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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.
Prevention and Outreach with Underserved Populations: Building Multisystemic Youth Development Programs for Urban Youth
Prevention and Outreach with Underserved Populations: Building Multisystemic Youth Development Programs for Urban Youth
Identifying and addressing the mental health needs of historically oppressed communities have become increasingly important in the counseling field over the past quarter century. Despite the endorsement of multicultural guidelines (American Psychological Association [APA], 2003) and multicultural counseling competencies (Roysircar, Arredondo, Fuertes, Ponterotto, & Toporek, 2003) by professional organizations, there has been some debate as to how adequately such policies will improve the scope of service provision to underserved communities (Constantine & Ladany, 2000; Vera & Speight, 2003).
The current multicultural guidelines and multicultural counseling competencies have been developed around the assumption that counselors' primary roles are psychotherapists and ...
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