Factors Related to Play Therapists' Social Justice Advocacy Attitudes

Abstract

the authors used a correlational research design to examine how belief in a just world, political ideology, socioeconomic status of family of origin, and percentage of racial minority clients were related to social justice advocacy attitudes among play therapists. A multiple regression was used to analyze the data. Results indicated that belief in a just world and political ideology were related to social justice advocacy. Implications for play therapy training and future directions for research are discussed.Los autores emplearon un diseño correlacional de investigación para examinar cómo la creencia en un mundo justo, la ideología política, el estatus socioeconómico de la familia de origen y el porcentaje de clientes de minorías raciales estaban relacionados con actitudes de apoyo de la justicia social entre consejeros que usan terapia de juego. Se empleó una regresión múltiple para analizar los datos. Los resultados indicaron que la creencia en un mundo justo y la ideología política estaban relacionadas con la defensa de la justicia social. Se discuten las implicaciones para formación en terapia de juego y direcciones futuras para investigación.Palabras Clave: terapia de juego, justicia social

And justice for all: Revisiting the Global Belief in a Just World Scale

“…This lack of empirical evaluation is especially surprising given the continued widespread use of the scale across the disciplines of personality and social psychology (e.g., Kogut, 2011;Laurin, Fitzsimons, & Kay, 2011), counseling psychology (e.g., Parikh, Ceballos, & Post, 2013), abnormal psychology (e.g., Nudelman & Shiloh, 2011), education (e.g., Morais & Ogden, 2011), social justice (e.g., Torres-Harding, Steele, Schulz, Taha, & Pico, 2014, law (e.g., Hill, 2009), and marketing (e.g., White, Rhiannon, & Ellard, 2012). In general, the GBJWS has been used extensively across the social sciences since its construction, yet has been subject to relatively little evaluation save for the occasional praise (e.g., Couch, 1998) as a promising alternative to other scales.…”

Social Workers’ Attitudes on Social Justice in Taiwan

“…Future studies could also consider incorporating qualitative methods, as adopting different research methods could provide a more wide ranging understanding of the meaning of social justice in the various social work areas. Previous research (e.g., Parikh et al, 2013) demonstrated that believing in a just world and a certain political ideology influenced people's desire to engage in social justice advocacy. It would therefore be useful for future studies to explore the political attitudes of social workers in Taiwan.…”

Psychological Safety and Appreciation of Differences in Counselor Training Programs: Examining Religion, Spirituality, and Political Beliefs

“…Our results also indicated that political conservatism significantly related to both psychological safety and appreciation of differences among counselors-in-training, albeit with small or medium effect sizes. Previous researchers have found that counselors are more likely to be liberal or Democrat than conservative or Republican (Parikh et al, 2013;Steele et al, 2014). Therefore, support for the notion that politically conservative counseling students may feel less psychologically safe and perceive less appreciation of differences could imply that the political values of the majority are influencing the perceived acceptability of alternative political ideologies.…”

“…Along the continuum of political ideology, researchers have posited that counselors are more left or liberal than right or conservative. Specifically, in their study of 448 members of the Association for Play Therapy, Parikh, Ceballos, and Post () found that 73% identified as somewhat to very liberal compared with 27% who identified as somewhat to very conservative. In addition, among members of ACA (101 counselor educators and 112 counselors), 53.5% of counselor educators and 53.6% of counselors identified as slightly to extremely liberal compared with 25.7% of counselor educators and 20.5% of counselors who identified as slightly to extremely conservative (Steele, Bischof, & Craig, ).…”