ERIC Number: EJ1400701
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
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ISSN: ISSN-0306-9885
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Practical Applications of a Social Justice Agenda in Counselling and Psychotherapy: The Relational Equality in Education Framework (REEF)
Fitzgibbon, Anna; Winter, Laura Anne
British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, v51 n5 p665-674 2023
Recently there has been an increasing focus on the social justice agenda in counselling and psychotherapy. To ensure that this does not merely function as rhetoric, therapists must consider how to translate their social justice values into action. In this paper we aim to extend current understandings of social justice by foregrounding an emphasis on relational equality and power. We consider the importance of educational settings as a site of social justice action for therapists, and set out the Relational Equality in Education Framework as an illustration of how therapists might work to enhance relational equality in education on micro, meso and macro levels. Such efforts would ensure the social justice work of therapists takes an important shift from rhetoric to action.
Descriptors: Social Justice, Counseling, Psychotherapy, Power Structure, Equal Education, Allied Health Personnel
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Language: English
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