Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the research trends related to social justice counseling using keyword network analysis and provide implications for future research directions. A total of 25 papers published in domestic academic journals from 2015 to 2022 were analyzed using Textom and UCINET for frequency analysis and network visualization of keywords. The results of this study are as follows: First, papers related to social justice counseling were published in a total of 11 academic journals over a period of approximately 7 years, with 20 studies (80%) conducted with counselors as the subjects. Second, the frequency of occurrence of keywords was observed in the following order: ‘social justice’, ‘multiculturalism’, ‘research’, ‘counselors’, ‘advocacy’, and ‘social justice counseling’. Third, the co-occurrence frequency of keywords appeared in the following order: ‘multiculturalism-social justice counseling’, ‘social justice counseling-supervision’, ‘social justice-advocacy competence’, and ‘social justice-interest’. Fourth, the degree centrality of keywords was highest for ‘research’, ‘social justice’, and ‘multiculturalism’ following a similar order to the rankings of frequency of occurrence. The keywords with high TF-IDF indices were ‘supervision’, ‘multiculturalism’, ‘items’, and ‘counseling competence’. Fifth, the CONCOR analysis resulted in the classification of keywords into seven clusters, which were named as follows: ‘research on social justice’, ‘counselor’s experiences’, ‘counselor’s competency’, ‘application of counseling’, ‘scale development’, ‘programs’ and ‘adolescent’. The findings of this study provide foundational data for research related to social justice counseling and contribute to facilitating discussions on the application of social justice counseling.

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