Cover Artwork By
Frank Dicksee
Format: Paperback
Size : 6 x 9
Pages: 108
ISBN: 0-595-30696-9
Published: Jan-2004 iUniverse, USA
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Book Description
"Social Awareness in
Counselling" is a critique of mainstream Counselling from three
alternative therapeutic orientations: feminist Counselling,
cross-cultural Counselling, and liberation psychology. It explores the
many areas in which mainstream Counselling focuses exclusively on the
individual while failing to explore wider social issues that often
greatly influence our values, behaviours and experiences. Issues such
as gender, class, sexual orientation, culture and ethnicity are rarely
considered. The social and personal oppression that cultural
stereotypes engender remain largely unacknowledged in mainstream
Counselling.
'‘Social Awareness in
Counselling" unearths Counselling research in both mainstream and
alternative Counselling orientations. The feminist Counselling model
addresses such issues as gender, race and class, and also emphasises
the need for awareness of power issues within the Counselling
relationship. Cross-cultural Counselling models state that Counselling
is largely based on western beliefs and values that are alien to
culturally-different clients. The theories of liberation psychology
stress the importance of facing the political, social and economic
roots of oppression that limit personal freedom and choice.
"Social Awareness in
Counselling" is an invaluable guide for counsellors, course directors,
and prospective clients. It clearly states the pitfalls of Counselling
while pointing the way forward towards a more egalitarian and socially
aware therapeutic relationship. |
