Reconceptualizing the Counseling Profession: A Decoloniality Journey - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1556200080 ISBN 13: 9781556200083

Casa editrice: Amer Counseling Assn, 2026

Riassunto

The decolonization movement has become an everyday language in the counseling field. Due to political influences, some debates exist about the real meaning of decolonizing mental health. This textbook attempts to bring the Global South’s knowledge about the theoretical bases of decolonization to the North without misappropriating this knowledge and simultaneously providing practical applications and interventions. That is, in this book, the authors will first give the theoretical bases for the decolonization movement, beginning by describing the colonization process as a process of different stages and presenting the work of Enriquez, Dussel, Freire, Quijano, and others as a model of decolonization from a liberatory perspective. From the model in decolonization, the authors will provide applications to counseling interventions, for example, using interventions rooted in Indigenous Ways of Knowing and liberatory principles. The book moves the audience from decolonization into decoloniality, which is the intervention of the “here” and “now” expressed in the references to liberatory practices. As explained in the chapter's description below, in the book's second part, the authors will concentrate on applications of the Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Liberatory practices, such as problematization and critical consciousness. Furthermore, contrary to other books about decolonization, the authors of this book are members of minority groups who, in the history of the United States, have been part of the colonized populations and will use many of the theories that were developed in the Global South (i.e., Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Amilcar Cabral, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Walter Rodney, Homi K. Bhabha, Achille Mbembe, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Albert Memmi, Maria Lugones, Anibal Quijano, Walter Mignolo, Ramón Grosfoguel, Sylvia Wynter, Enrique Dussel, Nelson Maldonado-Torres) to move from an act (decolonization) to decoloniality as an ongoing process (i.e., Native Americans, Latine, African Americans, etc.).

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Informazioni sull'autore

Dr. Edil Torres Riverahas a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology with a concentration in multicultural counseling from the University of Connecticut, Storrs. He is a professor of counseling and the director of the Latinx Cluster initiative at Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas. Edil Torres Rivera is native Puerto Rican with a career of over 25 years in counseling. This includes 12 years in the United States Army. He is the president elect of the American Counseling Association (2022-2023).

Dr. Torres Rivera research interests are in multicultural counseling, group work, chaos theory, liberation psychology (decolonial approaches), indigenous counseling, Puerto Rican studies, identity development, and gang/prison-related behavior. Specifically, his primary research focuses on complexity and how indigenous healing techniques are a necessary ingredient when working with ethnic minority populations in the United States. Dr. Torres Rivera has additional interests in studying the implications of social injustice and oppression in counseling and psychotherapy with ethnic minorities in the United States.

His community work includes consultation services to the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe Council in Nevada, visiting professor to the Universidad del Valle, Guatemala, and he was the director of the Graduate School of Educations School Counseling Program in Singapore.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Amer Counseling Assn
• Data di pubblicazione: 2026
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1556200080
• ISBN 13: 9781556200083
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 375
• Redattore: Rivera Edil Torres, Fernandez Ivelisse Torres
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: GPSR Kontakt; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Germania