Decolonizing health, healing, and care: Embodying culturally responsive and socially just counselling
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The book, Decolonizing Health, Healing, and Care: Embodying Culturally Responsive and Socially Just Counselling, responds to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action in meaningful and practical ways. The editors (Dr. Sandra Collins and Dr. Melissa Jay) work with co-authors to consider what the theory and practice of counselling and psychotherapy might look like by centring Indigenous worldviews. They apply the practice of Etuaptmumk or Two-Eyed Seeing to honour the pluralism of views of health and healing and to open new possibilities for relationally, ethically, and culturally responsive practice. The over 75 collaborators speak from within their multiple and intersecting identities and relationalities to offer a rich and diverse perspectives based on Indigeneity, ethnicity, ability, social class, age, gender, gender identity, religion or spirituality, and sexual orientation. They offer insights into how embracing and centring Indigenous and other commonly marginalized ways of knowing, being, and doing can transform our approach to health, healing, and care for all persons and all communities. The co-authors expand the possibilities for health and healing through an ecological, systems lens that embracing change at the macro-, meso-, and microlevels. They invite consideration of our shared accountability and responsibility to address social determinants of health and to disrupting systems of oppression in order to advance justice, accessibility, inclusion, diversity, and equity. The book is intended to provide a foundation for all that we do in health, healing, and care by inviting continuous self-reflection and critical deconstruction of theory and practice. A framework for culturally responsive and socially just counselling provides an integrative thread through the book in the form of 8 pathways and 18 practices. Each of these is inspired, co-created, or amplified by the many beautiful and thoughtful contributions of each collaborator. The book integrates audio, video, and artistic elements in a digitally accessible platform designed to meet the needs of all readers.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.012 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.094 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.018 | 0.012 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.015 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".