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

Editorial: Social Justice in Family Therapy

“…Further, discussion of social justice remains primarily nested in certain (albeit large) communities of family therapists and family researchers. Some approaches to family therapy, such as narrative therapy (which privileges the voice of the less powerful as a foundation to treatment; Combs, ), other post‐structural therapies (Waldegrave, ), and therapies with foundations in legacies of social injustice such as Liberation healing (Almeida, Dressner, & Tolliver, ) fully embrace social justice and place it at the center of therapy. Other approaches and therapists selectively attend to issues of social justice in relation to work with specific populations where such issues are especially prominent, for example, intimate partner violence (Simpson Rowe & Jouriles, ), family homelessness (Haskett & Armstrong, ), families involved in food systems programs (Morrissey, ), or LGBTQ families (Green & Mitchell, ).…”