Social Justice and Counseling: Discourse in Practice

Social Justice and Counseling represents the intersection between therapy, counseling, and social justice. The international roster of contributing researchers and practitioners demonstrate how social justice unfolds, utterance by utterance, in conversations that attend to social inequities, power imbalances, systemic discrimination, and more. Beginning with a critical interrogation of the concept of social justice itself, subsequent sections cover training and supervising from a social justice perspective, accessing local knowledge to privilege client voices, justice and gender, and anti-pathologizing and the politics of practice. Each chapter concludes with reflection questions for readers to engage experientially in what authors have offered. Students and practitioners alike will benefit from the postmodern, multicultural perspectives that underline each chapter.

Cristelle Audet, PhD, is an associate professor in counseling psychology at the University of Ottawa. She is past president of the Social Justice Chapter of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA) and has been involved with CCPA’s Ethics Committee since 2010. Dr. Audet has also authored a chapter on social justice for the Handbook of Counselling and Psychotherapy in Canada (2016).

David Paré, PhD, is a registered psychologist and a full professor in counseling psychology at the University of Ottawa. In addition, Dr. Paré is director of the Glebe Institute, A Centre for Constructive and Collaborative Practice in Ottawa. He is the author of The Practice of Collaborative Counselling and Psychotherapy (2013), and co-editor of Collaborative Practice in Psychology and Therapy (2004) and Furthering Talk: Advances in the Discursive Therapies (2004).