Handbook for Social Justice in Counseling Psychology: Leadership, Vision, and Action
Handbook for Social Justice in Counseling Psychology: Leadership, Vision, and Action
The Handbook for Social Justice in Counseling Psychology: Leadership, Vision, and Action provides counseling psychology students, educators, researchers, and practitioners with a conceptual “road map” of social justice and social action that they can integrate into their professional identity, role, and function. It presents historical, theoretical, and ethical foundations followed by exemplary models of social justice and action work performed by counseling psychologists from interdisciplinary collaborations. The examples in this Handbook explore a wide range of settings with diverse issues and reflect a variety of actions.
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W Boudville said,
Wrote on January 19, 2011 @ 3:43 pm
difficult professional topics,
Within the United States, this book brings together various ideas for social justice that are likely to be encountered by counseling practitioners. There is a broad scope of topics, that in its own way, reflects the diversity of the nation and of its problems.
So what are some of these problems? One addresses wellness in schools. Mostly perhaps about the physical well being of students. Then there is outreach to what are termed underserved populations. Mostly urban youths. They might have trouble accessing traditional mental health services. In part, possibly due to limited English skills.
Another topic is college women who have disablities. They often have trouble getting married. While this is not a preferred option for some women, for many others it is, especially as a social marker of status. So counseling is often needed at the college level for disabled women.
Homeless mothers are another topic. Here, the difficulty of finding safe shelter and of finding and holding down a job are compounded by trying to retain custody of a child. Especially when well meaning government agencies might try to take the child away. A very difficult and challenging situation for a counselor.
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