ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the findings of the research and discusses the ways in which critical reflection on practice developed possibilities for change. It outlines some of the most significant macro themes to emerge from participants' critical reflection on their practice. The chapter explores the macro themes that will be relate to: objectivity and reflexivity; the impact of a structural analysis in reinforcing a sense of powerlessness in practitioners; practitioners' sense of fatalism and agency; the construction of victims/survivors as powerless; and the ways in which participants' construct their advocate role. It uses the language of participant's/their learning/their practice/their accounts for the purposes of grammatical coherence. The deconstruction of practitioners' narratives demonstrated how their participation in various unhelpful discourses had led them to perceive the victims/survivors they were working with as powerless; and ultimately on the disempowered ways that had constructed their own counsellor/advocate roles.
