Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy
Guidelines for Equitable Theory and Practice
Teresa McDowell, Carmen Knudson-Martin & J. Maria Bermudez
Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy
Guidelines for Equitable Theory and Practice
Teresa McDowell, Carmen Knudson-Martin & J. Maria Bermudez
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Description
Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy, 2nd edition, is a fully updated and essential textbook that addresses the need for marriage and family therapists to provide socially responsible couple, marriage, and family therapy, infusing diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout theory and clinical practice.
"Attuning to the sociocultural perspective was never a choice but our culture of dominance invisiblizes it, creating colonizing conditions for therapeutic practice. But no more! McDowell, Knudson-Martin, and Bermudez’s socioculturally attuned framework offers theoretically dynamic, contextually sensitive, and relationally ethical ways to unpack the invisible, yet highly felt, role power plays to create third-order change. They show us how this change is an imperative, not a choice, to create just relationships. One of the rich features in this edition are diverse practitioner reflections, across contexts, which afford the reader to engage one’s unique intersectional positionalities in practice. This book needs to be required reading for all practitioners."
Saliha Bava, PhD, Associate Professor, MFT Program, Mercy College; Co-founder & Executive Council Member, International Certificate in Collaborative-Dialogic Practices Network
"Systemic, third-order thinking requires profound and authentic engagement making transformative change at many contextual levels impossible without socioculturally attuned praxis in family therapy. This compelling book challenges family therapists to stay true to their systemic training and consider all the intersections of our relational contexts. It uses a social justice and inclusion lens and has uniquely included the voices of many engaged in transformative third-order thinking and change. It is a must-read for anyone claiming to be a family therapist."
Manijeh Daneshpour, Distinguished Professor of Family Therapy, Alliant International University, California
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.