Overview
- Examines social justice in teaching experiences of systemic family therapy educators
- Focuses on countering harmful practices of racism, sexism, and homophobia in family therapy education
- Promotes social justice accountability and growth in family therapy training
Part of the book series: AFTA SpringerBriefs in Family Therapy (BRIEFSFAT)
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About this book
The book examines the lived experiences of systemic family therapy educators. It addresses the issues of power and justice that they face in family therapy training programs, including their teaching experiences with students, interactions with faculty, and challenges within academic institutions. It describes how family therapy programs attempt to incorporate cultural awareness with mixed results (e.g., focusing only on how to work with diverse clients or not supporting faculty from across social locations). The book explores the ways in which family therapy educators with intersecting marginalized identities continue to be oppressed across different areas of academia.
The book addresses issues of power that systemic family therapy educators face within the academia itself at three different levels:- Personal interactions with students that create more complete understanding of issues of power.
- Professional interactions with colleagues that provide support and accountability.
- Political interventions aimed at changing the larger academic institution.
Chapters focus on countering unjust practices in academic settings. Authors reflect on personal experiences across these three levels and, then, offer concrete suggestions for intervention. These include teaching experiences or meaningful interactions with students that support empowerment or increased awareness; relationships with colleagues that promote accountability and growth; and needed changes or challenges to the larger structure of academia.
Social Justice and Systemic Family Therapy Training is an essential resource for clinicians, therapists, and practitioners as well as researchers, professors, and graduate students in family studies, clinical psychology, and public health as well as all interrelated disciplines.
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Keywords
- Antiracist pedagogy, family therapy, social justice
- Classroom settings, family therapy, social justice
- Collaborative teaching, family therapy, social justice
- Contextually sensitive family therapy, social justice
- Cultural dynamics, family therapy training
- Curriculum development, family therapy education
- Diversity, family therapy training
- Education, training, social justice, family therapy
- Emotional engagement, family therapy education
- Ethics, values, family therapy training
- Interpersonal dynamics, family therapy, social justice
- Intersectional identity, social justice, family therapy
- Marginalization, family therapy education
- Person of the therapist, ethical training
- Racism, family therapy training
- Relational power, privilege, family therapy
- Relational trust, social justice, family therapy
- Self of the therapist, social justice
- Self-disclosure, family therapy education
- Social justice, family therapy, education
Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Justice and Systemic Family Therapy Training
Editors: Lindsey A. Nice, Christie Eppler
Series Title: AFTA SpringerBriefs in Family Therapy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29930-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: American Family Therapy Academy 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-29929-2Published: 01 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-29930-8Published: 31 May 2023
Series ISSN: 2196-5528
Series E-ISSN: 2196-5536
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 114
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Psychotherapy, Family, Group and Systematic Therapy, Education, general, Clinical Psychology, Public Health, Clinical Psychology