Description
Book SynopsisHelping to Promote Social Justice is a richly informed and practical guide for advanced students and young professionals to become helpers capable of promoting social justice with whomever they collaborate with, mentor, serve and consult. Filled with insight and supplemental exercises, the book will direct readers to think critically and reflect on the broader social and political systems that create our current social injustices.
Beginning with a strong theoretical focus on power, social identity and intersectionality, the authors engage with readers' assumptions on helping, their value systems and their understandings of power and privilege when helping communities in need. The rest of the book focuses on the application of these critical concepts, guiding future helpers to consider how to intervene, assess need, lead, build a team, address conflict and work to promote change from a position of social justice.
Written by academic faculty with expertise in teac
Table of Contents
Foreword Introduction Part 1. Helping Promote Liberation 1. Going beyond individual helping 2. Deconstructing social identity and intersectionality 3. Learning the role of values in social justice-focused helping 4. Theorizing power and social justice 5. Intervening to support empowerment Part 2. Helping Build Empowering Skills 6. Building a team to support a community 7. Leading with heart, hope, and hustle in educational contexts 8. Mentoring to promote social justice 9. Teaching for critical research 10. Training and supervising social justice-oriented clinicians Part 3. Helping Expand Social Justice 11. Researching for social justice 12. Advocating for public policy 13. Writing grants for community building 14. Sharing and disseminating 15. Building a social justice toolkit
