Family therapists know that clinical concerns are not separate from larger sociopolitical
contexts. Attunement to clients' sociocultural experience is foundational to good practice, yet …

This article presents alternative ways to respond to events understood as 'traumatic'in most
psychological contexts. It questions the medicalisation and individualisation of persons' …

Therapists who identify as monogamous can hold implicit beliefs about the nature of
relationships. Such biases can overshadow the therapeutic process and impede …

This article describes how the narrative construct is used in the Power Threat Meaning
Framework to refer to personal narratives, cultural narratives and as a meta-theoretical …

It is recognised that parents of children diagnosed with 'intellectual disability'(ID) are
marginalised through ableist social structures. This study was the first to explore if parents of …

This chapter characterizes the assessment conversation in the diagnostic process between
therapist and client as a highly significant and typically overlooked site of identity …

The biomedical model categorizes certain features of suffering and distress as depression.
These same features may receive different conceptualizations within different cultural or …

Postmodern family therapy is one of the newer overarching frameworks for therapeutic
practice. It marks a shift from cybernetic and mechanical metaphors to text‐based …

We work at the Centro de Estudios y Atención a las Personas (CEAP; Centre for Studies and
Counselling Persons) in Viña del Mar, Chile, where we provide counselling and family …

While strongly supportive of the view that schools should be concerned with student
wellbeing and aim to foster and teach for and about wellbeing, the chapter begins on a …