This event is not sponsored by the alumni association and does not fall under the benefits of founding membership status.

When: May 20-21, 9am-5:30pm

*Only portions of this course will qualify for CE credit. Description and Learning Objectives reflect content of CE portions:

May 20, 9am –Noon

May 21 2pm – 5:30pm

*Remaining portions of the course will discuss missions and cross-cultural counseling from a Christian worldview. Registration is for the entire course. Only CE Portions are required.

Where: Richmont Graduate University, 1900 The Exchange SE, Building 100, Atlanta, GA 30339

Continuing Education: 6 NBCC CE Clock Hours Awarded. Partial Attendance is not awarded

Fee: $150

Registration: Click here. 

Presenter: Eniabitobi Kuyinu, Ph.D.

Dr. Eniabitobi is an Assistant Professor of Counseling at Richmont Graduate University. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor. She received her Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision from Mercer University Atlanta, her M.A. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Abilene Christian University, a BA in Theology from Life Theological Seminary in Lagos, Nigeria and a BSc in Microbiology from the University of Benin in Nigeria. She also earned her certificate in Christian Sex Therapy at Richmont and a certificate in Biofeedback from STEN Corporation. Her area of interest include the use of expressive art in therapy and she has training in play therapy and sand tray therapy; sexual pain disorder in women; use of biofeedback in treating anxiety, PTSD, and sexual trauma from childhood sexual abuse and sex trafficking; psychosomatic disorders . She is also particularly interested in Missions and the indigenization of counseling cross-culturally as a tool of cross-cultural missions. She has hosted different groups and individuals on short-term mission trips to Nigeria, West Africa. She is deeply involved in mission work, and pioneered a mission field in Nigeria to include a Church, School and Medical Outreach. She has conducted series of counseling training in Lagos, Nigeria with clergies, lay counselors and school counselors.

Topic: This intermediate level seminar will provide an introductory overview of the set of attitudes and behaviors indicative of the ability to establish, maintain and successfully conclude a helping relationship with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds locally and internationally. Participants will be exposed to the cultural worldview of individuals living in different regions of the world. The seminar will challenge participants to develop a culture-sensitive counseling theory and practice consistent with international work.

Learning Objectives: As a result of attending this seminar, participants will be able to:

• Define and examine cross-cultural counseling, and its development.
• Appraise individual beliefs, personal biases, and judgments related to international cultures and traditions in relation to counseling services.
• Explain the distinctions between counseling within and outside the US.
• Describe the link to cross-cultural servanthood with cross-cultural counseling.
• Evaluate counseling approaches in non-western world and Internationalization of the counseling profession.
• Summarize, the theories of universality, cultural differences and uniqueness in its application to cross-cultural counseling.
• Examine the process of developing cross cultural collaboration.
• Evaluate the provision of counseling services in specific countries outside the US.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the indigenization of counseling internationally to ensure that theories, practices, and systems are anchored in the local culture.

Basic Agenda:

*CE portions are in BOLD and marked with an asterisk. Remaining portions DO NOT qualify for CE credit.

For questions, please contact Autumn Stephenson at astephenson@richmont.edu

Refunds must be requested prior to May 18, 2016

Richmont Graduate University has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 4534. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Richmont Graduate University is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.