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

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

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-49425-8_823

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“…By failing to integrate ecological systems theories into the counseling profession and practice, counselors inevitably uphold/maintain white supremacy and hegemonic values around family dynamics, which manifests as (a) ignoring historical trauma and migration loss, (b) not addressing power/oppression, (c) overlooking the connection of clients with their social contexts (Almeida et al., 2019), and (d) imposing a Western definition of health onto clients with unique cultural values and ideals. Pioneers of the counseling profession distinguished and delineated counseling from other helping professions based on the centrality of prevention and wellness as core aspects of professional identity (Kaplan et al., 2014).…”

Section: Historical Foundations Of Counseling and The Need For Modern...mentioning

confidence: 99%

An ecologically informed transdisciplinary prevention model for Black and Latine family wellbeing

Lozada,

Wheeler,

Green

et al. 2024

Jour of Counseling & Develop

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Given noted racial disparities in mental health and wellbeing, Black and Latine families are often the focus of prevention and intervention efforts. These efforts are traditionally embedded in deficit perspectives about these communities, ignoring their cultural wealth and collective agency. Yet increasing recognition of the interconnected systems and social determinants that lead to racial disparities and negative outcomes among Black and Latine populations requires counselors and other practitioners to broaden their conceptions of prevention and engage in collaboration to develop more effective and comprehensive prevention efforts. In the current paper, we provide an ecologically informed transdisciplinary model of family empowerment, prevention, and wellbeing with Black and Latine families. We apply this model to counseling practice as a potential roadmap for future counseling prevention work with Black and Latine families.

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Section: Historical Foundations Of Counseling and The Need For Modern...mentioning

confidence: 99%

An ecologically informed transdisciplinary prevention model for Black and Latine family wellbeing

Lozada,

Wheeler,

Green

et al. 2024

Jour of Counseling & Develop

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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.…”

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

Cited by 2 publications

References 17 publications

An ecologically informed transdisciplinary prevention model for Black and Latine family wellbeing

An ecologically informed transdisciplinary prevention model for Black and Latine family wellbeing

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

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