Examining Mental Health Professionals' Social Justice Attitudes in Turkey
Articles > Article · 2018
Authors: Dilek Yelda KAĞNICI, Serkan DENİZLİ
EURASIAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH, Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded, International, 2018, pp 19-35
Summary
Purpose: Mental health professionals' personal values have a critical role in providing efficient services to culturally diverse clients, being social advocates, and promoting social justice. In the present study, mental health professionals in Turkey were assumed to be grouped under three categories: the ones who are sensitive, who are rigid, and who are apathetic based on their Belief in a Just World, moral identity, open-mindedness, and social dominance orientation mindedness, and social dominance orientation scores. The study aimed to examine the scores. The study aimed to examine the differences among these three groups of mental health professionals in Turkey in relation to social justice.