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Publication Date: 2017
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Language Matters in Counselling Diversity
Lee, Billy
British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, v45 n5 p500-507 2017
The paper presents a personal view of some issues around therapeutic conversations involving difference and minority experience. Language, discourse and mother-tongue are explored from different theoretical standpoints and considered alongside concepts of difference, otherness and the unvoiced. Intercultural counselling offers a framework for unpacking the meaning of decolonising practice in conversations with clients or counsellors from ethnic or other minorities undertaking counselling or supervision. I discuss possibilities for practice informed by existential and hermeneutic phenomenology, including gestalt therapy interventions to bring in the body alongside discourse, and phenomenological empathy as a non-colonising resource in working across difference and diversity.
Descriptors: Language Usage, Counseling, Supervision, Phenomenology, Ethnic Diversity, Cultural Relevance, Counseling Techniques, Experience, Psychology, Cultural Influences, Hermeneutics, Minority Groups
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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