Mental Health Intercultural Experience - Mexico

This interdisciplinary immersion experience aims to fill the experiential training gap in mental health fields by exposing participating students to intercultural environments that present components of multiculturalism, social justice, advocacy, and cultural humility within counseling and other mental health professions. Students will visit diverse environments within Mexico City and Puebla to expand their understanding of Latinx people, the Latinx experience, and migration factors. Students will explore the historical, cultural, and sociopolitical context of mental health professions in Mexico and the impact of these services on the understanding of mental health among Latinx people. This intercultural experience is designed to encourage students to explore and reflect on their own cultural self-awareness and cross-cultural skills by facilitating an understanding of the cultural contexts and the worldviews of others. Additionally, reflective activities will be provided to assist students in exploring concepts of privilege and oppression on a personal and systemic level to prepare students to provide more culturally responsive interventions that are inclusive, anti-classist, and anti-racist.