Handbook for Social Justice in Counseling Psychology

Rebecca L. Toporek, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Counseling, Career and College Counseling Specializations, at San Francisco State University. Her research and writing interests include social justice and multicultural supervision and training, advocacy competencies, attitudes toward race and poverty, systemic interventions in discrimination, and career and college counseling. She was a co-editor of the Handbook of Multicultural Competencies and is a co-editor of an emerging electronic journal of social justice in counseling and psychology. She is a founding member of Counselors for Social Justice of the American Counseling Association. She received her doctorate degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her most important roles include mother, partner, sister, daughter, friend, colleague, teacher, ally, community member, and global citizen.Lawrence H. Gerstein earned a B.B.A. in public administration and a Ph.D. in counseling and social psychology. He is a Ball State University George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, Fulbright Scholar, and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Professor Gerstein is a Co-Editor of the Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology and an Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Counseling Psychology. He has published 100+ scholarly articles and three books including the International Handbook of Cross-Cultural Counseling and the Handbook for Social Justice in Counseling Psychology. He is known for his research on cross-cultural methodology, nonviolence, social justice, emotions, and sports for youth development. Professor Gerstein has received 2+ million dollars in funding including four U.S. State Department grants and one U.S. Institute of Peace grant. He has performed conflict prevention and resolution work and/or research with adults, children, and youth in the U.S.A, Jordan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Indonesia, Israel, Taiwan, and Burma. He also has trained Iraqi young leaders in social entrepreneurship.  Nadya A. Fouad, PhD, ABPP, is the Mary and Ted Kellner Endowed Chair of Educational Psychology and a University Distinguished Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She received her Ph.D in Counseling Psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1984. Her primary areas of interest are career development and career choices of women and of racial and ethnic minorities; cross-cultural vocational assessment; interest measurement; cross-cultural counseling; race and ethnicity, and competencies in training.  Dr. Fouad is the editor of the Journal of Vocational Behavior.  She is a past editor of the Counseling Psychologist, and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Career Assessment, Journal of Counseling Psychology, and Career Development Quarterly. She currently serves on the National Academy of Engineering’s Workforce Development Workgroup.  Dr. Fouad is past president of The Society of Counseling Psychology (17) of the American Psychological Association, past chair of the Council of Counseling Psychology Training Programs, past chair of the Board of Educational Affairs of the American Psychological Association, and is past Chair of the APA Ethics Committee.   She is the 2017 recipient of the Leona Tyler Award for Lifetime of Achievement in Counseling Psychology, the 2014 Society of Vocational Psychology Distinguished Achievement Award, the 2013 Council of Counseling Psychology Training Programs Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2010 Paul Nelson Award, the 2009 APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training, the 2009 Janet E. Helms Award for Mentoring & Scholarship, and the 2003 APA Division 17 John Holland Award for Outstanding Achievement in Career and Personality Research. Gargi Roysircar received her doctorate in educational psychology with emphasis in counseling psychology at Texas Tech University. She is the Founding Director of the Antioch Multicultural Center for Research and Practice at Antioch University New England and Professor of Clinical Psychology. She conducts research on disaster outreach in international settings, the effects of acculturation and enculturation on immigrant mental health, multicultural competencies in practice and assessment, and training graduate students in culturally informed practice. She has authored over 100 journal articles and chapters on these topics, with her most recent publications in Traumatology, Counselling Psychology Quarterly, Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, The Journal of Black Psychology, Journal of Muslim Mental Health, Journal of Career Development, and The Oxford Handbook of Social Class in Counseling.Dr. Roysircar has participated in mental health counseling in earthquake-destroyed Haiti, tsunami-affected fishing communities in Southern India; Hurricanes Katrina and Rita-affected communities and first responders in the United States Gulf Coast; and in Southern African orphanages that serve HIV/AIDS-infected and affected children and women. She has provided psychoeducation in flood-ravaged Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico. Dr. Roysircar trains her counseling teams in disaster trauma, culture-centered skills specific to a community disaster, and in clinician self-care and resilience. She is a grantee of the American Psychological Foundation for her research on her disaster mental health assessment and services.In 2001, Dr. Roysircar was elected as the first Asian President of the Association for Multicultural Counseling  and Development, and was appointed as the first Asian editor of the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development from 2004-2011. Her awards include the 2002 Extended Research Award of the American Counseling Association (ACA) as well as ACA’s 2007 Research Award.  Her co-authored books are “Multicultural Assessment in Counseling and Clinical Psychology,” “Handbook of Social Justice in Counseling Psychology,”\ and the Spanish translation of  “Multicultural Counseling Competencies (2003),”  having previously co-authored this book in English.  Her instrument, the Multicultural Counseling Inventory (MCI), is the most frequently cited instrument among published self-report multicultural competency scales. Her article (Sodowsky et al., 1998), which uses the MCI instrument, was ranked over the past decades among 25 most cited articles of the Journal of Counseling Psychology. Dr. Roysircar is ranked in productivity ratings of authors in 5 multicultural psychology journals. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological (APA) and served on the APA Taskforce for Re-envisioning the Multicultural Guidelines for the 21 Century, adopted by APA in August 2017 and entitled as, Multicultural guidelines: An ecological approach to context, identity, and intersectionality. Dr. Roysircar was the recipient of the 2017 Division 35 Psychology of Women Strickland Daniel Mentoring Award. Dr. Roysircar’s 44-year teaching career has been spent in three countries across three continents.Tania Israel is an Associate Professor in the Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her doctoral degree in counseling psychology from Arizona State University in 1998, and she has a background in women’s studies and sexuality education. Her professional interests include gender issues, feminist psychology, sexuality education and counseling, and diversity training. Her current research focuses on the development and assessment of counselor competence with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender clients.

• Chapter 1: Social Justice and Counseling Psychology in Context - Nadya A. Fouad, Lawrence Gerstein, Rebecca L. ToporekChapter 2: Ethics and Professional Issues Related to the Practice of Social Justice in Counseling Psychology - Rebecca L. Toporek, Robert WilliamsPART I : TRAININGChapter 3: Social Justice Training in Counseling Psychology: Needs and Innovations - Rebecca L. Toporek, Christopher J. McNally Chapter 4: Incorporating Social Justice in Counselor Training Programs: A Case Study Example - Regine M. Talleyrand, Rita Chi-Ying Chung, and Fred BemakChapter 5: Empowering Undergraduate Students to Be Agents of Social Change: An Innovative Service Learning Course in Counseling Psychology - Karen M. O’Brien, Sheetal Patel, Nancy Hensler-McGinnis, and Jennifer Kaplan PART II: SCHOOLSChapter 6: Prevention Work in Schools and With Youth: Promoting Competence and Reducing Risks - Gargi RoysircarChapter 7: Prevention and Outreach with Underserved Populations: Building Multisystemic Youth Development Programs for Urban Youth - Elizabeth Vera, Brian Daly, Rufus Gonzales, Melissa Morgan, Charu Thakral Chapter 8: Transformative Endeavors: Implementing Helms′s Racial Identity Theory to a School-Based Heritage Project - Chalmer E. Thompson, Dorienna Harris, Sherri L. Edwards, and Patricia G. GarciaChapter 9: Promoting Social Justice Through Preventive Interventions in Schools - M. Meghan Davidson, Michael Waldo, and Eve M. Adams Chapter 10: A Theoretical and Practice Framework for Universal School-based Prevention - Gargi RoysircarPART III: MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIESChapter 11: Marginalized Communities in the United States: Oppression, Social Justice, and the Role of Counseling Psychologists - Tania IsraelChapter 12: Seeking Social Justice for Victims of Intimate Partner Violence: Real-World Struggles in Pursuit of Systemic Change - Margret E. Bell and Lisa A. GoodmanChapter 13: Achieving Social Justice for College Women With Disabilities: A Model for Inclusion - Barbara J. Palombi and Alisa Matteson MundtChapter 14: Environmental Racism: A Call to the Profession for Community Intervention and Social Action - Azara L. Santiago-Rivera, Kristin Talka, and Amy W. Tully Chapter 15: The Unwarranted Pathologizing of Homeless Mothers: Implications for Research and Social Policy - Lisa CosgroveChapter 16: Diving Into the Hornet’s Nest: Situating Counseling Psychologists in LGB Social Justice Work - David H. Whitcomb and Michael I. LoewyChapter 17: Toward a Radical Feminist Multicultural Therapy: Renewing a Commitment to Activism - Susan L. Morrow, Donna M. Hawxhurst, Ana Y. Montes de Vegas, Tamara M. Abousleman, and Carrie L. CastañedaPART IV: CAREER AND VOCATIONAL ISSUESChapter 18: Social Justice in Career and Vocational Aspects of Counseling Psychology: An Overview - Nadya A. FouadChapter 19: Tools for Remodeling the Master′s House: Advocacy and Social Justice in Education and Work - Ruth E. Fassinger, Susanna M. GallorChapter 20: Individual, Programmatic, and Entrepreneurial Approaches to Social Justice: Counseling Psychologists in Vocational and Career Counseling - Rebecca L. Toporek and Robert C. ChopeChapter 21: Social Justice through Self-Sufficiency: Vocational Psychology and the Transition From Welfare to Work - Cindy L. Juntunen, Angela M. Cavett, Rhanda B. Clow, Venessa Rempel, Rachel E. Darrow, and Adam Guilmino PART V: SOCIAL JUSTICE IN HEALTH CAREChapter 22: Counsdling Health Psychology′s Collaborative Role in the Community - Gargi RoysircarChapter 23: Working for Social Justice From Within the Health Care System: The Role of Social Class in Psychology - Joshua A. Hopps, William M. Liu Chapter 24: Community Health Promotion Curriculum: A Case Study of Southeast Asian Refugees - Uyen K. Huynh and Gargi RoysircarChapter 25: Social Justice Related to Working with HIV/AIDS From a Counseling Health Psychology Perspective - Christa K. Schmidt, Mary Ann Hoffman, Nicole PART VI: COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGISTS IN THE INTERNATIONAL ARENAChapter 26: Counseling Psychologists as International Social Architects - Lawrence H. GersteinChapter 27: A Social Justice Approach to International Collaborative Consultation - Sharon G. Horne and Susan S. Mathews Chapter 28: Couples Helping Couples: Consultation and Training in Peñalolén, Chile - Benedict T. McWhirter and Ellen Hawley McWhirterChapter 29: Bringing Social Justice to International Practices of Counseling Psychology - Kathryn L. Norsworthy with contributions by Ouyporn KhuankaewChapter 30: Counseling Psychology and Nonviolent Activism: Independence for Tibet! - Lawrence H. Gerstein and Doris KirkpatrickChapter 31: Moving From Contact to Change: The Act of Becoming Aware - Scott L. Moeschberger, Alicia Ordonez, Jiu Shankar, and Shonali RaneyPART VII: POLICY AND LEGISLATIVE CHANGEChapter 32: Social Action in Policy and Legislation: Individuals and Alliances - Rebecca L. ToporekChapter 33: Extending the Parsons Legacy: Applications of Counseling Psychology in Pursuit of Social Justice Through the Development of Public Policy - Sandra L. Shullman, Bobbie L. Celeste, and Ted StricklandChapter 34: Confessions of an Abiding Counseling Psychologist - Robert H. McPherson and Clare ReillyPART VIII: FUTURE DIRECTIONSChapter 35: Future Directions for Counseling Psychology: Enhancing Leadership, Vision, and Action in Social Justice - Rebecca L. Toporek, Lawrence H. Gerstein, Nadya A. Fouad, Gargi Roysircar, and Tania IsraelAuthor IndexSubject IndexAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors

“Because social justice work has emerged as one of the hottest topics in the mental health professions over the course of the past five years, the Handbook for Social Justice in Counseling Psychology: Leadership, Vision, and Action is timely and welcome.  Although advocacy counseling, social action, and social justice work - collectively referred to as social justice counseling - are popular subjects appearing in numerous journal articles and a handful of books, especially in social work and counseling, to date no counseling psychology text has been focused exclusively on empowerment and advocacy strategies.  So, this book will be a groundbreaking volume for counseling psychologists with an interest in social justice counseling.  And because the Handbook for Social Justice in Counseling Psychology is well organized, thorough, and scholarly in its coverage, it will be a well-respected contribution to the literature on the subject.”