Online Multi Cultural Awareness Course
Multi Cultural Awareness
- Help Break down cultural barriers
- Extend your "people skills", as a counsellor, manager, business owner, etc
- Work in a "helping profession" -welfare, immigration, international relations, etc
Cultural diversity refers to the differences between human communities based on differences in their ideologies, values, beliefs, norms, customs, meanings and ways of life – in other words, differences based on cultural differences. These differences are expressed and exemplified in social practices, attitudes and values, family interactions and expectations, values concerning education, ways of defining and treating health (physical and mental), business and management behaviours and practices, political practices and our interpersonal relations. This course will develop your sensitivity to culture, diversity and multicultural societies, and improve your capacity to interact with people on multicultural issues.
Successful completion of this course/module will develop your understanding of appropriate practices and procedures within Multicultural Awareness.
There are 8 lessons in this course:
- Cultural Diversity
- Introduction
- Defining culture
- Elements of culture
- Societal structures and processes
- Subcultures
- Key areas of cultural diversity
- Cultural behaviour
- Values
- Social discourse
- Ideology
- Expectations
- Problems ith culture
- Cultural Self-Awareness
- Introduction
- Defining cultural self
- Environmental influences
- Family or social group
- Definitions of self
- Psychological influences
- Human nature
- Personal autonomy
- Socio economic and political influences
- Emphasis or minimisation of cultural diversity
- Code switching
- Physical environmental influences
- Prejudice and Racism
- Introduction
- Ingroups or outgroups
- Ethnocentrism
- What is prejudice
- Functions of prejudice
- How we measure prejudice
- Theoretical perspectives on prejudice
- Stereotypes
- Functions of stereotypes
- Dangers of using stereotypes
- Discrimination
- Social discrimination
- Racism
- Institutional or structural racism
- Perception
- Perceptual change
- Cognitive dissonance
- Perceptual defence
- Reducing prejudice
- Changing stereotypes
- Developing cultural sensitivity
- Belonging to a dominant culture
- Working with Culturally Different Clients
- Introduction
- Communicating across cultures
- Principles of communication
- Cultural differences
- Communicating intimate information
- The culturally skilled worker
- Conformity
- Factors affecting conformity
- Barriers to Effective Multi-Cultural Relationships
- Abnormality
- The counsellors culture
- The clients culture
- Individual differences
- Cross cultural communication hurdles
- Culture shock
- Non verbal communication
- Developing trust
- Formal judgements
- Culture and child development
- Coping with change
- Developing Cultural Competence
- Introduction
- Culturally competent service delivery
- Culturally appropriate service
- Culturally accessible service
- Culturally acceptable service
- Training for cultural change
- Cross culture counselling in disaster situations
- The role of family
- Working with other cultures
- Multicultural Mental Health Issues
- Introduction
- Problems with cultural difference in psychology
- Cultural influences on mental health
- Culture bound syndromes
- Trance and possession disorder
- Factors affecting grief and bereavement: social, psychological and cultural influences
- Shortcomings of Contemporary Counselling Theories and Future Developments
- Introduction
- Culture shock
- Stages in cultural shock and adjustment
- Post traumatic stress disorder
- Treatments for culture distress
- Successful intercultural adjustment
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.
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