1. Incorporating Indigenous Perspectives in Counselling Psychology (Speaking Together)
Nhlanhla Mkhize, PhD
University of KwaZulu-Natal
School of Psychology
South Africa
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2. Over-reliance on imported theoretical frameworks
Background
Over-reliance on imported theoretical frameworks
Marginalization of others’ ways of being-in-the-world
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3. Implications for Counseling Psychology Training
Reflect on assumptions embedded in our theories
What does it mean to be a black/white man/woman teaching counseling psych in the post-colonial context?
The social construction of minority students: and dominant narratives about minorities
Professional training and identity development
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4. Plurality of Knowledge: Diverse Syllabi
Incorporate indigenous worldviews in the Counseling Psychology Syllabi:
Human life interconnected, indivisible
Human beings inherently spiritual
Interdependence of Self & Other, Mind, Body & Spirit
Human participation in creative becoming; human beings as forms-in-waiting
Relationship between Balance & Imbalance
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5. The Role of language in Counseling Training
Translation of major counseling texts into indigenous languages is required, in order to ensure conceptual equivalence
Bottom up approach: to bring local counseling knowledge and frameworks into the international arena
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6. Recommendations
Incorporation of indigenous knowledge systems into the curriculum, while
Avoiding tokenism and anthropological essentialism and ghettoisation
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7. Recommendations
Contextualizing various claims to truth, to identify liberating and constraining discourses within the discipline of counseling psychology itself
Ongoing questioning of one’s assumptions and opening up to the world of the other, through dialogue
Paying attention to the role of power/power differentials in psychological work
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8. Recommendations
Paying attention to knowledge communicated by our racialized and gendered bodies, knowledge ‘deposited’ in our bodies
Immersion experience for senior counseling students: to promote a practical and relational, rather than a detached and theoretical, view of the other
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9. Recommendations
A vernacular language requirement for all trainee counselling psychologists
Internationalization: Translation of major international texts into African languages
A bottom up approach to research, to make local counselling concepts international
That way, we will be able to say, we are ………….
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10. kea le boha Asante sana! E Nkosi! ngiyabonga Baie dankie
Speaking Together
Thank You
kea le boha
ngiyabonga
E Nkosi!
Asante sana!
Baie dankie
11/18/2018