Positive psychologists have contributed to our understandings of how positive emotions and flexible cognition enhance resiliency. However, positive psychologists' research has been slow to address the relational resources and interactions that help nonheterosexual families overcome adversity. Addressing overlooked lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ) and systemic factors in positive psychology, this article draws on family resilience literature and LGBTQ literature to theorize a systemic positive psychology framework for working with nonheterosexual families. We developed the LGBTQ relationally based positive psychology framework that integrates positive psychology's strengths-based perspective with the systemic orientation of Walsh's (1996) family resilience framework along with the cultural considerations proposed by LGBTQ family literature. We theorize that the LGBTQ relationally based positive psychology framework takes into consideration the sociopolitical adversities impacting nonheterosexual families and sensitizes positive psychologists, including those working in organized care settings, to the systemic interactions of same-sex loving relationships.
Abstract. The effectiveness of both mental health education and clinical practices is often limited by an overemphasis on US perspectives and approaches. Based on a lens and practice of reflexivity within international community psychology, this article describes a theater-based practice that is both an educational tool for training mental health providers and a community mental health intervention. This practice is based on an integration of the work of three Latin American theorists: Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed, Ignacio Martín-Baró’s liberation psychology, and Paulo Freire’s Critical Pedagogy. The approach we will describe integrates these Latin American originating theories with the practical and pragmatic clinical and theoretical assumptions of walk-in/single-session therapy. This mental health perspective addresses many of the barriers to services faced by underserved and international populations. We will discuss how we have utilized these ideas and practices by developing a form of street theater that provides educational opportunities for future mental health providers and creates community dialogues about common clinical concerns in Mexico City.
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