Helping beyond the 50-minute hour : therapists involved in meaningful social action /
"Slacktivism" is a term that has been coined to cynically describe the token efforts that people devote to some cause, without long-term or meaningful impact. We wear colored wristbands, pins, or ribbons proclaiming support for a particular organization. We might post something on social n...
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New York :
Routledge,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1: Re-visioning clinical practice. The power of transcendent empathy: empowering lower-caste girls in Nepal / Jeffrey A. Kottler ; The citizen-therapist and social change / William J. Doherty.
- Part 2: The dreamers: what change could be. When work is not enough: searching for greater satisfaction and meaning / Sari Gold ; Marginalized no more / Leah Brew ; A wannabe therapist's journey to make a difference / Josselyn Sheer ; Social Justice-The way less traveled / Henry Sibbing.
- Part 3: Community Action. Sacred advocacy: helping at-risk boys and girls find meaning in violent, unjust communities / Stan Bosch and Joseph M. Cervantes ; Real-life social action in the community / Byron Waller ; Walking the tightrope of change: building trust and effective practice in a diverse multi-stressed urban community / Gerald Monk ; Two roads leading to one / Dallas Stout and Debbie Stout ; Moving beyond the professional response to gender-based violence: community organizing with women survivors / Loretta Pyles ; I am your future, you and my past: reaching back to move forward / Selma de Leon-Yznaga / "Illumination of the human spirit": The evolution of an African-centered social justice counselor / Sharon Bethea ; When your liberation is tied up with mine: social justice work as a tool for resistance, empowerment, and nation building for African-descended peoples / Jamila Codrington ; No one gets left behind / Cyrus Marcellus Ellis ; Counselors without borders: community action in counseling / Fred Bemak.
- Part 4: Global Outreach. Life tasks in a lifetime / Tipawadee Emavardhana ; Counseling internationally: caring for the caregiver / Keith Edwards and Rebecca Rodriguez ; Feminist border crossings: our transnational partnership in peach and justice work / Kathryn L. Norsworthy and Ouyporn Khuankaew ; Bon Kouraj: learning courage through service / Chante DeLoach ; Kicking and screaming: my social action journey / Cirecie A. West-Olantunji ; Please do not forget me / Heather A. Guay.
- Part 5: Closure and reflection. Twenty intensely personal motives for involvement in social justice projects: saving the world or saving myself? / Jeffrey A. Kottler ; A life devoted to service / Jon Carlson ; Paying rent for our place in the world: a reflection on the personal meaning of this book and its stories / Matt Englar-Carlson.