This course provides the student with a better understanding of diverse cultures and subcultures, and counseling treatments specific to these. This will be done through increased offender awareness, offender knowledge and understanding of cultural differences, and the skilled application of communication techniques and processes for reducing barriers to effective cross-cultural aid strategies. Students will be provided with opportunities to learn culturally flexible correctional communication aids, review correction barriers that hinder the actualization of cultural flexibility, and examine the qualities and characteristics of the culturally competent correctional professional. There will be active participation in the process of developing culturally competent communication in the supervision and management of offenders.
Students can speak effectively in front of a group or as a part of a group.
Students can demonstrate effective listening skills through their ability to analyze and interpret verbal messages for content, context, and affect, as well as retain messages acquired from the listening process. Students are aware of cultural diversity and its implications. To recognize the importance of demographics and its role and meaning for corrections. To identify communication issues and concepts in cross-cultural counseling specific to offenders. To study and practice communication styles and their specific uses in correcting a correctional client s anti-social behavior.