Decolonizing “Multicultural” Counseling through Social Justice

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Goodman, Rachael D. (Editor), Gorski, Paul C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: International and Cultural Psychology,
• Subjects: Psychology.; Psychotherapy.; Counseling.; Community psychology.; Environmental psychology.; Cross-cultural psychology.; Cross Cultural Psychology.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.; Community and Environmental Psychology.

Multicultural counseling and psychology evolved as a response to the Eurocentrism prevalent in the Western healing professions and has been used to challenge the Eurocentric, patriarchal, and heteronormative constructs commonly embedded in counseling and psychology.  Ironically, some of the practice...