Language matters in counselling diversity

Billy Lee

doi:10.1080/03069885.2016.1265914

Language matters in counselling diversity

Billy Lee

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Article number	1
Pages (from-to)	1-8
Number of pages	8
Journal	British Journal of Guidance & Counselling
Early online date	6 Dec 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2016.1265914
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 6 Dec 2016

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

difference
discourse
intercultural counselling
minorities
phenomenology

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10.1080/03069885.2016.1265914

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“I have to hear them before I hear myself”: Developing therapeutic conversations in British counselling students
Lee, B. & Prior, S., 1 Sept 2016, (E-pub ahead of print) In: European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling. 18, 3, p. 271-289 19 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
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Developing therapeutic listening
Lee, B. & Prior, S., 1 Apr 2013, In: British Journal of Guidance & Counselling. 41, 2, p. 91-104 14 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The talking cure: Wittgenstein's therapeutic method for psychotherapy. By John M. Heaton.
Lee, B., 2 Nov 2010, In: History and Philosophy of Psychology. 12, p. 96-98
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

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Language matters in counselling diversity

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“I have to hear them before I hear myself”: Developing therapeutic conversations in British counselling students

Developing therapeutic listening

The talking cure: Wittgenstein's therapeutic method for psychotherapy. By John M. Heaton.

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