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.
NEW: Traditional Healing Network Presents: Traditional African Healing and Medicine.This presentation is opened to all who are interested in Traditional Healing.
Date: Sat. Feb 4th, 2 p.m.- 4p.m.
Location: Across Boundaries, 51 Clarkson Ave. (3 blocks north of Eglinton Ave. W on Caledonia).Click here to download poster for more details.
January 2012 - Christ University, Bangalore, India. Second International Conference on Counselling, Psychotherapy and Wellness. Go to Upcoming Conferences.
Thank you for making the CDCP Book Drive for Montfort Collage, Bangalore India, a success. We collected over 500 Counselling and Mental Health related 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.