ABSTRACT
This chapter points to growing income inequality as a bellwether of injustices across society that directly impact mental health and well-being. The authors lament the scant attention paid to social inequity within the counseling and psychotherapy literature as they describe their efforts to build a community of practice around the intersections of clinical supervision and social justice. Supervisees are invited to explore their commitments deeply beyond the initial proclamations of a desire to “help people and make a difference.” This sets the stage for subsequent supervision conversations anchored in supervisees’ values, and leads to a fine-grained examination of unjust social, political, and economic factors that contribute to the problems that people face. Drawing on case studies from the authors’ work, the chapter demonstrates how supervision can be extended to activism that reaches beyond individuals and helps to connect people to the resources and communities that resonate with their causes.
