Exam 13: Community and Social Justice Perspectives

______________________include any institution - public or private, nonprofit or for­profit - designed to provide a wide range of social and psychological services to the community.

The is relevant to all communities, but it is particularly relevant to underserved communities. By addressing the cause of the problem within the community, we can help change the lives of many individuals - not just the one person sitting in our office or clinic.

Prevention programs that help people develop a wider range of competencies, such as interpersonal skills training or marriage education, are considered:

Mario's job entails going to middle schools within the county to run counseling groups for students identified as having the potential for aggression. He is providing:

The foundation of all ethical practice is promoting the welfare of clients. To overlook the abilities, strengths, and resources within the community is doing a great disservice to the individuals we serve. If we hope to bring about significant changes within individuals and communities, we:

______________________involves access and equity to ensure full participation in the life of a society, particularly for those who have been systematically excluded on the basis of race/ethnicity, gender, age, physical or mental disability, education, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics of background or group membership and involves addressing the realities of oppression, privilege, and social inequities.

Chong is a legal immigrant who is having post-traumatic stress symptoms as a result of his experiences in Laos. He may be reluctant to use the available counseling recourses because of all the following reasons EXCEPT:

The is grounded on strengths, focuses on assets and capacities, promotes capability and power, changes conditions, and is aimed at prevention. This approach builds on identifying resources within the individual, the group, or the community that can be more fully activated.

The goal of counseling from a social justice perspective is:

______________________is "a comprehensive helping framework that is grounded in multicultural competence and oriented toward social justice." The focus of community work is on preventing rather than remediating.

______________________is a diverse pool of human-service workers whose primary duties include serving individuals within the community in a variety of community groups and includes social workers, community organizers and developers, clinical mental health counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, counselors, couples and family therapists, artists, activists, clergy persons, human-service workers with varying degrees of education and training, and residents involved in the community.

A focuses on problems to be solved and holes to fill. It is concerned more with maintaining rather than changing conditions and is oriented toward fixing problems rather than preventing them. A service orientation relies on experts and reinforces power imbalances, whereas a developmental approach relies on partnerships and equalizes power relationships.

The in a community agency are more complex and difficult to resolve than ones pertaining to individual counseling. If a worker is not motivated, the system may tolerate this lack of motivation. If the system violates the rights of the client (community), then this is a real challenge to address.

Many professionals struggle with the issue of how to work within a system while retaining their dignity, vitality, and convictions. The most important component in any effort to bring about change is to:

Social justice is referred to as a , which entails a paradigm shift beyond the individual and represents a proactive concern with advocacy and social change and focuses on changing systems and policies on multiple______________________levels.

Counselors who base their practice on aspirational ethics oppose all forms of :

In this role, counselors assist clients in recognizing oppressive forces in the community as a source of their problem and teach their clients strategies for developing political power to bring about change in the clients' social and physical environment.

The perspective, when working with marginalized groups in our society, is most enhanced (a) when mental health professionals can understand how individual and systemic world views shape clinical practice and (b) when they are equipped with organizational and system knowledge, expertise, and skills.

In regards to helpers working in the community, providing services in may be clinically and ethically indicated and may be most beneficial to clients.

Tony, a recently relocated Mexican-American man, is seeking help from a Spanish-speaking organization designed to meet the needs of newly arriving legal immigrants. Tony is quite depressed, but reluctant to talk to his counselor______________________ about his problems. The counselor refers him to an indigenous resource who is more likely to be trusted by Tony. He was most likely referred to: