Guiding Principles for Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy

This chapter focuses on the core principles of socioculturally attuned family therapy, including third order thinking and third order change. Authors describe an overarching framework for equity-based practice that considers the impact of socio-relational determinants of health and integrates consideration of societal context and power processes across family therapy models. Guidelines for practice include paying close attention to societal context, social structures, and power processes in relationship to systems of systems. Transtheoretical guidelines for equity-based practice are introduced, which include attuning to context and power, naming injustice, valuing what has been marginalized, intervening in unjust power dynamics, envisioning just alternatives, and supporting transformative change .