News Update:
NEW: 7th Critical Multicultural Counselling & Psychotherapy Conference: Integrating Asian Healing Traditions into Mental Health Care.
June 1st & 2nd, 2012, OISE, University of Toronto. Visit 2012 Conference Page.
Complete: Traditional Healers Network Presents: A presentation on Traditional African Healing and Medicine. (Presentation will be followed by a general meeting on the Network)
Date: Sat. Feb 4th, 2 p.m.-4 p.m.
Please RSVP to Martha Ocampo: (416) 787-3007 ext 224, or email martha@acrossboundaries.ca
Location: Across Boundaries, 51 Clarkson Ave. (3 blocks north of Eglinton Ave. W on Caledonia). Click here for Poster
Completed: January 2012 - Christ University, Bangalore, India. Second International Conference on Counselling, Psychotherapy and Wellness. For Pictures and a review of the conference click here!
Completed: Thank you for making the CDCP Book Drive for Montfort Collage, Bangalore India, a success. We collected over 500 Counselling and Mental Health books! View the poster (pdf).
The Centre for Diversity in Counselling and Psychotherapy is an interdisciplinary centre dedicated to research and development of multicultural and diversity issues in counselling and psychotherapy, focusing particularly on the stigmatized social identities of gender, race, sexual orientations, class, disabilities, religion, and age.
One of the key objectives of the centre is to facilitate research and scholarship on the integration and intersection of various marginalised identities so that counselling and psychotherapy can be conducted through a paradigm of multiple identities irrespective of particular counselling approaches. The centre is well positioned to undertake this mission as the majority of the faculty are already undertaking research and teaching in the various areas of diversity, and this expertise forms the basis for further research through funded and non-funded projects.
The interdisciplinary nature of the centre and the engagement of faculty collaboration promote a rich environment and a creative clinical niche within which graduate students can be nurtured. This exposure to discourses of cultural differences juxtaposed with a variety of holistic approaches to psychotherapy forms a critical base for the study of diversity in counselling.