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Diversity and Social Justice in Counseling, Psychology, and Psychotherapy: A Case Study Approach offers readers a critical perspective on the ways in which helping professions are practiced in the context of a multifaceted society. The text is designed to advance readers' understanding that ethnic group and race categories are useful but limited without the inclusion of the intersectionality of the Group of Seven (Big 7) identities (and beyond): race/culture/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientations, class, disability, religion/spirituality, and age. Key concepts, such as multiple and intersecting cultural identities and social locations, power, privilege, stereotyping, discrimination, prejudice, and oppression, are explored through various points of entry. Individual chapters cover the integration of antiracism and critical race theory in practice, Indigeneity and coloniality as analytic tools, feminist therapy, ethical considerations, and more. The book supports the construction of an intersubjective, intrapsychic, and relational space in practice. Each chapter includes a case vignette that illustrates how cultural, historical, economical, and sociopolitical contexts offer a background to diversity and social justice theory and practice, as well as reflective questions to help readers think critically. Diversity and Social Justice in Counseling, Psychology, and Psychotherapy is an essential resource for students and practitioners within various helping professions.

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Anusha Kassan, Ph.D., RPsych is an associate professor in the School and Applied Child Psychology program at the University of British Columbia. She is the director of the Vividathà Research Group. She completed her graduate studies at McGill University, which included a pre-doctoral internship in professional psychology at the University of California, Irvine Counseling Centre. Roy Moodley, Ph.D. is an associate professor in counseling and clinical psychology at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. He is the director of the Centre for Diversity in Counselling and Psychotherapy and the associate editor of the Routledge International Journal of Health Promotion and Education.

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