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Incorporating an Eco-Informed Orientation into Family Therapy Education

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This chapter explores how current approaches to family therapy education may be adapted to reflect a more eco-informed approach. Examples are provided for how educators can incorporate an eco-informed orientation into family therapy courses and supervision. This approach is presented within an interdisciplinary framework aimed at promoting greater cultural humility around ecological awareness, knowledge, and skills so that family therapy students and therapists will be better prepared to work with clinical participants in a truly systemic, hence eco-informed manner.

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    Ecosexuals engage in and embrace their erotic experience with the earth; they believe in viewing the earth as a lover (Stephens & Sprinkle, 2011).

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    Sexecology is a field of study that explores the intersectionality of sexology (study of human sexuality) and ecology (study of the relationships between organisms and their environments) (Stephens & Sprinkle, 2011).

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    Markie L. C. Twist

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    Daniela Leon, Amanda J. Korbar & Shannon Yuen

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Twist, M.L.C., Leon, D., Korbar, A.J., Yuen, S. (2019). Incorporating an Eco-Informed Orientation into Family Therapy Education. In: Laszloffy, T., Twist, M. (eds) Eco-Informed Practice. AFTA SpringerBriefs in Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14954-3_10

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