Abstract
Social justice is an ideal upheld by family therapists, counseling psychologists, clinical social workers, and many other healthcare professionals. But learning to incorporate social justice talk in therapy can be a challenging endeavor. In this chapter, family therapy interns and supervisors discuss how social justice themes are taken up in clinical supervision, weekly screenings , and activities relating to Research As Daily Practice taking place at the Calgary Family Therapy Centre (CFTC) (St. George et al. in Patterns in interpersonal interactions: Inviting relational understandings for therapeutic change. New York, NY: Routledge, pp. 36–56, 2014). Micro-practices are identified and related to the development of practitioners’ understandings of social justice and their efforts to incorporate these understandings in their work with families. A discussion regarding the potentialities of family therapy as a mode of social action concludes this chapter.
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Snyder, L.J., McIntosh, S., Gosnell, F. (2016). Learning to Speak Social Justice Talk in Family Therapy. In: St. George, S., Wulff, D. (eds) Family Therapy as Socially Transformative Practice. AFTA SpringerBriefs in Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29188-8_5
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