Journal article
Clinical suggestions for honouring Indigenous identity for helpers, counsellors, and healers: The case of ‘Marsha’
Counselling, Psychotherapy, and Health, Vol.3(2), pp.89-104
2007
Abstract
As a discussion of clinical issues in counselling in an Indigenous and/or multicultural setting, this paper explores issues associated with the healing and integration of race, identity, and empowerment. The issues are highlighted by a case study of a 36 year old, female, lesbian, Indigenous Canadian, immigrant to Australia. A process of values clarification and identity-reframing is discussed through an exercise called 'Opening a Sacred Circle'. This process may be used in creating space for personal and social acknowledgment, healing, and transformation during a time when issues of reconciliation, social justice, and mobilisation of Indigenous peoples requires practical, culturally appropriate, flexible, and sensitive responses to issues faced in a 'post-colonial' environment.
Details
- Title
- Clinical suggestions for honouring Indigenous identity for helpers, counsellors, and healers: The case of ‘Marsha’
- Authors
- Randolf J Bowers (Author) - University of New England
- Publication details
- Counselling, Psychotherapy, and Health, Vol.3(2), pp.89-104
- Publisher
- Australian Counselling Association
- Date published
- 2007
- ISSN
- 1832-1135
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2007 Australian Counselling Association. Reproduced here with kind permission of the copyright holder.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449654402621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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