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From Knowing to Doing: Guidelines for Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy
Author(s) -
KnudsonMartin Carmen,
McDowell Teresa,
Bermudez J. Maria
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/jmft.12299
Subject(s) - attunement , transtheoretical model , family therapy , sociocultural evolution , psychology , context (archaeology) , psychotherapist , engineering ethics , sociology , social psychology , behavior change , medicine , alternative medicine , paleontology , pathology , anthropology , biology , engineering
Family therapists know that clinical concerns are not separate from larger sociopolitical contexts. Attunement to clients’ sociocultural experience is foundational to good practice, yet few guidelines integrate attention to the larger societal processes or address social equity. The purpose of this article is to help therapists move from knowing about sociocontextual issues to doing socioculturally attuned practice. We offer an overarching framework that returns to Bateson and the roots of family therapy through a call for third order transformation. The approach is responsive to societal context and an analysis of power while working through enduring concepts of major family therapy models. Transtheoretical guidelines that can be integrated across practice models to promote third order change are illustrated with case examples.