in a multicultural and diverse society; attitudes, beliefs, understandings and acculturative experiences, including specific experiential learning activities; individual, couple, family, and community strategies for working with diverse populations and ethnic groups; counselors’ roles in social justice, advocacy and conflict resolution, cultural self-awareness, the nature of biases, prejudices, processes of intentional and unintentional oppression and discrimination, and other culturally supported behaviors that are detrimental to the growth of the human spirit, mind, or body; Theories of multicultural counseling, theories of identity development, and multicultural competencies; and ethical and legal considerations. |
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Demonstrates exemplary knowledge
and understanding of the cultural context of relationships,
issues and trends in a multicultural and diverse society;
attitudes, beliefs, understandings and acculturative
experiences, including specific experiential learning
activities; individual, couple, family, and community strategies
for working with diverse populations and ethnic groups;
counselors’ roles in social justice, advocacy and conflict
resolution, cultural self-awareness, the nature of biases,
prejudices, processes of intentional and unintentional
oppression and discrimination, and other culturally supported
behaviors that are detrimental to the growth of the human
spirit, mind, or body; Theories of multicultural counseling,
theories of identity development, and multicultural
competencies; and ethical and legal considerations |
OUTCOME C2: The UAB counselor candidate models and demonstrates fairness, equity, and sensitivity to a diverse society.
C2.P Performance and Skills: Applies theories of multicultural counseling and multicultural competencies. Conceptualizes and implements culturally-appropriate counseling strategies as it relates to working with diverse individuals
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Levels of Achievement |
Criteria |
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Unable to demonstrate the use of Multicultural counseling theories or competencies; is not familiar with the personal, environmental, and sociopolitical context of clients who are culturally different; does not have a level of cultural self-awareness; does not understand and appreciate the culture of clients who are culturally different; does not identify significant societal issues that influence the success or failure of counseling interventions and relationships; does not identify and develop skills, competencies, and strategies to enhance face-to-face contact with culturally diverse clients. |
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Able to demonstrate the use of multicultural counseling theories and competencies some of the time in terms of becoming familiar with the personal, environmental, and sociopolitical context of clients who are culturally different; cultural self-awareness; understand and appreciate the culture of clients who are culturally different; identify significant societal issues that influence the success or failure of counseling interventions and relationships; and identification and development of skills, competencies, and strategies to enhance face-to-face contact with culturally diverse clients. |
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Able to demonstrate use of multicultural counseling theories and competencies most of the time in terms of becoming familiar with the personal, environmental, and sociopolitical context of clients who are culturally different; cultural self-awareness; understand and appreciate the culture of clients who are culturally different; identify significant societal issues that influence the success or failure of counseling interventions and relationships; and identification and development of skills, competencies, and strategies to enhance face-to-face contact with culturally diverse clients. Individual is demonstrating skills at a proficiency level. |
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Consistently demonstrates the use of multicultural counseling theories and competencies most of the time in terms of becoming familiar with the personal, environmental, and sociopolitical context of clients who are culturally different; cultural self-awareness; understand and appreciate the culture of clients who are culturally different; identify significant societal issues that influence the success or failure of counseling interventions and relationships; and identification and development of skills, competencies, and strategies to enhance face-to-face contact with culturally diverse clients. |