Summary:
This book brings together in one volume the work of the Just Therapy Team of New Zealand, which has, over the last two decades, inspired and challenged therapists and community workers in many different countries and contexts. Their introduction of the term “Just Therapy” and their determination to bring issues of gender, culture and socioeconomic justice into therapeutic considerations have had powerful implications. So too has their example of taking the personal stories of those who consult them as therapists into broader political and policy arenas. The Just Therapy Team’s committed, dignified and caring cultural partnerships have signaled alternative ways of conceptualizing working relationships. Their descriptions of therapy as a sacred encounter, their honouring of Indigenous traditions of spirituality, and the ways in which they always seek culturally appropriate healing ways have changed forever our understandings of the responsibilities of therapists and healers. This book describes their work in detail. We hope it will act as a resource both for those familiar with the work of the Just Therapy Team and those seeking an introduction to their exciting and challenging ideas.

Contents:
1. Just therapy / Charles Waldegrave --
2. Just therapy with families and communities / Charles Waldegrave --
3. Cultural and gender accountability in the "just therapy" approach / Kiwi Tamasese & Charles Waldegrave --
4. Furthering conversation about partnerships / Kiwi Tamasese, Charles Waldegrave, Flora Tuhaka, & Warihi Campbell --
5. Therapy as metaphorical reflection / Charles Waldegrave --
6. Family therapy and the question of power / Kiwi Tamasese & Charles Waldegrave (interviewer Ian Law) --
7. The challenges of culture to psychology and postmodern thinking / Charles Waldegrave --
8. Grappling with a contemporary and inclusive spirituality / Charles Waldegrave --
9. A spiritual prison tale / Warihi Campbell --
10. In the beginning / Warihi Campbell & Flora Tuhaka --
11. Pura pura tuku iho (The seed that has been passed down) / Flora Tuhaka --
12. Honouring Samoan ways and understanding / Kiwi Tamasese --
13. Multiple sites of healing / Kiwi Tamasese --
14. Gender and culture --
together / Kiwi Tamasese --
15. Gender --
the impact of western definitions of womanhood on other cultures / Kiwi Tamasese & Luamanuvao Winnie Laban --
16. Stop abuse project / Kiwi Tamasese --
17. Challenges from within the culture / Warihi Campbell.