Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy: Guidelines for Equitable Theory and Practice

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 tos" of changes 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.