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Counselling in culturally diverse inner-city communities: The rise and fall of the Kabin counselling project.
- Source :
- Journal of Social Work Practice; Sep2009, Vol. 23 Issue 3, p315-326, 12p
- Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- The social and economic regeneration of inner-city housing estates has been a common feature of successive UK government policies for a number of years. However, their focus has primarily been on the physical regeneration of communities to the exclusion of individuals' emotional and personal problems. Community-based counselling projects are still a rarity in regeneration projects. This article describes the establishment and subsequent history of a counselling project based on an inner-city housing estate in East London, which was undergoing extensive regeneration. It discusses how the service originated from the ongoing work of a participatory action research project and how it challenged stereotypical images of counselling. It demonstrated that free, accessible and locally based counselling services are needed in the regeneration of communities; that extensive planning is necessary both within the organisation and in relation to funding before the project begins; and that on-going core funding is essential to sustaining such innovative and much-needed projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CULTURAL pluralism
PLANNED communities
GOVERNMENT policy
COUNSELING
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02650533
- Volume :
- 23
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Social Work Practice
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 44120636
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02650530903102668