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Culture-Infused Counselling: Moving Forward with Applied Activism and Advocacy

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Counselling in Cultural Contexts

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Beyond cultural sensitivity, culture-infused counselling requires intentional actions to address social inequities and to address social justice. Readers are encouraged to continue their lifelong learning about culture, cultural identities, social locations, and social justice. Professionals can work collaboratively to take an active stance against oppression and work towards reconciliation, social justice, and the future health and wellbeing of all people. Social justice is an ethical stance that requires consideration of historical oppression and current social conditions and a commitment to reducing inequities and fostering an inclusive society. Through counselling and through other professional roles, counsellors enact social justice through applied activism and advocacy to challenge systems through multiple levels of interventions.

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Arthur, N. (2018). Culture-Infused Counselling: Moving Forward with Applied Activism and Advocacy. In: Arthur, N. (eds) Counselling in Cultural Contexts. International and Cultural Psychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00090-5_17

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