This course explores how colonial legacies continue to influence counseling, counselor education, research, and assessment. Participants will learn practical strategies for incorporating culturally responsive assessment, community collaboration, Indigenous ways of knowing, intersectionality, critical self-reflection, and ethical accountability into their professional practice.

CE Hours Included: 1 Social and Cultural Foundations

Format: On-Demand Webinar (“Asynchronous”). View this course at your convenience and complete it at your own pace. You may pause, rewind, and fast-forward the video at any time. The course also includes a PowerPoint presentation and references. A post-course quiz is required to demonstrate learning and satisfy continuing education approval requirements.

Presented by: C. Peeper McDonald, Ph.D., LPC (GA), ACS, NCC

Target Audience: Counselors, Counselor Educators, Therapists, Social Workers, Clinical Supervisors, Researchers, and Other Mental Health Professionals

Instruction Level: Intermediate

Educational Objectives:

In this workshop, participants will learn how to:

Develop a critical understanding of the historical and contemporary effects of colonial legacies on counseling practices, research, and assessment methods.
Identify how positionality, personal biases, and dominant cultural assumptions can influence counseling, research, teaching, and assessment.
Implement cultural adaptations into assessment tools to make them more culturally relevant, respectful, inclusive, and non-pathologizing.
Apply community-centered approaches that prioritize collaboration, shared power, and the voices of the communities being served or studied.
Incorporate Indigenous knowledge systems, intersectionality, empowerment, advocacy, and ethical accountability into counseling and counselor education practices.

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