The Black Lives Matter Movement: A Call to Action for Couple and Family Therapists

Kelly, Shalonda; Jérémie-Brink, Gihane; Chambers, Anthony L.; Bynum, Mia Smith

doi:10.1111/famp.12614

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“…Many excellent ideas for anti-racist clinical practice have been proposed (see, e.g. Coard et al, 2004;Gaztambide, 2019Gaztambide, , 2021Kelly et al, 2020;Legha & Miranda, 2020;Maiter, 2009); further, a social justice framework is central to many models of counseling psychology (Hargons et al, 2017), social work (International Federation of Social Workers et al, 2012, and community psychology (Nelson & Prilleltensky, 2010). Here we highlight two themes of particular relevance to attachment-informed interventions.…”

Section: Imagining Anti-racist Clinical Practicementioning

confidence: 94%

Working toward anti-racist perspectives in attachment theory, research, and practice

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Barbarin

Cassidy

2021

Attachment & Human Development

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Recent social movements have illuminated systemic inequities in U.S. society, including within the social sciences. Thus, it is essential that attachment researchers and practitioners engage in reflection and action to work toward anti-racist perspectives in the field. Our aims in this paper are (1) to share the generative conversations and debates that arose in preparing the Special Issue of Attachment & Human Development, "Attachment Perspectives on Race, Prejudice, and Anti-Racism"; and (2) to propose key considerations for working toward anti-racist perspectives in the field of attachment. We provide recommendations for enriching attachment theory (e.g. considering relations between caregivers' racial-ethnic socialization and secure base provision), research (e.g. increasing the representation of African American researchers and participants), and practice (e.g. advocating for policies that reduce systemic inequities in family supports). Finally, we suggest two relevant models integrating attachment theory with perspectives from Black youth development as guides for future research.

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Section: Imagining Anti-racist Clinical Practicementioning

confidence: 94%

Working toward anti-racist perspectives in attachment theory, research, and practice

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Barbarin

Cassidy

2021

Attachment & Human Development

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“…Additionally, culturally informed parenting instruction might incorporate strategies that acknowledge oppressive experiences of marginalized populations while also exploring assets and resilience. Within African American populations, research has shown the importance of validating racial trauma, while also educating families about Black cultural strengths and racial socialization practices as therapeutic resources and protective factors for children's adjustment (Anderson, McKenny, & Stevenson, 2018; Kelly, Jérémie‐Brink, Chambers, & Smith‐Bynum, 2020).…”

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“…These assessments have typically focused on child abuse, interpersonal violence, major medical or stressful life events, and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Kaiser Permanente, 2016). Similarly, practitioners are encouraged to inquire about the presence of cultural trauma and the relative impact on each family member and family processes (Evans‐Campbell, 2008; Kelly et al, 2020). Practitioners will want to know if there is an intergenerational transmission of values about interactions with court and legal systems that has resulted in heightened hypervigilance and reactivity.…”

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One Size Really Does Not Fit All: The Importance of Incorporating Culturally Relevant Adaptations in Reunification Therapy

Harris-Britt¹,

Paces-Wiles²,

Wax³

2021

Family Court Review

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Reunification therapy is specialized family therapy to address parent–child relational disruption (i.e. child resistance to or refusal of parent contact), typically during or following a high‐conflict divorce or custody dispute. The literature discussing reunification therapy interventions with families involving racial diversity, SES, religiosity, and other socio‐cultural aspects is limited to non‐existent. In the move towards being culturally sensitive to the ever‐present multitude of identities that exist within family systems, professionals are challenged to develop a balanced approach between providing competent practice that is culturally sound and considering empirical evidence. This paper offers suggestions for enhancing evidence‐informed interventions to address parent–child contact problems within diverse populations by incorporating culturally specific interventions to increase parenting skills, reduce parent and child distress, and repair attachments through therapeutic experiences.

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“…The answers to such questions are not simple. Fortunately, we have recently seen a flourishing of work and writing in relation to larger system issues that includes many papers connected to the crises around COVID‐19 (Falicov et al, 2020; Fraenkel & Cho, 2020; Watson et al, 2020; Weingarten et al, 2020), as well as increased attention to racism (Anderson et al, 2019; Kelly et al, 2020) and immigration (López‐Zerón et al, 2020). Similarly, research seems to be beginning to extend further into attending to larger system issues and their impact (Bernal et al, 2019; Bornstein & Lansford, 2019; Chung et al, 2021; Ferguson & Evans, 2019; Hoang et al, 2020; López‐Zerón et al, 2020; Patterson et al, 2018; Zhang & Han, 2020).…”

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Attending to the larger system in systemic therapy and family research

Lebow

2021

Family Process

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Attending to the larger system in systemic therapy and family researchFamily Process recently marked its 60th anniversary with a conference entitled "The Heart of The Matter: Systemic Imperatives To Address Health Disparities And Racism In The Time of Covid." The conference was stirring and highly informative. We hope to be able to publish some of the papers from the conference soon. Here, I write about a broader issue raised at the conference, the role of attending to the larger system in systemic therapy and family research.Attending to the larger system as an aspect of therapy was intrinsic to most early versions of systemic therapy. Human systems were envisioned as organized into a variety of increasingly larger levels: the individual, the dyad, the nuclear family, the extended family system, the sub-culture, and the society. Each systemic level was seen as affected by and affecting each other level in an ever-evolving circular set of processes (Bateson, 1972;Bertalanffy, 1973;Minuchin, 1974). From this perspective, a very important place was assigned to what is occurring in groupings larger than the family, most especially the macrosystem (Imber- Black, 1990;Schwartzman, 1985;Tolan & Guerra, 1998;Walsh, 1985). In parallel, from origins in research in developmental psychology, Bronfenbrenner developed ecological systems theory (Bronfenbrenner, 1972(Bronfenbrenner, , 1979, emphasizing the reciprocal influences across levels of the social system he termed the microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem. Notably, three of these five systems lie outside the family.The impact of such viewpoints accentuating larger systems was enormous. In clinical practice, family therapists attended to influences lying beyond the family system and attempted to work with these interfaces in the context of therapy (Imber-Black, 1991;Minuchin, 1967)even attending to community issues and social networks (Speck & Attneave, 1974). Research frequently focused on families in relation to larger systems in which they were embedded (Anderson, 1982). As an extension of both these activities, family therapists and family researchers often crossed into trying to influence public policy (Doherty, 2000;Doherty & Carroll, 2002).A misfortune for those of us involved in family science and/or the practice of couple and family therapy is that ideas and methods come into focus and fade out of focus in relation to a range of factors that include, not only evolving development of our methods, but also such factors as the zeitgeist of the time and the presence of influential figures who persuasively voice those ideas and methods. As family science progressed toward better research methods and greater validity, generalizability, and replication of findings, and as the clinical practice of systemic therapies progressed toward more effective, inclusive, and evidence-based interventions, both became more narrowly focused on the nuclear family. Mostly, the exploration of what was occurring beyond family relationships went inward toward w...

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The Black Lives Matter Movement: A Call to Action for Couple and Family Therapists

Cited by 46 publications

References 71 publications

Working toward anti-racist perspectives in attachment theory, research, and practice

Working toward anti-racist perspectives in attachment theory, research, and practice

One Size Really Does Not Fit All: The Importance of Incorporating Culturally Relevant Adaptations in Reunification Therapy

Attending to the larger system in systemic therapy and family research

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