TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Beyond awareness of 'difference' and towards social action: 'solidarity practice' alongside young people
JO  - Clinical child psychology and psychiatry
A1  - Afuape, Taiwo
SP  - 402
EP  - 415
VL  - 21
IS  - 3
N2  - Who I am as a working-class black African woman cannot be disconnected from how I work. It shapes my lens with regard to power, difference and liberation. It is not surprising that I have been drawn to social justice approaches to psychological intervention, such as Narrative Therapy, Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM), social constructionist systemic therapy and liberation psychology. These practices involve taking up the cause of the oppressed in ways that respect them as agents of their own liberation. In this article, I describe what I term 'solidarity practice' with young people and their families as a counter force resisting the increasingly blaming and individualising discourse of mainstream psychology, psychiatry and social policy.<br><br>© The Author(s) 2016.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1359-1045
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359104516645642
ID  - ref1
ER  -