Gehart Ch. 3 Flashcards
Rhizomatic
Post-structuralist term referring to ideas that are not hierarchically or linearly related but horizontally networked in such a way that each point connects to all the others.
Much of the foundation for family therapy can be traced back to…
Gregory Bateson, who was not a medical physician like Freud or a psychologist or therapist of any kind. Instead, he was an anthropologist–– he studied human cultures and how societies evolve.
Celia Jaes Falicov
One of the earliest advocates for training family therapists to think and work from a culturally aware perspective. Her work addressed the unique issues of working with Latinx families and immigrants. She authored the book Latino Families in Therapy.
Kenneth Hardy
For nearly half a century, Ken Hardy has been one of the field’s leading voices for increasing awareness of social justice issues. He is President of the Eikenberg Academy for Social Justice, and is Director of the Eikenberg Institute for Relationships in New York City. He also served as Professor of Family Therapy at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the coeditor of Re-Visioning Family Therapy: Addressing Diversity in Clinical Practice; The Enduring, Invisible, Ubiquitous, Centrality of Whiteness; and Culturally Sensitive Supervision and Training.
Monica McGoldrick
Director of the Multicultural Family Institute, Monica McGoldrick has been a leader in the field for nearly half a century. Her publication list is expansive, including Re-Visioning Family Therapy: Addressing Diversity in Clinical Practice, The Expanded Family Life Cycle, and Genogram: Assessment and Treatment. In addition, Ethnicity and Family Therapy provides an extensive and detailed description of family systems for over 40 different ethnicities.
Nancy Boyd-Franklin
Nancy Boyd-Franklin was a pioneer in articulating the experience of Black families in family therapy, which she did in Black Families in Therapy: Understanding the African American Experience, and many of her other works address the intersections of race, class, poverty, and inner-city contexts. She is Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers, New Jersey.
Laurie Charles
A professor in NOVA Southeastern University in Florida, Laurie Charles has been a pioneer in the area of global and international family therapy. She is the author of International Family Therapy and co-editor of Family Systems and Global Humanitarian Mental Health.
Mudita Rostogi
Mudita Rastogi has been a leader in multiple areas of culturally informed family therapy, having edited Voices of Color: First Person Accounts of Ethnic Minority Therapists, Multicultural Couples Therapy, and The Handbook of Systemic Family Therapy: Volume 4. Systemic Family Therapy and Global Health Issues. She has done extensive research on working with Asian Indian Families and currently serves as Department Chair of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at the Family Institute at Northwestern University.
Carmen Knudson-Martin
Carmen Knudson-Martin has been a leader in the areas of both gender equity and socioculturally attuned family therapy. She co-edited Couples, Gender, and Power and Socio-emotionnal Relationship Therapy: Bridging Emotion, Social Context, and Couple Interaction. She is also one of the co-authors of Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy and is Professor Emerita at Lewis and Clark Graduate School in Oregon.
Teresa McDowell
Teresa McDowell has been at the forefront of articulating post-structuralist and critical theory in family therapy as well as articulating the dynamics of social class in treatment. She is one of the co-authors of Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy and is Professor Emerita at Lewis and Clark Graduate School in Oregon.
Maria Bermudez
Maria Bermudez has been a leader in articulating culturally appropriate applications of therapy with Latinx families as well as culturally informed research methods. She is also one of the co-authors of Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy and is an Associate Professor at the University of Georgia.
Rhea Almeida
Rhea Almeida is the founder of the Institute for Family Services in New Jersey and has been an advocate for social justice and decolonizing practices through her Cultural Context Model and Liberation Based Healing Models. She has also co-authored Transformative Family Therapy: Just Families in a Just Society and edited Expansions of Feminist Family Theory Through Diversity.
Intersectionality and Social Location
Intersectionality refers to a person’s multiple / layered identity markers: gender, sexual orientation, SES, etc. Social location refers to considering a person within this complex framework.
Cultural Competence vs. Cultural Humility
Cultural competence refers to knowing how to work with people across cultures. Cultural humility is a lifelong process of self-reflection, self-critique, and openness to the experience of others. Today cultural humility as a construct is widely preferred over cultural competence. Due to intersectionality, each person has a unique social location, and thus it is impossible to become “culturally competent” once and for all.
Equality vs. Equity
Equality is about treating people the same, while equity is about treating people fairly, taking into account prior conditions of injustice, oppression, etc.
