Courses & Seminars

The UNC Clinical Psychology Department effectively integrates diversity into various courses and seminars.

• Courses in psychotherapy, assessment, and psychopathology specifically consider issues of social class, culture/race/ethnicity, and gender as they apply to the content of those courses.
• The program currently offers a course on Multiculturalism in Clinical Psychology in which the 3 components of multicultural training, awareness, knowledge, and skills, are applied to major areas of clinical psychology.
• First year orientation includes the opportunity to participate in a cultural sharing and group building exercise to introduce issues of culture.
• Our weekly sack lunch series offers additional training experiences in diversity issues. Topics in recent years have included:
  • Psychotherapy with gay and lesbian clients
  • Multi-cultural issues in psychotherapy and assessment
  • Working with the elderly o Working with the hearing impaired
  • Research with inter-racial couples
  • Research with rural African Americans
  • Consulting with rural populations
  • Understanding the experiences of transgender individuals
  • Working with Latinos
• The interdisciplinary Carolina Seminar on Behavioral Research with Minority Populations sponsors a monthly speaker series relevant to diversity training from a multidisciplinary perspective (Dr. Vonnie McLoyd, sponsor).
• The faculty in the Clinical Psychology program has strong interests in and commitment to furthering their own education and training with respect to diversity issues. In Spring 2002, the faculty participated in a weekend retreat devoted exclusively to multiculturalism. Faculty also participate in ongoing training throughout the academic year.
• For several years, the Clinical Psychology Spanish Conversation Group has met weekly to provide graduate students and faculty with an opportunity to improve their Spanish-language skills. This group is also devoted to developing opportunities for faculty and students to increase their ability to provide clinical services to and conduct research with the Triangle's fast-growing Latino population. See also El Grupo.