Cultural Exposure as a Creative Experiential Learning Intervention. Issue 1 (2nd January 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ramirez, Stephanie
• Is Part Of: Journal of creativity in mental health. Volume 18:Issue 1(2023)
• Page Start: 118
• Page End: 133
• Publication Date: 2023-01-02
• Subjects: Experiential learning -- creativity in counseling -- cultural immersion -- Latinx -- cultural responsiveness -- Counselor Educators; Psychotherapy -- Periodicals; Arts -- Therapeutic use -- Periodicals; Cultural psychiatry -- Periodicals; Counseling -- Periodicals; Counseling -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 616.89165
• DOI: 10.1080/15401383.2021.1949420
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1540-1383

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Counselor education programs often use cultural immersion as a creative pedagogical approach to foster cultural responsiveness. This form of experiential learning can instill and deepen multicultural and social justice counseling competencies. The purpose of this article is to highlight the potential of a domestic immersion experience as a creative experiential learning intervention by outlining one counselor education program's experience using a brief cultural immersion trip over the course of three years. The author highlights the importance of using experiential learning to instill cultural responsiveness, describes the cultural immersion trip, and discusses applications for counselor education programs seeking to implement a cultural immersion experience.