Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy: Guidelines for Equitable Theory and Practice

McDowell, Teresa

ISBN 10: 1032074418 / ISBN 13: 9781032074412

Published by Routledge, 2022

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Synopsis:

Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy, 2nd edition, is a fully updated and essential textbook that addresses the need for marriage and family therapists to engage in socially responsible practice by infusing diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout theory and clinical practice.

Written accessibly by leaders in the field, this new edition explores why sociocultural attunement and equity matter, providing students and clinicians with integrative, equity-based family therapy guidelines and case illustrations that clinicians can apply to their practice. The authors integrate principles of societal context, power, and equity into the core concepts and practice of ten major family therapy models, such as structural family therapy, narrative family therapy, and Bowen family systems, with this new edition including a chapter on socio-emotional relationship therapy. Paying close attention to the "how to’s" of change processes, updates include the use of more diverse voices that describe the creative application of this framework, the use of reflexive questions that can be used in class, and further content on supervision. It shows how the authors have moved their thinking forward, such as in clinical thinking, change, and ethics infused in everyday practice from a third order perspective, and the limits and applicability of SCAFT as a transtheoretical, transnational approach.

Fitting COAMFTE, CACREP, APA, and CSWE requirements for social justice and cultural diversity, this new edition is revised to include current cultural and societal changes, such as Black Lives Matter, other social movements, and environmental justice. It is an essential textbook for students of marriage, couple, and family therapy and important reading for family therapists, supervisors, counselors, and any practitioner wanting to apply a critical consciousness to their work.

About the Author:

Teresa McDowell, EdD, is a professor emerita of MFT at Lewis & Clark’s Graduate School of Education and Counseling. She is a social researcher, program evaluator, consultant, and educator.

Carmen Knudson-Martin, PhD, is a professor of MFT at Lewis & Clark’s Graduate School of Education and Counseling. She is a founder of Socio-Emotional Relationship Therapy (SERT).

J. Maria Bermudez, PhD, is an associate professor in the MFT program at the University of Georgia. Her work centers feminist-informed, culturally responsive approaches to therapy, research, and supervision.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy: ...
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2022
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 2nd Edition