While counselling and psychotherapy are most often depicted as being focused on “mental health”, they are also all about social change and social justice. As well as exploring considerations for collaborative, ethically-based therapeutic practice, this conference seeks to highlight the power relations and cultural forces that are the backdrop to therapeutic practice. Ideas will be shared for bringing a spirit of collaborative activism into daily practice.
Mental health professionals interested in client-centred approaches such as narrative practices, brief solution-focused therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, dialectic behavioural therapy. Community practitioners and activist, senior academics, researchers, teachers, students and policy-makers.
