Intercultural Care & Counselling: A Systems Perspective

This course introduces students to practices of care with an emphasis on self awareness, systems theories, assessment and interculturality in spiritual care. The first part of the course will focus on systems theories. Students will explore their own families and cultures of origin and their social identities as a means to Jearn the related theories and to develop self awareness (safe and effective use of self) for spiritual care practice. The second part of the course will relate systems and intercultural approaches to care in the face of grief and Joss, death and dying, suicide, trauma and crisis, aging and dementia while deepening students' understanding of the therapeutic relationship and assessment in spiritual care. This course is suitable for students preparing for work in spiritual care and psycho-spiritual therapy and for students preparing for leadership in congregational or social contexts.