For the reasons outlined in your editorial on Aug. 2 (“Therapy should be a safe place for everyone, including Zionists,” Opinion), the mental health community must look inward.
The National Association of Social Workers code of ethics is clear that social workers center service, social justice, dignity and worth of the person, importance of human relationships, competence, and integrity.
But political rhetoric today has at times become too simplistic and not in keeping with the code. It’s a problem when we seek to uphold the mandate of social justice but categorize people into colonizer or colonized, oppressor or oppressed narratives,
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