Action-Based Psychosocial Reconciliation Approach: Canadian Counselling Psychological Contribution to Interpersonal Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorMinami, Masahiro
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-02T23:25:07Z
dc.date.available2020-01-02T23:25:07Z
dc.date.issued2019-10
dc.description.abstractThe author introduces rural communities in post-Genocide Rwanda, where needs for interpersonal and psychosocial reconciliation between survivors and perpetrators of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsis are grave. The author illuminates unintended yet common side effects of forgiveness-seeking as a method of interpersonal reconciliation, including the dignity injuries this approach has brought to survivors. An overview of an alternative approach to interpersonal reconciliation, termed Action-Based Psychosocial Reconciliation Approach, will be introduced along with its conceptual-empirical foundations and beneficial effects. The second half of the paper discusses the author’s personal reflections on how his training in the context of Canadian counselling psychology has shaped and continues to guide his ongoing work supporting community psychosocial reconciliation in Rwanda. The author shares his views on the relational signature of the counselling psychological approach, its applied nature, a directionality of scholarship, its harmonious fit with the field of mental health services research and praxiological epistemology, and ethicality of engagements. The author concludes with a call to fellow Canadian counselling psychologists for their active participation in international/global endeavours.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMinami, M. (2019). Action-based psychosocial reconciliation approach: Canadian counselling psychological contribution to interpersonal reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda. Proceedings from the 2018 Canadian Counselling Psychology Conference, 97-109.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/37391
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/111414
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisher.institutionSimon Fraser Universityen_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en_US
dc.subjectinterpersonal reconciliationen_US
dc.subjectMorita therapyen_US
dc.subjectcontact theoryen_US
dc.subjectpraxiologyen_US
dc.subjectmental health services researchen_US
dc.titleAction-Based Psychosocial Reconciliation Approach: Canadian Counselling Psychological Contribution to Interpersonal Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwandaen_US
dc.typeconference proceedingsen_US
dc.typepublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeconference proceedingsen_US
dc.typepublishedVersionen_US
ucalgary.item.requestcopytrueen_US
Files
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
8.Minami.pdf
Size:
493.8 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.92 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download
Collections
Canadian Counselling Psychology Conference