Abstract
This chapter explores the problems of race, ethnicity and culture within counselling. It challenges the counselling world's neoliberal march towards manualised and standardised biomedical paradigms, which are not helpful for working culturally. They reinforce attitudes which are oppressive. Using an autoethnographic approach the author draws on their own experience of coming from two different cultures calling for the counselling world to challenge the binary , hegemonic and colonial thinking which underpins the biomedical approach taken. The author also brings awareness to the new growing demographic of mixed people who do not neatly fit into cultural boxes ascribed to them.Citation
Egeli, C. (2021). Counselling the 'other'. In C. Newnes (Ed.), Racism in psychology: Challenging theory, practice and institutions. Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge.Publisher
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Book chapterISBN
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