Decolonizing Couples and Family Therapy: Social Justice Praxis in Liberatory Healing Community Practice

Almeida, Rhea V.; Dressner, Lisa; Tolliver, Willie

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“…One practice is normalizing and honoring Africultural coping patterns and resilience manifested by African American couples and families in response to racism, challenging family members' internalized racism, and validating the couple's/family's construction of a different narrative (Comas‐Diaz, 2016). A second practice is highlighting how systemic influences of power, inequity, and racism negatively impact the emotional connections and adaptive interactions within the couple/family system (Almeida et al, 2018). This involves structuring therapeutic discussions so they attend to the ways the personal and the political, the couple/family system, and the larger society are inextricably interwoven.…”

Section: Intervene In a Culturally Responsive Anti‐racist And Sociall...mentioning

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Culturally humble and anti‐racist couple and family interventions for African Americans

Kaslow,

Clarke,

Hampton‐Anderson

2023

Family Process

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Anti‐Black racism including structural racism and racism‐related disparities have come to the foreground in recent years with the increasingly frequent and brutal police killings of innocent African Americans, the disproportionate impacts of the pandemic on the Black community, and the effectiveness of the Black Lives Matter movement. There have been calls to action to ensure cultural effectiveness of couples and family therapy for African Americans. As one response to these calls, this article provides recommendations for culturally humble and anti‐racist couple and family interventions. These best practices focus on the necessity of embracing a systemic stance and a strengths‐based culturally responsive lens when assessing and intervening with African American couples and families. They focus on the need for therapists to be intentional about and consistent in engaging in self‐exploration and taking the necessary steps to be not just competent but also capable. The final set of best practices detailed relate to assessing and intervening using a strengths‐based approach in a culturally responsive, anti‐racist, and socially attuned fashion. The article concludes with recommendations for couple/family therapists to develop a critical consciousness, engage in anti‐racist practices, and address oppression while advancing healing and liberation, all of which are essential to ensuring the resilience and well‐being of African American couples and families.

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confidence: 99%

Culturally humble and anti‐racist couple and family interventions for African Americans

Kaslow,

Clarke,

Hampton‐Anderson

2023

Family Process

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“…'Coloniality refers to the episteme and profound presuppositions about a global order that structured countries and communities into classes of human and subhuman, based upon race, gender, religion plus other categories, and enslaved indigenous communities towards the benefit of the colonizers who professed only for themselves the 'virtues' of knowledge and righteousness [15]. Coloniality gets manifested in three interconnected reciprocally dependent types, 'systems of hierarchy', (racial division and classification as the principle of White supremacy), 'systems of knowledge', (privileging Western or Eurocentric forms of knowledge as universal and objective) and 'societal systems' (reinforcing hierarchies through the creation of the state and specific institutions to regulate, segregate, and diminish decolonizing systems of healing and lived experiences) [16]. 'The control of history, knowledge, health, and justice are traits concerning the colonial matrix of power, or coloniality' [17].…”

Section: Need For Emancipationmentioning

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Emancipatory Concepts for Newer Understanding – A View from the Periphery

2022

JEPR

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The present that we dwell in gets constituted by varied institutional and ideological fixations that shape our views, rationalities, desires, and they also condition the way we perceive our realities. We live in a society where commercial wealth gets acclaimed, destructive power gets sought, markets become the priority, and experts rationalise. In the current global structure, we see the establishment of fixed regimes that, through various ways, perpetuate a myth that the existing state of global condition is but natural. Even if one is a firm believer in the current global neoliberal structure, the question arises; who decides what is ideal in the first place? The authors here discuss the need for emancipation from existing practices. We move forward by tinkering with the term emancipation and following a nomadic reflexive methodology. The article looks at the historical conditions that necessitated the desire for emancipation and the various concepts developed in the quest for emancipation. The concepts mentioned can be used as a stepping stone and function as threshold concepts for those from diverse educational backgrounds.

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Editorial: Social Justice in Family Therapy

Lebow¹

2019

Family Process

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Decolonizing Couples and Family Therapy: Social Justice Praxis in Liberatory Healing Community Practice

Cited by 3 publications

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Culturally humble and anti‐racist couple and family interventions for African Americans

Culturally humble and anti‐racist couple and family interventions for African Americans

Emancipatory Concepts for Newer Understanding – A View from the Periphery

Editorial: Social Justice in Family Therapy

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