Posted on 11/14/2019 5:27:32 AM PST by karpov
About this book:
Multicultural counseling and psychology evolved as a response to the Eurocentrism prevalent in the Western healing professions and has been used to challenge the Eurocentric, patriarchal, and heteronormative constructs commonly embedded in counseling and psychology. Ironically, some of the practices and paradigms commonly associated with “multiculturalism” reinforce the very hegemonic practices and paradigms that multicultural counseling and psychology approaches were created to correct.
In Decolonizing "Multicultural" Counseling through Social Justice, counseling and psychology scholars and practitioners examine this paradox through a social justice lens by questioning and challenging the infrastructure of dominance in society, as well as by challenging ourselves as practitioners, scholars, and activists to rethink our commitments. The authors analyze the ways well-meaning clinicians might marginalize clients and contribute to structural inequities despite multicultural or cross-cultural training, and offer new frameworks and skills to replace the essentializing and stereotyping practices that are widespread in the field. By addressing the power imbalances embedded in key areas of multicultural theory and practice, contributors present innovative methods for revising research paradigms, professional education, and hands-on practice to reflect a commitment to equity and social justice. Together, the chapters in this book model transformative practice in the clinic, the schools, the community, and the discipline. Among the topics covered:
Rethinking racial identity development models. * Queering multicultural competence in counseling. * Developing a liberatory approach to trauma counseling. * Decolonizing psychological practice in the context of poverty. * Utilizing indigenous paradigms in counseling research. * Addressing racism through intersectionality. A mind-opening text for multicultural counseling and psychology courses as well as other foundational courses in counseling and psychology education, Decolonizing "Multicultural" Counseling through Social Justice challenges us to let go of simplistic approaches, however well-intended, and to embrace a more transformative approach to counseling and psychology practice and scholarship.
Multiculturalism
Another hate word against western civillization
I’m not even going to try and decide if I agree with the author’s point of view on this.
The language used by the writer is completely derived from Marxist analysis. It’s all hegemonic praxis and patriarchal infrastructure seen through a lens of distillation via Eurocentric and hermetic studies.
People talk like that when they are trying to hide the truth.
Actually, its a word that was coined because the other words for the exact same concept (segregation, balkanization, and tribalism) had all developed negative connotations.
The concept needed a shiny new package that wasn’t tarnished yet.
I agree. I don’t think “counseling” will be at all helpful if it’s focus is on the exact opposite of personal responsibility and accountability. They are just promoting victimhood.
Nobody has a perfect life. Everyone is dealt cards that they would rather not have. What matters is how you deal with them.
In short we will soon be forgiving multicultural ethnics for murder, rape, pedophilia, and brutality towards westerners because they are victims of our western oppression
So many professions are being turned into an intellectual wasteland, through Marxist cultural deconstruction and all its varients. Many professions no longer have any relevance in what their core purpose has been, as each of them have their prupose subverted to a political agenda.
Eurocentrism prevalent in the Western healing professions is bad because it fails to consider raping toddlers and eating parts albinos to naturally cure diseases and revitalize the body.
Eurocentric, patriarchal, heteronormative, multicultural, Decolonizing, social justice, yada, yada, yada ...
I want may language back!
The rot is from the top down.
One of the Most Liberal Groups in America
College administrators are off the scale in relation to the rest of the nation in terms of their ideological leanings, contends Samuel J. Abrams.
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2018/11/08/college-administrators-are-more-liberal-other-groups-including-faculty-members
They use lots of big words and hide their true meanings, just like the feminists.
Prolix prevaricating purveyors of a plethora of psychological propaganda.
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