PSYCH623 Poverty, Dislocation, & Stigma

This course explores the basic theories of dislocation and cultural identity, analyzing human phenomena of poverty and stigma, embedded in human psyche through painful experience such as war, colonization, and natural disasters in the global and local context. Also in this self-implicated study, students examine and deepen self knowledge on their own cultural identity (ies), values, and biases as it relates to the therapeutic process and their role as an MFT.