Bridging the worlds of therapy and activism : intersections, tensions and affinities
Reynolds, Vikki
Bridging the worlds of therapy and activism : intersections, tensions and affinities Vikki Reynolds and Sekneh Hammond-Beckett - Dulwich Centre, 2012 - The International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work .
The International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, 2012, no.4: 57-61
In this brief interview Sekneh & Vikki reflect on the precarious but possible connections of social justice activism and therapy, particularly narrative therapy. They offer the usefulness
of a socially just orientation to therapeutic work in terms of the sustainability of therapists,
and as a resistance to burnout. They take a position for therapists to act as activists to work for socially just structural change. They suggest embracing activist traditions
of solidarity and building ‘solidarity teams’ to shoulder us up collectively to resist the structures of injustice that are rooted in capitalist and neo-liberal politics which are the context of people’s suffering and our work. (Authors' abstract). Record #6740
ADVOCACY
ETHICS
JUSTICE
SOCIAL ISSUES
SUPPORT SERVICES
THERAPY
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
WORKPLACE
INTERNATIONAL
Bridging the worlds of therapy and activism : intersections, tensions and affinities Vikki Reynolds and Sekneh Hammond-Beckett - Dulwich Centre, 2012 - The International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work .
The International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, 2012, no.4: 57-61
In this brief interview Sekneh & Vikki reflect on the precarious but possible connections of social justice activism and therapy, particularly narrative therapy. They offer the usefulness
of a socially just orientation to therapeutic work in terms of the sustainability of therapists,
and as a resistance to burnout. They take a position for therapists to act as activists to work for socially just structural change. They suggest embracing activist traditions
of solidarity and building ‘solidarity teams’ to shoulder us up collectively to resist the structures of injustice that are rooted in capitalist and neo-liberal politics which are the context of people’s suffering and our work. (Authors' abstract). Record #6740
ADVOCACY
ETHICS
JUSTICE
SOCIAL ISSUES
SUPPORT SERVICES
THERAPY
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
WORKPLACE
INTERNATIONAL