Intersectionality in Research: Call for Inclusive, Decolonized, and Culturally Sensitive Research Designs in Counselor Education

Collecting sexual orientation in counseling research: Implications for counselor education

“…Additionally, research focused on LGBTQ+ topics remains sparse in counseling and psychology literature (e.g., Abreu et al., 2022; Greenspan et al., 2017; Singh & Shelton, 2011), contributing to documented invisibility of LGBQ+ participants in research (Griffith et al., 2017; HRC, 2019). In counseling research, this is especially problematic, as not knowing participants’ sexualities limits researchers’ ability to identify potential confounds or otherwise explore the impact of sexual orientation on outcome variables (Limberg et al., 2021; Sharma et al., 2021).…”

“…Ethical guidelines and standards of research (i.e., ACA, 2014; Griffith et al., 2017), as well as federal regulations and guidelines (HHS, 2011; Policy for Protection of Human Subjects, 45 C.F.R. §46), emphasized researchers’ responsibility to include and accurately describe marginalized populations, such as LGBQ+ people, in their research (Sharma et al., 2021). Counseling researchers aim to honor LGBQ+ participants’ complex social identities by collecting sexual orientation with intentionality (Griffith et al., 2017) and resources for how to do so are available (e.g., Wolff et al., 2017).…”

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.…”

Where is knowledge from the global South? An account of epistemic justice for a global bioethics

“…A range of research methods can be brought to bear in this mapping exercise (table 1). To be epistemically just, it is imperative that evidence gathering uses research approaches that recognise context and intersectionality and that specifically give voice to the perspectives of those who are neglected 51 52. To us, this means employing research approaches that empower participants—for instance, by fostering deliberation and co-creation of research questions and methods.…”