Cross Cultural Awareness and Social Justice in Counseling

Human immunodeficiency virus: the need of a person-centered counselling

“…Considering all of these aspects will allow the users to be aware of their own resources and take more favourable healthy actions. [21][22][23][24][25] In order to update the Clinical Practice Guideline, Evidence-Based Psychology (EBP) was taken into consideration throughout the research. Therefore, Good Practices were reviewed to grasp a favourable humanistic counseling approach, specifically for HIV counseling.…”

“…9 This is why the humanistic focus has been increasingly included on the counseling process for people who have HIV, especially if the emotional and social burden that comes with the diagnosis is taken into account. 10 Through this focus, the individuality and autonomy of the person has a priority as well as the subjective aspect of how reality is perceived. 11,12 Counseling sessions are a more effective strategy when they are designed in a collaborative manner in which patients are involved.…”

Social Justice in Education and Counseling

“…that American psychology's determined individualist focus, paralleling the broader American capitalist victim-blaming ethos, needed correction by a compensating emphasis on the communal and the mutual. (p. 300) Ellis and Carlson (2009) posited that social justice can be thought of in terms of one's internal sense of conscience or spiritual responsibility as well as one's sense of righteousness for the world. Whether your sense of social justice comes from your faith, your spirit, or your religious conviction, social justice can be equated to the harmonious nature by showing love, goodness, or kindness to your fellow being because you are a recipient of blessings and precious love yourself.…”

Student Spirituality and School Counseling: Issues, Opportunities, and Challenges

“…Expanding the professional conversation and, more important, generating enough grassroots momentum for implementation strategies to occur in schools are relatively daunting challenges. However, given shifting economic, societal, and sociocultural trends (Ellis & Carlson, 2009;Ponterotto et al, 2008) and the apparent drifting of Americans' core values and morality away from their initial Judeo-Christian religious moorings, this is a favorable time for school counselors to pool resources with other like-minded professionals as they attempt to nurture the spiritual well-being of students (Myers, 2009).…”

“…In other words, PSCs address spirituality not in what could be deemed as religious terminology, but rather as a meaning-making skill set, a composite developmental strength that promotes well-being and furthers positive socialization (P. E. Lambie et al, 2008). In this sense, socialization, including socialization into faith and spiritual communities, contributes to students' identity development (Ellis & Carlson, 2009;Gallardo & McNeill, 2009;Moore-Thomas & Day-Vines, 2008;Templeton & Eccles, 2006). The meaning-making approach could also be framed as an acknowledgment of and respect for the student's particular worldview (Ponterotto et al, 2008).…”