Feminist theories in contemporary couple and family psychology.

Editorial: Social Justice in Family Therapy

“…Within our field, visions of and attention to social justice have deepened and expanded over time. One major emerging focus centered on gender, wherein the highly gendered assumptions in much of family therapy were deconstructed and revised (Goldner, , ; Silverstein & Goodrich, ). A second emerging focus centered on race and culture, through which the extent to which family therapy and family science were based in a white, Western European American view of family was dissected (McGoldrick & Hardy, ) and methods for working in context of the realities of race and culture have been presented (Boyd‐Franklin, ; Falicov, ; Hardy & Bobes, ; McGoldrick & Hardy, ; Patterson, Edwards, & Vakili, ; Watson, ).…”

“…A fourth wave has brought a similar critique toward the heteronormative foundation of these endeavors, highlighting that same sex relationships deserve equal status, that there are many kinds of families, and the fluidity of gender (Addison & Coolhart, ; Goldberg & Sweeney, ; Malpas, ). Building on these advances, an intersectional viewpoint attending to each of these and other related factors (such as immigration status, acculturation, religion, and political identity), promoting social justice, has been highly influential in both research and practice (Falicov, ; McDowell, Knudson‐Martin, & Bermudez, ; Silverstein & Goodrich, ; Walsh, ; Watts‐Jones, ).…”