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Social Justice Informed Therapeutic Practice: Relational, ethical, transformative and politically-informed

In our recent book, The Handbook of Social Justice in Psychological Therapies, we bring together authors from across counselling, clinical and educational psychology, counselling and psychotherapy, people with lived experience of the topics, and participatory action researchers. We try to rise to current professional and societal challenges and provide contributions on both theoretical understandings and how we might enact our social justice values both inside and outside of the therapy room.

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Quality Improvement in Healthcare – Reflections from the Authors

Quality improvement (QI) has been the core of much of Dr. Maria Kordowicz and Niroshan Siriwardena’s work both as practitioners and researchers. They wanted to write an accessible guide for students and practitioners which would not only convey the theoretical underpinnings of QI, but also consider the applied elements of what it takes to be an ‘improver’. 

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“Our classrooms really are a place where history can be changed.” – A Q&A with Orlene Badu

If it were up to us everyday would be marked as a teacher appreciation day. Amongst the most important jobs in the world, that of a teacher can not be acknowledged enough. Teachers and schools play a significant role in not just impacting individual lives but society at large. In this short Q&A Orelene Badu, the author of How To Build Your Antiracist Classroom highlights just how much power teachers have within their own classrooms to further social justice and change.

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Stress and Health

“All happy families are alikeeach unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” This opening sentence of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is not just intriguing, but speaks to the many conditions and experiences that can influence how we live our lives. It likewise reflects the findings of research that focuses on factors that affect vulnerability or resilience to the effects of stressful experiences and the consequences on physical and mental health.

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Be a Brilliant Dyslexic Student

Dyslexia is a learning difference with a combination of strengths and weaknesses that affects around 15-20% of the population. It is mostly genetic in origin and therefore with you from cradle to grave. 43% of dyslexic students are diagnosed when they reach university as they adjust to the increased academic workload. Many adults in the workplace are undiagnosed.

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Participatory Research Comes of Age: Research Methods for Social Transformation

At a time of accelerating social, political and environmental crises, there is an urgent need for research methods that support social transformation. Over the last fifty years or so, participatory research has emerged as a challenge to traditional research paradigms. It has now come of age as a robust alternative for understanding, analysing and taking action for social change.

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Age at Work – the Great Unifier, the Great Divider

What happens at work, and in workplaces, clearly has a lot to do with different jobs, occupations and class more generally, but workplaces are much more than that. Workplaces are also places of age, where age is “done”, is constructed and reconstructed, is experienced, celebrated and denied. At work, people are routinely assessed by age, sometimes in terms of being a certain number of years, more often through some form of cultural assessment of occupational or professional age – is this a young worker?

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Preparing for the unpredictable

There’s a well-known Yiddish saying ‘Mann tracht und Gott lacht’ meaning Man plans and God laughs. It isn’t unusual for people to live under the illusion (or delusion) that life will be good or get better, and this sense of optimism (or is it entitlement or perhaps hope?) may favor the propensity to plan for a future blessed by comfort, happiness, close friends and family, and good health.

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Gender and Leadership

The linkage between gender and leadership has enormous workplace consequences. It currently favors men and disadvantages women, which is problematic from an equal opportunity and social justice perspective. I believe that the proper goal to be achieved is a workplace in which all employees are treated according to what they bring to the job and everyone is given the chance to reach their leadership potential, regardless of their gender. We’re not there yet.

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