Social Justice and Systemic Family Therapy Training
Lindsey A. Nice, "Social Justice and Systemic Family Therapy Training "
English | ISBN: 3031299299 | 2023 | 132 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 3031299299 | 2023 | 132 pages | PDF | 2 MB
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:
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