Teaching anti‐racist counseling theories: Black liberation narrative therapy

Black Capitalism : the Path to Black Liberation ?

Back in 1960 the demand at Greensboro, North Carolina, was for a twenty cent harrburger at a downtown white-owned lunch counter. Since then, freedom rides, sit-ins, marches . for jobs, income and decent housing, and finally urban riots have become vehicles for black expression against racism and for a fair share of American affluence. The response of the white corporate sector to such anguished...

Counseling Theories Within a Postmodernist Epistemology: New Roles for Theories in Counseling Practice

Summer 2006 ■ Volume 84 291 © 2006 by the American Counseling Association. All rights reserved. Theoretical understanding is an essential part of effective counseling practice. Theories help counselors organize clinical data, make complex processes coherent, and provide conceptual guidance for interventions. The overwhelming barrage of information with which practicing counselors are regularly ...

Narrative Therapy

The Effect of Group Counseling "Narrative Therapy" to reduce Depression and Loneliness among older women

Methods: This is a quasi experimental research method using post-test design with a control group. 24 women were selected from all the elderly women referring to Iranian Alzheimer‘s Association in 2012 through randomized sampling method and have been assigned to experiment and control groups. The tools for assessing depression and loneliness were the Geriatric Depression Scale and the Lonelines...

Teaching antenatal counseling skills to neonatal providers.

Counseling a family confronted with the birth of a periviable neonate is one of the most difficult tasks that a neonatologist must perform. The neonatologist's goal is to facilitate an informed, collaborative decision about whether life-sustaining therapies are in the best interest of this baby. Neonatologists are trained to provide families with a detailed account of the morbidity and mortalit...