Ethical and Legal Issues Unique to Systemic Family Therapy

Murphy, Megan J.; Hecker, Lorna L.

doi:10.1002/9781119438519.ch23

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“…Learning to work with concepts of power and sociocultural context impacts the role of the therapist. Despite good intentions, so-called "neutral" approaches inadvertently reinforce inequitable power processes and impede therapeutic progress (Dolan-Del Vecchio, 2019;Hardy & McGoldrick, 2019;Murphy & Hecker, 2020). In contrast, placing equity at the center of therapy requires therapists to be aware of their positionality and interact flexibly and responsively with each person to actively interrupt and transform relational power imbalances (Knudson-Martin & Huenergardt, 2010;Knudson-Martin et al, 2015).…”

Section: Social Justice Foundationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Learning to Embody a Social Justice Perspective in Couple and Family Therapy: A Grounded Theory Analysis of MFTs in Training

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This action research study explores how four MFT students shifted from a cognitive understanding of equity and power to an intrinsic and automatic internalized process as we participated in research in which we observed, coded, and engaged in structured reflexive conversations about relational power using a data bank of Socio Emotional Relationship Therapy sessions. We reviewed and analyzed ten of our recorded two-hour reflexive conversations to develop grounded theory that explains our experience of learning to embody a relational power lens, which consists of five interconnected phases: (a) developing a theoretical understanding of relational power, (b) critically observing live therapy, (c) noticing and attending to the felt sense of witnessing power, (d) engaging in transformative conversation, and (e) applying to personal practice. Our findings provide guidance for clinical training programs who wish to facilitate the experience for clinicians-in-training to understand and address societal power processes in clinical practice. Keywords Clinical training • Supervision • Social justice • Couple therapy • Socio-emotional • Relationship therapy • Power and equity • RelationshipsCouple and family therapy training programs are called upon to facilitate "development of competencies in understanding and applying knowledge of diversity, power, privilege, and oppression" (COAMFTE Foundational Curriculum Area 3, version 12.5). Considerable literature addresses why this attention to social justice is important (e.g., Rambo, 2018;Watson et al., 2020), and an emerging body of work is beginning to detail what equitable, socially responsible practice looks like (

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Section: Social Justice Foundationsmentioning

confidence: 99%