1. Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions, 9th Edition
by Gerald Corey, Marianne Schneider Corey, Cindy Corey, and Patrick Callanan
with Michelle Muratori, Johns Hopkins University
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2. Community and Social Justice Perspectives
Chapter 13
Community and Social Justice Perspectives
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3. Comprehensive Community Counseling Programs
Direct community services:
Preventive education
Indirect community service:
Influencing policymakers
Direct client services:
Focuses on outreach activities
Indirect client services:
Client advocacy
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4. Social Justice Perspective
Rests on the assumption that all people have a right to equitable treatment and a fair allocation of societal resources, including decision making
Some of the ethics codes refer to the role of social justice advocacy as an ethical mandate.
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5. Social Justice Perspective
The goal of counseling is to promote the empowerment of people who are marginalized and oppressed in our society.
Courage in dealing with fear is a cornerstone of doing multicultural social justice work.
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6. Social Justice Perspective
Referred to as a fifth force that entails a paradigm shift beyond the individual
Although not all counselors will have the time or energy to effect major institutional change, all have the capability of working toward some kind of social change.
It is necessary to acquire a set of social justice and advocacy competencies.
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7. Alternative Counselor Roles
Change agent
Consultant
Adviser
Advocate
Facilitator of indigenous support systems
Facilitator of indigenous healing systems
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8. Community Counseling Practitioner
Duties involve:
Ability to support community needs
Develop partnerships in creation and delivery of services
Promote community organization and development of activities
Outreach
Develop strategies to empower the community
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9. Community Counseling Practitioner
Duties involve:
Influence policymakers
Consult with community agencies
Evaluate human services programs
Advocate and assist with initiatives
Develop and build community assets
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10. Relationships Between Counselor and the Agency
Counselors who are dissatisfied with an agency or the system may decide to:
Subvert it any way they can
Conform to institutional policies out of fear
Make compromises between institutional demands and personal requirements
Leave the agency
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