title: Couples Work in Cultural Context: Te Ao Māori and Poststucturalist Practices Informing Counselor Training in Aotearoa New Zealand.
abstract: This article outlines key themes that appear in the teaching of poststructuralist ideas and practices for couples counseling within the Postgraduate Diploma in Counseling Program at Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand, and it explores the congruence of this pedagogical approach with Māori (indigenous) understandings of relationality, collaboration, and partnership. The diploma program's curriculum includes narrative therapy and relational language-making. Themes explored in this article include: understanding (heterosexual) couple relationships as contextualized entities, deconstructing dominant discourses of coupledom, and the positioning of counselors/teachers as nonexpert. Taking each theme in turn, the authors, one of them Māori and two Pākehā (European), articulate points of alignment with Māori cultural concepts and practices.
authors.affiliation: Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Helene
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Connor
authors.affiliation: Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Helen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gremillion
authors.affiliation: Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Yolanda
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Meima
mesh_terms: D003376:Counseling / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods*; D000072117:Counselors / Q000193:education*; D019546:Couples Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D003469:Culture; D003479:Curriculum; D006801:Humans; D009520:New Zealand; D044382:Population Groups / Q000523:psychology
keywords: Couples Counseling; Narrative Therapy; Poststructuralism; Te Ao Māori; posestructuralismo; terapia de pareja; terapia narrativa; 伴侣心理咨询; 叙事心理治疗; 后结构主义