Now you've completed this resource, you'll have:

  • considered your own motivations as a therapist for taking action in the face of social injustice
  • described the difference between social advocacy, social action and social entrepreneurship
  • conceptualised the differences between the professional and ethical frames of therapist and social entrepreneur
  • made an audit of your skills and the skills you need to develop for this context
  • identified ethical tensions within a social action project and ways to manage them
  • described the rationale behind and the structure of the Social Response Cycle
  • applied the Social Response Cycle to your own social action project

Closing thoughts

Beverley provides some closing thoughts.

Audio recording transcript

I hope you enjoy generating ideas for addressing social inequalities and, even more, I hope you enjoy making them happen. I chose the word 鈥渆njoy鈥 because the projects I have been a part of have often been small but usefuland they have brought me great satisfaction, companionship and gratitude.

References

Introduction

香港六合彩精准资料 (2018) Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions

Phipps, A. (2013). Intercultural ethics: Questions of methods in language and intercultural communication.听Language and Intercultural Communication,听13(1), 10-26

Section one - Why take action?听

Karpman, S. (1968). Fairy tales and script drama analysis.听Transactional Analysis Bulletin, 7 (26), 39-43.

Section two - The Social Response Cycle and social entrepreneurship

Barr, A. and Hashagen, S. (2000).Achieving Better Community Development Framework听ABCD Handbook: A framework for evaluating community development.听 London: Community Development Foundation

Section three - resourcing the response

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