University Certificate in Counselling Women - Learning outcomes

As a result of completing this program, students should be able to

• Analyze the relationship of social location and identity, such as gender, race, class, sexuality, and disability, to mental health and wellbeing.
• Discern the political, structural, and interpersonal factors underlaying prejudice and discrimination and their impacts on mental health and wellbeing.
• Apply counselling theories and interventions from intersectional feminist and social justice perspectives.
• Evaluate diverse client’s psycho/social needs in order to inform appropriate and culturally responsive therapeutic practice.
• Apply feminist and social justice counselling principles to crisis intervention, community service, and a wide variety of helping professions
• Advocate for liberatory social change that challenges the psychology of oppression and supports the empowerment of marginalized groups.