Counselling in Cultural Contexts: Identities and Social Justice

Description

This accessible practice-building reference establishes a clear social justice lens for providing culturally-responsive and ethical multicultural counseling for all clients. Rooted in the principles of Culture-Infused Counseling, the book’s practical framework spotlights the evolving therapeutic relationship and diverse approaches to working with clients’ personal and relational challenges, including at the community and system levels. Case studies illustrate interventions with clients across various identities from race, gender, and class to immigration status, sexuality, spirituality, and body size, emphasizing the importance of viewing client’s presenting concerns within the contexts of their lives. Chapters also model counselor self-awareness so readers can assess their strengths, identify their hidden assumptions, and evolve past basic cultural sensitivity to actively infusing social justice as an ethical stance in professional practice. Included in the chapters: · Culture-infused counseling, emphasizing context, identities, and social justice · Decolonizing and indigenous approaches · Social class awareness · Intersectionality of identities · Clients’ spiritual and religious beliefs · Weight bias as a social justice issue · Culturally responsive and socially just engagement in counselling women · Life-making in therapeutic work with transgender clients · Socially-just counseling for refugees · Multi-level systems approaches to interventions While Counseling in Cultural Contexts is geared toward a student/training audience, practicing professionals will also find the case study format of the book to be informative and stimulating. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Infusing Culture and Social Justice in Ethical Practices with All Clients (Nancy Arthur)....Pages 3-28 Culture-Infused Counselling: Contexts, Identities, and Social Justice (Nancy Arthur)....Pages 29-62 Front Matter ....Pages 63-63 Go Back to Your Trailer: Essential Social Class Awareness for Counsellors (Fisher Lavell)....Pages 65-91 Fragmented Faith and the Rediscovery of God: A Feminist Perspective (Judy Chew)....Pages 93-115 Culturally Responsive and Socially Just Engagement: An Emergent and Ongoing Process in Counselling Women (Ann Laverty, Mirjam Knapik)....Pages 117-139 The Weight of the World in Her Hands (Shelly Russell-Mayhew)....Pages 141-154 Stephen’s Story: A Culture-Infused Perspective of Life-Making in Therapeutic Work with Transgender Clients (Andrew Estefan, Robert Roughley)....Pages 155-180 Therapy as Ceremony: Decolonizing and Indigenizing Our Practice (Karlee D. Fellner)....Pages 181-201 Intersections of Gender and Refugee Experience: Through Azra’s Eyes (Ivana Đurašković)....Pages 203-226 Using a Feminist-Multicultural Lens When Counselling Adolescent Females: Intersecting Cultural Identities and Multiple Social Locations (Anusha Kassan)....Pages 227-247 The Relevance of Spirituality to Cultural Identity Reconstruction for African-Caribbean Immigrant Women (Sandra Dixon)....Pages 249-270 Intersectionality and International Student Identities in Transition (Nancy Arthur)....Pages 271-292 Indigenizing and Decolonizing Therapeutic Responses to Trauma-Related Dissociation (Riel Dupuis-Rossi, Vikki Reynolds)....Pages 293-315 Thinking Outside the Box: Integrating Culture, Identity, Academia, and Career/Life Planning with Aboriginal Women (Kathy Offet-Gartner)....Pages 317-340 Facilitating Economic, Psychological, and Social Acculturation and Adaptation: Socially Just Counselling for Refugees (Noorfarah Merali)....Pages 341-357 Refugee-Serving Multicultural Therapy Practicum: An Example of a Culture-Infused, Service-Based Training Program (Ben C. H. Kuo)....Pages 359-379 Front Matter ....Pages 381-381 Culture-Infused Counselling: Moving Forward with Applied Activism and Advocacy (Nancy Arthur)....Pages 383-406 Back Matter ....Pages 407-413