Therapy in Solidarity: The Ethical Imperative of Social Justice in Counselling Through Decolonizing and Queering your Practice
Therapy in Solidarity: The Ethical Imperative of Social Justice in Counselling Through Decolonizing and Queering your Practice
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2024-03-31
Authors
Randell, Nicole
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The integration of social justice principles into counselling practice is essential for promoting inclusivity, advocating for systemic change, and dismantling oppressive structures; however, there remains some contention around what implementing social justice in counselling practice means. This capstone project investigates the important relationship between social justice and counselling and aims to investigate how social justice manifests itself in counselling practice. While advocating for a deep integration of social justice principles into counselling practices, emphasizing the ethical obligation of counsellors to address systemic inequalities and advocate for their clients, this capstone explores the multifaceted ways in which social justice are shown through counselling practice. Through a lens of decolonization and queering, the project explores ways in which counsellors can move beyond conventional practices to actively engage in social justice efforts. By examining the manifestations of social justice in counselling and emphasizing the importance of being accomplices or co-conspirators in advocacy, this project aims to inspire counsellors to question the status quo and shed light on the transformative potential of incorporating social justice into therapeutic processes. By exploring the historical, theoretical,
and academic foundations of social justice in counselling, this project seeks to inspire counsellors to become agents of change in dismantling oppressive systems, advancing social equity, and understand the ethical imperative of implementing social justice principles into practice.
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social justice , solidarity , accomplice , co-conspirator , activism , advocacy , decolonizing , manifest , queering , collective liberation , wokeness or woke-culture , ethical practice , anti-oppression , counselling education , narrative therapy
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States , openAccess