Creating safe spaces: Latino counselor educators advocating for social justice in counselor education

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dc.contributor.advisorHollenbaugh, Michelle
dc.contributor.authorSalazar, Ana Marie
dc.contributor.committeeMemberOliver, Marvarene
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMincey, Kimberlee
dc.contributor.committeeMemberHarris, Randall
dc.creator.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0435-0318
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-28T20:59:29Z
dc.date.available2023-08-28T20:59:29Z
dc.date.issued2023-5
dc.descriptionA dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in COUNSELOR EDUCATION from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi in Corpus Christi, Texas.
dc.description.abstractThe field of modern counseling is conceptualized through a lens of social justice advocacy with professionals tasked with actively engaging in advocacy efforts. However, counselor education has been slower to make systemic changes needed to decolonize and dismantle the field to prepare future counselors with the skills needed to adequately address advocacy. Additionally, those faculty personally and professionally motivated to keep the programs to task or lead advocacy efforts are often of marginalized statuses themselves, and thus, the oppressed are working within oppressive systems. Literature centered on the experiences of Black and Asian American Pacific Islander faculty recount systemic challenges and burdens they experience in counselor education advocacy. As another marginalized group within counselor education faculty, the Latino experience has not been explored unless contained within a cumulative experience. This hermeneutic phenomenological qualitative study explored the lived experiences of four Latino counselor educators as they advocate for social justice within counselor education. The themes identified are (a) Creating Safe Spaces, (b) Continuously Reflecting on Cultural Identity, (c) Creating Chains of Advocacy, (d) Embracing Responsibilities, and (e) Confronting Systemic Challenges. Implications for future research include repeating and expanding this study to include the larger diaspora of Latino culture, include more studies with other largely diverse cultural groups, and to address the shortcomings and successes of the decolonization and dismantling of counselor education.
dc.description.collegeCollege of Education and Human Development
dc.description.departmentCounseling & Educational Psychology
dc.format.extent159 pages
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1969.6/97225
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
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dc.rightsThis material is made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used should be fully credited with its source. All rights are reserved and retained regardless of current or future development or laws that may apply to fair use standards. Permission for publication of this material, in part or in full, must be secured with the author and/or publisher.en_US
dc.subjectadvocacyen_US
dc.subjectcounselor educationen_US
dc.subjectLatino mentorshipen_US
dc.subjectLatino researchen_US
dc.subjectsafe spacesen_US
dc.subjectsystemic challengesen_US
dc.titleCreating safe spaces: Latino counselor educators advocating for social justice in counselor educationen_US
dc.typeTexten_US
dc.type.genreDissertation
dc.type.genreDissertationen_US
dcterms.typeText
thesis.degree.disciplineCounselor Educationen_US
thesis.degree.grantorTexas A & M University--Corpus Christi
thesis.degree.grantorTexas A & M University--Corpus Christien_US
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen_US

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