APD3269H
This course will familiarise doctoral students with current issues and debates concerning the theory and practice of counselling and psychotherapy in a multicultural society. The course seeks to define, redefine and locate multicultural counselling and psychotherapy research within the broader economic, social and political contexts of health care provision and practices (particularly in Canada). Through a post-colonial critique of psychiatry, clinical and counselling psychology, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and counselling, the course attempts to raise questions regarding the theory, practice and research with ethnic minority clients. The course also offers a critical examination of the concepts of multicultural, multiethnic, cross-cultural, inter-cultural and other nomenclatures, particularly assessing the epistemological and ontological histories and complexities in relation to psychological frames of thinking and feeling. Particular emphasis will be given to understanding the relationship of qualitative and quantitative research in this field. The course will also respond to significant developments within the wider context of 'discourses of the other', for example, feminist research methods, research and class, disability and sexual orientation will form part of the discussion in seminars. The course is appropriate for students considering a dissertation proposal in multicultural counselling and psychotherapy. A weekly seminar will focus on research methods and methodologies, the design and structure of the research, sampling procedures, ethical issues, empirical constraints and production of new knowledge/s. Students will review, analyse and redesign representative studies in multicultural counselling literature which will eventually lead to a doctoral thesis proposal.