PCJ26 Editorial

Since we signed up to work on this journal in summer 2020, the world has changed, of
course. As of this writing, more than seven million people across the world have died from
COVID-191. We all know that the pandemic exposed imbalances of power in every facet of
life, including policing, healthcare, disability and accessibility, body autonomy, relationships,
labor, citizenship status, and education. Multiple wars and genocides are happening at the time of this volume’s release, and technology has made these atrocities even more real to those of us who are geographically far away from them.

Our theme in these pages is power. We extend our appreciation to all who put forth
work for this issue, whether or not it appears here. Perhaps our relatively low submission
count was related to pandemic-related grief and exhaustion, or something much smaller like
using a different email address than the previous year, or our use of a theme for which we received both positive and negative feedback.

As we all determine how we can best respond to the calls-to-action of this moment, we
hope that our community can come together to generate new ideas from our shared values of
self-determination and understanding. If our goal is to nurture the person-centered approach, then we must find a way to write about it, to situate it in this moment, and to engage with each other’s ideas in a way that does justice to the importance of our work.