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Since the mid-1970s, RCT scholars have critiqued the prevailing paradigms that guided the expectations for normal human development, optimal psychological functioning, and the primacy of a mutual client-counselor relationship (Jordan & Hartling, 2008). In 1977, Jean Baker Miller, Judith V. Jordan, Irene P. Stiver, and Janet L. Surrey began meeting regularly to support each other in their work, and their conversations grew into discussions about how traditional counseling and therapy approaches often failed or hurt women. As this collaboration evolved, these founding RCT scholars began contemplating new and meaningful ways to honor women’s experiences from developmental and counseling perspectives (Jordan & Hartling, 2008). By 1981, they established the Stone Center at Wellesley College and published an array of papers that continued to evolve the theoretical foundations and counseling applications of RCT (Jordan & Hartling, 2008). In 1995, the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute was established at Wellesley College and still exists today.

RCT scholars continue to expand RCT approaches in numerous counseling settings (Hartling & Lindner, 2016) and to promulgate these principles among international colleagues to address humiliation and promote dignity across the world. The Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies network comprises a group of scholars and professionals who work to promote dignity worldwide and end systemic abuse across the globe (Hartling & Lindner, 2016). These efforts represent concerted efforts from RCT practitioners to address the roots of injustice, witness and honor humiliation that many feel, and cultivate dignity among all people. RCT is grounded in social justice, advocacy, and respect for people among cultures, and RCT practitioners long recognized and address power abuse, the weight of unearned privilege as a power-over dynamic, and the social and cultural factors of oppression.