Building a Counseling Psychology of Liberation: The Path Behind Us, Under Us, and Before Us

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (8) ◽  
pp. 1109-1130
Author(s):  
Anneliese Singh
Keyword(s):  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Psychology Of Liberation ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

In this 2020 SCP Presidential Address amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and global uprisings against anti-Black racism, Anneliese Singh reflects on the potentialities of liberation for all counseling psychologists in every setting in which they labor. In doing so, she invites the embodiment and practices of liberation as a key value of counseling psychology.

It Takes a Village: Engaging With Solidarity in Practice, Anti-Black Racism Work, Advocacy, and Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 001100002110395
Author(s):  
Mary O’Leary Wiley
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Systemic Racism ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

This 2021 presidential address focuses on Mary O'Leary Wiley's theme for 2020-2021, It Takes a Village: Engaging with Solidarity in Practice, Anti-Black Racism Work, Advocacy, and Education. She traces the threads that led to her presidential vision in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and heightened awareness of systemic racism, and details the contributions of many Society of Counseling Psychology members who contributed to our progress throughout the year. She discusses ways that counseling psychologists practice in ways that are different from many other psychologists in that they emphasize the environmental and prevention contexts, which lay the intellectual groundwork for psychologists engaging in social justice initiatives.

White Supremacy and Counseling Psychology: A Critical–Conceptual Framework

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 478-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick R. Grzanka ◽  
Kirsten A. Gonzalez ◽  
Lisa B. Spanierman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
The United States ◽  
Helping Professions ◽  
White Clients ◽  
Racial Progress ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

The mainstreaming of White nationalism in the United States and worldwide suggests an urgent need for counseling psychologists to take stock of what tools they have (and do not have) to combat White supremacy. We review the rise of social justice issues in the field of counseling psychology and allied helping professions and point to the limits of existing paradigms to address the challenge of White supremacy. We introduce transnationalism as an important theoretical perspective with which to conceptualize global racisms, and identify White racial affect, intersectionality, and allyship as three key domains of antiracist action research. Finally, we suggest three steps for sharpening counseling psychologists’ approaches to social justice: rejecting racial progress narratives, engaging in social justice-oriented practice with White clients, and centering White supremacy as a key problem for the field of counseling psychology and allied helping professions.

Early Professionals in Counseling Psychology

1992 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Edward Watkins
Keyword(s):  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Role Overload ◽  
Academic Counseling ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

This article considers some of the issues and concerns that confront academic counseling psychologists during the early professional years (6 to 10 years post-Ph.D.). Tenure, competency, role overload/burnout, and mobility issues are briefly discussed. Where appropriate, strategies or coping techniques for dealing with these issues and concerns are presented.

Achieving Ethnic Parity in Counseling Psychology

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald R. Atkinson ◽  
Michael T. Brown ◽  
J. Manuel Casas ◽  
Nolan W. S. Zane
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Minority Students ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Psychology Programs ◽  
Ethnic Minority Students ◽  
The Future ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

With the increasing diversification of the population comes an increased need for ethnic minority psychologists. Most counseling psychology programs will have to dramatically increase the numbers of ethnic minority students they enroll and faculty they hire to achieve parity and meet the need for more ethnic minority counseling psychologists in the future. This article describes the preconditions and strategies needed to recruit, to select, and to support ethnic minority students and faculty in counseling psychology programs.

The Benefits and Challenges of Becoming Cross-Culturally Competent Counseling Psychologists

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Paul Heppner
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
The United States ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Culturally Competent ◽  
Mental Health Needs ◽  
Different Populations ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

The central thesis of this article is that focusing on cross-cultural competence will enhance both the science and the practice of counseling psychology. Developing cross-cultural competence is a lifelong journey, replete with many joys and challenges, that will (a) increase the sophistication of our research, (b) expand the utility and generalizability of the knowledge bases in counseling psychology, (c) promote a deeper realization that counseling occurs in a cultural context, and (d) increase not only counseling effectiveness but also the profession’s ability to address diverse mental health needs across different populations around the globe. In the future, (a) counseling psychologists will be expected to have an array of cross-cultural competencies, which emphasizes the need to systematically train students to acquire such competencies, and (b) counseling psychology will no longer be defined as counseling psychology within the United States, but rather, the parameters of counseling psychology will cross many countries and many cultures.

New and Early Professionals in Counseling Psychology

1992 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn E. Good
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Psychology Graduate Students ◽  
Employment Setting ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

The type of employment setting chosen by counseling psychologists has been in flux during recent years. This issue of The Counseling Psychologist examines the issues encountered by new and early counseling psychologists employed in five settings. The settings examined are those that counseling psychology graduate students indicate they most prefer for their initial employment. In this issue, the authors, all of whom are new and early professionals, responded to the same set of stimulus questions about the professional and personal issues they encountered. This article provides an overview of the issues faced by new and early counseling psychologists, regardless of their employment setting.

Social Justice and International Competencies: Positioning Counseling Psychologists for the Global Era

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 608-629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiachih DC Wang ◽  
Ayşe Çiftçi
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Global Era ◽  
Systemic Process ◽  
The Cross ◽  
International Social ◽  
Cross National ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

In this article, we attempt to draw a connection between social justice and international competencies within counseling psychology. Built on Constantine et al.’s general social justice competencies as well as the cross-national cultural competences model and dynamic-systemic-process model of international competencies, nine international social justice competencies are outlined and their relevance in international contexts is highlighted. In addition, three specific mindsets for the enhancement of international social justice work by U.S.-based counseling psychologists are discussed. We believe that by promoting the integration of social justice and international competencies, future counseling psychologists will be better prepared for the global era.

Historical Antecedents: Counseling Psychology and the Fulbright Program

2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula T. McWhirter ◽  
J. Jeffries McWhirter
Keyword(s):  
Host Country ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Collective Impact ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Archival Data ◽  
International Service ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Antecedents ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

The purpose of this research is to develop a comprehensive, field-specific directory of counseling psychologists who have served as Fulbright scholars. First, the authors provide a brief history of the development and mission of the Fulbright program, followed by a review of prominent Fulbright grants. Next, they focus on the Fulbright Senior Scholars program. They detail the method used to explore related archival data and present a list generated from those data to include researchers and educators who professionally identify as counseling psychologists. Host country and dates of international service under the auspices of the Fulbright scholarship are included. Ultimately, the authors seek to provide documentation and stimulate future research into the collective impact of individual Fulbright scholars on counseling psychology as a discipline.

Technologically Enriched and Boundaryless Lives

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 847-857 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul A. Gore ◽  
Wade C. Leuwerke ◽  
John D. Krumboltz
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Vocational Psychology ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Life Roles ◽  
Do So ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

Computers and other communication technologies have irrevocably changed the nature of work, the workforce, and interpersonal relationships. This article suggests that these changes have resulted in a blurring of the distinction between life roles and an increase in feelings of meaningless and isolation. The authors argue that the dissolution of boundaries between life roles and the emotional sequelae of the digitization of our culture support a paradigm that reintegrates counseling and vocational psychology. Future counseling psychologists will be better equipped to provide services to clients whose lives are enriched and complicated by technology only if counseling psychology educators are able to provide them with the knowledge and skills to do so.

Gender and Racial Issues for New Counseling Psychologists in Academia

1992 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadya A. Fouad ◽  
Robert T. Carter
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
New Professionals ◽  
New Faculty ◽  
Racial Issues ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Racial Ethnic ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

Counseling psychology has begun to focus on the concerns of new professionals, but it has not addressed the concerns of women or visible racial/ethnic group members (i.e., Black, Hispanic, Native American, or Asian American) as new counseling psychologists in academia. This article addresses their unique concerns and makes recommendations for new faculty members as well as for the departments that hire them. The article focuses on issues (a) for new professors in counseling psychology, (b) shared by women and visible racial/ethnic group members, and (c) experienced differently by women and visible racial/ethnic group members.

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