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Counselling in Cultural Contexts

Identities and Social Justice

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Overview

  • Contributions by experienced practitioners
  • Uses a social justice perspective
  • Takes a practice-advocate-scientist approach
  • Focuses on the application of theory and research

Part of the book series: International and Cultural Psychology (ICUP)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Foundational Concepts for Counselling in Cultural Contexts

  2. Culture-Infused Counselling: Case Studies of Contexts, Identities, and Social Justice

  3. Future Directions

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About this book

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 inthe 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.     

Editors and Affiliations

  • Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

    Nancy Arthur

About the editor

Dr. Nancy Arthur is a Professor and former Canada Research Chair, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Dr. Arthur has written extensively in the field of multicultural counselling and co-developed the model of Culture-Infused Counselling, also adapted for use in career counselling. Dr. Arthur is a registered psychologist and elected Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association and currently serves as Vice-President of the International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance. Dr. Arthur’s research interests focus on professional education for diversity and social justice, and international learning and employment transitions.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Counselling in Cultural Contexts

  • Book Subtitle: Identities and Social Justice

  • Editors: Nancy Arthur

  • Series Title: International and Cultural Psychology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00090-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-00089-9Published: 22 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-00090-5Published: 11 January 2019

  • Series ISSN: 1571-5507

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-7984

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 413

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Cross Cultural Psychology

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