Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy

Guidelines for Equitable Theory and Practice

Teresa McDowell, Carmen Knudson-Martin, J. Maria Bermudez

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781032106809
• eBook ISBN: 9781000688849
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Psychotherapy
• Index: Psychology

Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy, 2nd edition, is a fully updated and essential textbook that addresses the need for marriage and family therapists to engage in socially responsible practice by infusing diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout theory and clinical practice.

Written accessibly by leaders in the field, this new edition explores why sociocultural attunement and equity matter, providing students and clinicians with integrative, equity-based family therapy guidelines and case illustrations that clinicians can apply to their practice. The authors integrate principles of societal context, power, and equity into the core concepts and practice of ten major family therapy models, such as structural family therapy, narrative family therapy, and Bowen family systems, with this new edition including a chapter on socio-emotional relationship therapy. Paying close attention to the "how to's" of change processes, updates include the use of more diverse voices that describe the creative application of this framework, the use of reflexive questions that can be used in class, and further content on supervision. It shows how the authors have moved their thinking forward, such as in clinical thinking, change, and ethics infused in everyday practice from a third order perspective, and the limits and applicability of SCAFT as a transtheoretical, transnational approach.

Fitting COAMFTE, CACREP, APA, and CSWE requirements for social justice and cultural diversity, this new edition is revised to include current cultural and societal changes, such as Black Lives Matter, other social movements, and environmental justice. It is an essential textbook for students of marriage, couple, and family therapy and important reading for family therapists, supervisors, counselors, and any practitioner wanting to apply a critical consciousness to their work.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword to First Edition by Fred P. Piercy
• Foreword to the Second Edition by Stephanie Brooks
• Preface to the 2nd Edition
• Acknowledgements
• List of Contributors
• Author Bios
• 1 What is sociocultural attunement and why is it important?
• 2 Guiding Principles for Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy
• 3 Third Order Ethics and Contextual Self-in-Relationship
• 4 Socioculturally Attuned Structural Family Therapy
• 5 Socioculturally Attuned Brief and Strategic Family Therapies
• 6 Socioculturally Attuned Experiential Family Therapy
• 7 Socioculturally Attuned Attachment based Family Therapies
• 8 Socioculturally Attuned Bowenian Family Therapy
• 9 Socioculturally Attuned Contextual Family Therapy
• 10 Socioculturally Attuned Cognitive Behavioral Family Therapy
• 11 Socioculturally Attuned Solution Focused Family Therapy
• 12 Socioculturally Attuned Collaborative Family Therapy
• 13 Socioculturally Attuned Narrative Family Therapy
• 14 Socio-Emotional Relationship Therapy: An Example of Socioculturally Attuned Couple and Family Therapy
• 15 Socioculturally Attuned Praxis: Consciousness in Action
• Index