Counseling leadership: examining race and racism using social constructionism

Integrated supervision framework: A multicultural, social justice, and ecological approach.

“…Depending on the proximity and duration of an experience, these may impart different individual reactions and impacts (Tudge et al, 2009; Xia et al, 2020). For instance, the time period referred to as the intersection of the COVID-19 pandemic and the racial reckoning for Black, Indigenous, and people of colour (BIPOC) persons, through the Black Lives Matter, Stop Asian Hate, MeToo, Freedom for Immigrants, and Trans Lives Matter movements hold different significance dependent upon whether conceptualized across microtime, mesotime, or macrotime (Peters et al, 2022). If the individual supervisor is working with a counsellor who is providing services to a client who is deemed to be an essential worker , meaning the client is exposed to the dangers of the virus for a prolonged amount of time (mesotime) compared to a client who is working from home (microtime), the counsellor would need to consider the impact of this prolonged exposure on the client’s well-being and functioning in their conceptualization.…”

“…In this case, these might be experiences related to discrepancies in the ascription of and response to White and BIPOC’s or other dominant and marginalized communities’ social justice advocacy efforts by government, law enforcement, and the media. These experiences are most recently evident in the juxtaposition of the response to a largely White and racist crowd storming the Capitol and primarily BIPOC crowd gathering in support of Black Lives Matter, Stop Asian Hate, MeToo, Freedom for Immigrants, and Trans Lives Matter (Flaskerud, 2021; Peters et al, 2022). While the supervisor chooses whether and how to address their responses directly with the supervisee, consideration of the impact of systemic racism, genderism, classism, heterosexism, police brutality, White supremacy, and domestic terrorism are consistent with the ISF and apply to all supervisory stakeholders.…”

Principles of anti‐oppression: A critical analytic synthesis

“…This evolution may extend the fourth and fifth forces of counseling (Peters & Luke, 2021a;Ratts et al, 2016) or serve as a sign post marker of the sixth force of counseling. More generally, the development of these 10 principles of anti-oppression also aligns with recent scholarship integrating and demanding the inclusion of critical and intersectionality within counseling and counselor education to address the multiplistic forms of systemic and structural discrimination and oppression for marginalized persons and communities across counseling (Ali & Lee, 2019), leadership and advocacy (Peters, Chan, et al, 2022;Peters et al, 2020;Peters & Luke, 2021b), research (Chan et al, 2019;Hays & Singh, 2023;Sharma et al, 2021), supervision (Mitchell & Butler, 2021;Peters, 2017;Peters, Bruner, et al, 2022), and teaching (Chan et al, 2018;Shannon, 2020). The results of the current study further the scholarship by extending and centering the focus on anti-oppression, which parallels and differs from the extant counseling literature.…”