Negotiating within Whiteness in Cross-Cultural Clinical Encounters

Lee, Eunjung; Bhuyan, Rupaleem

doi:10.1086/669919

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“…In the next expansion of sequences in lines 243‐250, we see Aisha's compliance as she overtly agrees with the therapist's reified binary notion of culture – it's theirs so it should not be mine (Lee and Bhuyan, ). In line 244, Aisha's lexical choice (‘all pretty like intrigued’) evidences her confirmation with Jennifer's view of the other culture as ‘being perplexing’ and ‘surprised’ (in line 243).…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 94%

Joining revisited in family therapy: discourse analysis of cross‐cultural encounters between a therapist and an immigrant family

Lee

Tsang

Bogo

et al. 2017

Journal of Family Therapy

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With increasing diversity in therapeutic dyads, there has been renewed attention to the process of ‘joining’ in cross‐cultural encounters. Inspired by discourse analysis, we conducted a close reading of therapy transcripts between a Pakistani immigrant mother‐daughter dyad and a Canadian white female therapist in an outpatient clinic. Our findings illustrate detailed discursive interactions for joining techniques – selective joining, confirmation, and tracking – (1) where the therapist facilitates joining moments with the family and (2) where the same techniques are used to preclude further exploration of the family's cultural views. Consequently, the joining process is at times limited by the therapist's enactment of her own assumptions about the family's culture. Due to the doxic nature of cultural assumptions, a discursive analysis may help to prevent therapists from silencing their clients’ cultural voices and to be more reflexive of their assumptions, thus promoting joining. Practitioner points Joining in family therapy is a dynamic process The detailed analysis of joining moments can serve as an example for training therapists to examine their moment‐to‐moment responses to culturally diverse clients Therapeutic constructs/techniques (e.g. joining) cannot be decontextualized or conceptualized as apolitical and acultural Critical reflexivity may prevent therapists from unknowingly oppressing culturally diverse clients’ experiences and cultural identities

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 94%

Joining revisited in family therapy: discourse analysis of cross‐cultural encounters between a therapist and an immigrant family

Lee

Tsang

Bogo

et al. 2017

Journal of Family Therapy

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“…Such an analysis is valuable to understanding social and psychological identities, experiences of disenfranchisement, and structural inequities. Comparably, Lee and Bhuyan (2013) examine the encounters racial and ethnic minority clients experience within clinical settings with white therapists. Lee and Bhuyan (2013) suggest social and cultural contexts remain important factors contributing to encounters between the racial minority client and the white therapist.…”

Section: Theme 3: Social Work Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Comparably, Lee and Bhuyan (2013) examine the encounters racial and ethnic minority clients experience within clinical settings with white therapists. Lee and Bhuyan (2013) suggest social and cultural contexts remain important factors contributing to encounters between the racial minority client and the white therapist. The authors utilize video and auto recorded clinical sessions between immigrant clients and white therapists in an urban community mental health center in Canada.…”

Section: Theme 3: Social Work Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Critical Race Theory: A Content Analysis of the Social Work Literature

Campbell

2017

JSR

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Critical Race Theory (CRT) is both a theoretical and practical framework, which promotes a space to deeply engage in discourses of race. CRT highlights the importance of conceptualizing race, racism, power dynamics and structural inequalities. Although the social work profession emphasizes the importance of integrating cultural and racial diversity into social work education, practice and research, the integration of CRT within social work will promote racial competency essential for social work professionals. This article reviewed 14 social work peer-reviewed articles exploring the need to integrate Critical Race Theory.

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“…Despite their actions in challenging racial injustice, there is still resistance to antiracism discourse and a reliance on multicultural discourse in social work education and practice. However, as Lee and Bhuyan (2013) argue, "multicultural discourse in social work relies on a deficit model of culture, which according to social work historian Yoosun Park (2005), constructs culture as difference that must be managed" (p. 103). Further, multicultural social work promotes the discourse of cultural competency, which silences race and racism, depoliticizes culture as neutral and devoid of power relations, and fails to analyze the role of whiteness in social work (Pon, 2009).…”

Section: Efforts To Advance Antiracism In Social Workmentioning

confidence: 99%