Robert Allan – författare

This progressive volume takes a nuanced approach to understanding systemic therapies with diverse client populations, leading to culturally responsive therapy. Synthesizing diverse streams of psychology, philosophy, and social theory, chapters focus on cutting-edge issues in couple and family therapy including social justice, power, and privilege in therapy, the role of evidence-based practices, and integrative approaches to couple and family therapy. Each contributor is either a recent immigrant to the U.S. or a person of color, bringing unique personal lenses and experiences to the exploration of the topics. And coverage also makes clear what white therapists need to learn—and unlearn—before they can work responsively with clients of color.  This practice-building reference: Combines research with applied knowledge in its treatment of topics.Adapts systemic therapy practice into today’s culturally diverse contexts.Explores themes of power, privilege, and social justice in each chapter.Presents multiculturalism in terms of therapeutic responsiveness.Critiques approaches to systemic therapy with immigrant clients and clients of color.Challenges readers to access deeper concepts and realities of self, other, and trust.Updating familiar takes on cultural competence with both local and global implications, Cross-Cultural Responsiveness and Systemic Therapy describes numerous opportunities for and challenges to couple and family therapy, as well as cross-disciplinary opportunities for incorporating social justice and cultural responsiveness in training and supervision of couple and family therapists.

This important resource offers theoretical and practical approaches to understanding and working with cultural realities in training and supervision, particularly in family therapy. Clinical wisdom, empirical findings, real-world examples, and hands-on suggestions demonstrate the vital role of building and sustaining cultural awareness, both in supervisory work with trainees and in therapists providing fair, effective, and relevant services to clients. In the book’s multiple perspectives on the complexities of cultural identity, the attainment of cultural safety is shown as an ongoing process, part of professional development as well as self-knowledge across the lifespan. Critical distinctions are also drawn between cultural safety and relatively static concepts within cross-cultural competencies.Included in the coverage:A framework for integrating an understanding of oppression dynamics in clinical work and supervision.Expandingconversations about cultural responsiveness in supervision.When dominant culture values meet diverse clinical settings: perspectives from an African American supervisor.Safety and social justice in the supervisory relationship.Towards safe and equitable relationships: sociocultural attunement in supervision.Comprehensive multicultural curriculum: self-awareness as process.        Developing cultural awareness and sensitivity through simulation.Creating Cultural Safety in Couple and Family Therapy will enhance the work of social workers, mental health professionals, and practitioners working family therapy cases seeking perspectives on addressing diverse multicultural realities as they intersect with clinical supervision and training.