Digital Storytelling Methodologies: Recommendations for a Participatory Approach to Engaging Underrepresented Communities in Counseling Psychology Research

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jillian Fish ◽  
Moin Syed
Keyword(s):  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Psychology Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Social Justice Advocacy ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Five Phases ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

While counseling psychologists made substantial proposals to advance qualitative research since the special issue on related-methods was published 15-years ago (Haverkamp et al., 2005), the field continues to demonstrate an overreliance on quantitative methods. Though important for producing knowledge we can depend on, excessive use of these methods poses a barrier for counseling psychologists to address the needs of the communities that are at the core of our discipline’s values – those who are marginalized and underserved in society. In alignment with our values of social justice, advocacy, and empowerment, we propose counseling psychologists adopt a methodology within a critical paradigm to better address issues of inequality and inequity when working with underrepresented communities, such as digital storytelling. Rooted in a movement to increase access to art for marginalized communities in the 1970s and 80s, digital storytelling is an arts-based research methodology that captures first-person narrated accounts of peoples’ lives through the use of stories, photos, and videos, and empowers communities to be a part of research to create social change. We provide recommendations for using digital storytelling in counseling psychology research as outlined through five phases, including 1) digital storytelling’s critical paradigm, 2) project development, 3) implementation, 4) data analysis, and 5) dissemination. While doing so, we draw on examples from two digital storytelling projects we are familiar with, Immigrant Stories and OrigiNatives, providing a framework for a digital frontier in counseling psychology research.

Introduction to the Special Issue: Integration of Practice, Advocacy, and Research in Counseling Psychology

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (7) ◽  
pp. 946-957
Author(s):  
Shavonne Moore-Lobban ◽  
Anneliese A. Singh ◽  
Mary O’Leary Wiley
Keyword(s):  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

In this article, we introduce the special issue of The Counseling Psychologist on the integration of practice, advocacy, and research in counseling psychology. This special issue was driven by Dr. Shavonne Moore-Lobban’s project as a member of the Society for Counseling Psychology Leadership Collaborative. The aim of the special issue is to highlight the unique practice, advocacy, and research contributions of practitioners, and specifically focus on the integration of the three roles of everyday counseling psychologists. There are six practitioner-led manuscripts that strengthen a focus within counseling psychology of the integration across the three roles, and through the diverse lens of counseling psychologists as therapists, supervisors, educators, researchers, program developers, and advocates. The development of this special issue is reviewed. We provide a brief summary of the manuscripts and discuss implications for continued integration.

Counseling Psychology and Neuropsychology

1992 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 549-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul C. Larson ◽  
Albert A. Agresti
Keyword(s):  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Professional Responsibilities ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Traditional Counseling ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

This article introduces a special issue of The Counseling Psychologist on the increasing involvement of counseling psychologists in neuropsychology. The rationale for this special issue is based on the dual premises that preparing counseling psychologists in neuropsychology is consistent with the historical emphases of the specialty and that changing professional responsibilities require the acquisition of new knowledge and skills to enable counseling psychologists to continue their involvement in traditional settings and clinical activities. The experience of counseling psychologists actively involved in providing neuropsychological services within traditional counseling psychology employment settings and clinical actvities leads them to argue that to meet changing professional responsibilities and expectations counseling psychologists need to develop minimal competency in neuropsychology.

Implementing Social Change: A Qualitative Analysis of Counseling Psychologists’ Engagement in Advocacy

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saliha Kozan ◽  
David L. Blustein
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Doctoral Programs ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Justice Advocacy ◽  
Social Justice Orientation ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Psychology Training Programs ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

In recent years, many counseling psychology training programs in the United States have adopted social justice principles into training. Although previous studies have provided thought-provoking discussions on social justice advocacy, they mostly reflected the voices of psychologists in academia; therefore, the advocacy work of practitioners has been neglected. In order to explore the advocacy experiences of counseling psychologists in practice, we utilized qualitative content analysis to analyze semistructured interviews with 11 practitioners who were trained in social justice-oriented counseling psychology doctoral programs. The findings were clustered under three domains: (a) participants’ development of a social justice orientation, (b) different ways of implementing advocacy in practice, and (c) positioning advocacy in psychology. The interviews depicted resources and challenges with regard to integrating advocacy into practice indicating that counseling psychologists continue to struggle with systemic barriers that limit their advocacy actions. We discuss implications for research, practice, and training in counseling psychology.

A Call to Action

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (8) ◽  
pp. 1193-1202 ◽  
Author(s):  
William D. Parham
Keyword(s):  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Political Advocacy ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

The ascendance of large-scale disasters, catastrophes, and traumas as a concentrated focus of academic inquiry in counseling psychology is timely, and this special issue and subsequent investigations represent welcome areas of scholarship. The observations and comments herein salute the authors for responding to a post-Katrina discovery by counseling psychology of the heretofore localized and less than systematic responses to large-scale disasters, catastrophes, and traumas. Extensions to and invited elaborations on the collective observations of this team of authors are offered for consideration. This article also doubles as an invitation to counseling psychologists to put into action programs, procedures, policies, and political advocacy aimed at tapping and sustaining the hope and resilience of national and international communities forced to reconcile sudden and life-changing devastation.

Future Shock: Counseling Psychology in a VUCA World

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (7) ◽  
pp. 1048-1058 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth E. Fassinger ◽  
Sandra L. Shullman ◽  
Lydia P. Buki
Keyword(s):  
Future Study ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
The State ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

This article represents the conclusion of our special two-part issue of The Counseling Psychologist focused on leadership in counseling psychology. In this article, we reflect upon the state of leadership in counseling psychology as captured in the articles in this special issue. First, we explain the concept of a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world and why it is important to considerations of leadership by counseling psychologists. Next, we comment on each of the articles that comprise this two-part special issue, noting their strengths, relevance to current knowledge about and concepts of leadership, and questions that remain unanswered and thus ripe for further study. We conclude with recommendations for leadership-related efforts in counseling psychology as a field. It is our hope that this brief critique provides directions for future study and action regarding leadership in counseling psychology.

Language—AND—Social Psychology: Epilogue

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 172-178
Author(s):  
Jake Harwood ◽  
Karen Tracy
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Psychology Research ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
40Th Anniversary ◽  
Key Terms

This Epilogue discusses the papers in the Special Issue ( JLSP 40th Anniversary) in terms of the broader field of language and social psychology. It reflects on the key terms (“language” and “social psychology”) in terms of how they intersect and the relative emphasis on each in work published in JLSP. We also present an argument for increasing the consideration of context in language and social psychology research, and we distinguish between a desire to generalize versus universalize our knowledge about language and social psychological processes.

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.

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