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Socioculturally attuned family therapy is a transtheoretical framework that provides guidelines for equitable practice. The approach builds on existing family therapy models by integrating interdisciplinary concepts for understanding the impact societal systems, culture, and power have on individuals, families, and communities. Social and relational justice are recognized as important to positive mental health and relational wellbeing and thus integral to good practice. Founders of this framework, Teresa McDowell, Carmen Knudson-Martin, and J. Maria Bermudez, demonstrate how analysis of societal context and power can be infused into existing family therapy models in ways that are theoretically congruent and provide specific practice guidelines within each approach for supporting just relationships among all populations. Sociocultural attunement is defined as awareness of the impact of the relationship between societal systems, culture, and power along with the willingness...
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McDowell, T., Knudson-Martin, C., Maria Bermudez, J. (2019). Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy. In: Lebow, J.L., Chambers, A.L., Breunlin, D.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49425-8_1093
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