This book brings together in one volume the work of the Just Therapy Team of New Zealand, which has, over the last two decades, inspired and challenged therapists and community workers in many different countries and contexts. Their introduction of the term “Just Therapy” and their determination to bring issues of gender, culture and socioeconomic justice into therapeutic considerations have had powerful implications. So to has their example of taking the personal stories of those who consult them as therapists into broader political and policy arenas. The Just Therapy Team’s committed, dignified and caring cultural partnerships have signaled alternative ways of conceptualizing working relationships. Their descriptions of therapy as a sacred encounter, their honouring of Indigenous traditions of spirituality, and the ways in which they always seek culturally appropriate healing ways have changed forever our understandings of the responsibilities of therapists and healers. This book describes their work in detail. We hope it will act as a resource both for those familiar with the work of the Just Therapy Team and those seeking an introduction to their exciting and challenging ideas. Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Just Therapy
1) Just Therapy – Charles Waldegrave
2) “Just Therapy” with families and communities – Charles Waldegrave Chapter 2 Partnerships across culture and gender
3) Cultural and gender accountability in the “just therapy” approach – Kiwi Tamasese, Charles Waldegrave
4) Furthering conversation about partnerships of accountability: Talking about the issues of leadership, ethics and care - Kiwi Tamasese, Charles Waldegrave, Flora Tuhaka and Warihi Campbell Chapter 3 Culturally appropriate therapy
5) Therapy as metaphorical reflection – Charles Waldegrave
6) Family therapy and the question of power – Kiwi Tamasese and Charles Waldegrave (Interviewer Ian Law)
7) The challenges of culture to psychology and postmodern thinking –Charles Waldegrave Chapter 4 Spirituality
8) Grappling with a contemporary and inclusive spirituality – Charles Waldegrave
9) A spiritual prison tale – Warihi Campbell Chapter 5 Maori ways
10) In the beginning – Warihi Campbell and Flora Tuhaka
11) Pura Pura Tko Iho (The seed that has been passed down) – Flora Tuhaka Chapter 6 Samoan ways
12) Honouring Samoan ways and understanding – Kiwi Tamasese
13) Multiple sites of healing - Kiwi Tamasese Chapter 7 Matters of gender
14) Gender and culture – together - Kiwi Tamasese
15) Gender – The impact of western definitions of womanhood on other cultures – Kiwi Tamasese and Lumamanuvao Winnie Laban Chapter 8 Working on issues of violence and abuse
16) Stop Abuse Project – Kiwi Tamasese
17) Challenges from within the culture – Warihi Campbell
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