Anti-Racism and Other Emails

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Dr. Kirk answers patron emails.

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0:00.0	Hey, deserving listeners. I thought I would answer patron emails today. This first email is from
0:05.2	M. from Maryland. They write, I've been watching your series on 90-day fiancé and your brief
0:11.6	discussion on colonial ideologies with Lisa and Usman has left me wondering about the ethics of
0:18.1	countering potentially harmful ideologies and clients. Part of me recognizes that attempting to
0:23.7	address such ideologies with clients could damage the therapeutic alliance and that people might
0:29.4	interpret this as an attempt of the therapist to force a certain political perspective onto their
0:34.1	clients. Another part of me feels that not only could silence be interpreted by the client
0:39.9	as an endorsement, but also that failing to name prejudiced ideologies and their sources could
0:45.6	ultimately withhold from the client critical insight as to the source of their emotions in certain
0:51.5	situations. My question is when and how do you ethically address client behaviors that perpetuate
0:57.2	systems of oppression? As a future potential non-binary therapist of color, I do also feel I
1:04.5	have a personal stake in exploring these questions should a client have a prejudiced attitude
1:09.6	toward my identities and of email. Yeah, M. in Maryland, extremely intelligent email and very
1:17.8	well discussed here and what I will say in brief is that this is a tough question and there are
1:25.2	many considerations and you are describing the tension between the two sides very eloquently.
1:31.4	On one hand, we don't want to push our political views on our clients. On the other hand, we need to
1:37.6	stand up for the oppressed and do what is right, do what is moral, and we need to try to help
1:43.6	change our society one person at a time. So what do we do? Do we refrain from saying what was on
1:51.9	our mind and do we refrain from trying to, you know, because essentially what we're trying to do is
1:56.8	say, hey, you have a racist or you have an oppressive or you have a colonial ideology and as
2:03.9	you're a therapist, I'm recommending that you change it. Now, you should probably have a justification
2:10.7	like with Lisa Newsman, for example, on 90 day fiance, the reality TV show that I was reacting to.
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