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Critical Consciousness, Accountability, and Empowerment: Key Processes for Helping Families Heal
Author(s) -
Hernández Pilar,
Almeida Rhea,
DolanDel Vecchio Ken
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2005.00045.x
Subject(s) - critical consciousness , empowerment , accountability , consciousness , context (archaeology) , psychology , sociology , habitus , sexual orientation , field (mathematics) , social psychology , pedagogy , political science , social science , paleontology , mathematics , neuroscience , cultural capital , pure mathematics , law , biology
Families are inextricably embedded within their larger sociopolitical contexts, an observation acknowledged by many theorists. The field of family therapy is working on its translation into comprehensive and effective approaches for helping families change. This article illustrates the use of the Cultural Context Model to help families change, guided by the linked foundational concepts of accountability, critical consciousness, and empowerment. The authors support their discussion of theory with examples illustrating the ways in which social patterns connected to race, gender, class, and sexual orientation shape the dilemmas that family members encounter, as well as their access to solutions.