Preparing school counselors for social justice group counseling: Examining, power, privilege, and intersectionality

Abstract

Given the sociopolitical climate of schools today and multiple crises, school counselors are poised to center healing engagement, antiracist education, and social emotional learning through group counseling. Therefore, counselor education programs must prepare and train social justice‐engaged school counselors with advanced group knowledge and skills to fuel the success of all P‐12 schools. This manuscript specifically explores the extent to which school counselors use the lens of power, privilege, and intersectionality within the screening, planning, implementation, and evaluation of small groups. Results indicate while school counselors are facilitating small group counseling, contradictions exist in training and school counselors’ implementation of small groups from the lens of power, privilege, and intersectionality to promote social justice and antiracist practices in schools. School counselors perceive they were trained in small group counseling from the lens of power, privilege, and intersectionality, however, they reported that they do not implement group counseling from the same lens.

Reimagining Groups: A Phenomenological Investigation of Affinity Groups in Schools

“…As noted in an earlier study (Ieva et al, 2022), what is being taught in school counseling preparation programs does not align with what is actually occurring in school settings. Adding to the confusion is that, after probing, participants in the current study changed their answers about certain terminology used to identify concepts like affinity groups, evaluation, evidencebased curriculum, or the skills they are using.…”

“…Inherent in this theory is the idea that change is possible if these inequalities are addressed at the institutional level (Carbado et al, 2013). Given that the present study expounded upon findings from a previous study exploring the implementation of small groups in educational settings through the lens of power, privilege, and intersectionality (Beasley et al, 2023; Ieva et al, 2022), we believe this framework best suits the current study in how it informs the collection and interpretation of data.…”

Konsep Dasar Konseling Kelompok Menggunakan Pendekatan Realita

“…Prayitno menjelaskan bahwa konseling kelompok merupakan salah satu bentuk layanan dari bimbingan dan konseling dimana dalam kegiatan ini memungkinkan klien mendapatkan sebuah kesempatan untuk membahas dan menyelesaikan masalah yang dihadapi melalui dinamika kelompok, masalah dalam hal ini dapat berupa masalah pribadi yang anggota kelompok tersebut alami (Edwards, 2022;Ieva, 2022;Maree, 2019;Young, 2019). Penggunaan konseling kelompok di mana terdapat dinamika kelompok yang dapat dimanfaatkan untuk mencari solusi, menjadikan proses konseling Kelompok ini dapat dilaksanakan cara terbuka dengan tujuan untuk melakukan pembahasan dan pemecahan masalah pribadi yang dimiliki oleh anggota kelompok.…”