Towards Safe and Equitable Relationships: Sociocultural Attunement in Supervision

Kim, Lana; Wilson, Elisabeth Esmiol; ChenFeng, Jessica; Knudson‐Martin, Carmen

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-64617-6_6

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“…MFT educators and supervisors are advised to initiate conversations about power and privilege and sociocultural context and promote critical self-reflection and awareness (ChenFeng et al, 2017;Hardy & Bobes, 2017). They are also encouraged to support therapist development by helping supervisees focus on contextual issues in case conceptualization, attune to the social context of emotion, and manage power processes (Kim et al, 2017). According to Falicov (2014), "If supervisees gain a better understanding of how injustice has affected clients' lives and help them become better prepared to deal with present and future injustices, the treatment has been at least partially an act of social justice " (p. 46).…”

Section: Therapist Developmentmentioning

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: Therapist Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%