Raising Multiracial Awareness in Family Therapy Through Critical Conversations

Posted in Articles, Family/Parenting, Identity Development/Psychology, Media Archive, United States on 2011-01-07 22:15Z by Steven

Raising Multiracial Awareness in Family Therapy Through Critical Conversations

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
Volume 31, Issue 4 (October 2005)
pages 399–411
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2005.tb01579.x

Teresa McDowell, Associate Professor and Department Chair of Counseling Psychology
Lewis & Clark University, Portland Oregon

Lucrezia Ingoglia
Greater Lakes Mental Healthcare

Takiko Serizawa
Family Service Associates

Christina Holland
Behavioral Medicine Clinic

John Wayne Dashiell, Jr.
Tacoma, Washington

Christopher Stevens
Renton Area Youth and Family Services

Multiracial families are uniquely affected by racial dynamics in U.S. society. Family therapists must be prepared to meet the needs of this growing population and to support racial equity. This article includes an overview of literature related to being multiracial and offers a framework for working with multiracial identity development in therapy. A critical conversation approach to working with multiracial identity is shared along with case examples. The authors’ experiences developing the model via a practitioner inquiry group are highlighted.

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Biracial Youth and Families in Therapy: Issues and Interventions

Posted in Articles, Identity Development/Psychology, Media Archive, United States on 2010-12-03 01:55Z by Steven

Biracial Youth and Families in Therapy: Issues and Interventions

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
Volume 26, Issue 3
(July 2000)
pages 305–315
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2000.tb00300.x

Stephanie Milan, Assistant Professor of Psychology
University of Connecticut

Margaret K. Keiley, Professor Director of Clinical Research
Center for Children, Youth, and Families
Auburn University

Empirical research and clinical resources focusing specifically on minority youth and families have increased tremendously in the last 2 decades. Despite this trend, certain groups continue to be relatively neglected. In particular, very few resources exist for understanding the unique challenges that often face biracial youth and their families. In this article, we use a nationally representative database to compare functioning in biracial youth to white adolescents and other minority adolescents. Results suggest that biracial/biethnic youth are a particularly vulnerable group in terms of self-reported delinquency, school problems, internalizing symptoms, and self-regard. As a group, they are also more likely to receive some form of psychological intervention. Given these findings and the shortcoming of clinical resources for work with this population, we provide an in-depth discussion of why biracial youth may be particularly vulnerable from a social-constructionist framework and offer several strategies based on narrative family therapy for working with biracial youngsters and their families.

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Raising Multiracial Awareness in Family Therapy through Critical Conversations

Posted in Articles, Family/Parenting, Identity Development/Psychology, Media Archive on 2010-01-18 23:21Z by Steven

Raising Multiracial Awareness in Family Therapy through Critical Conversations

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
Volume 31, Issue 4
Pages 399 – 411
October 2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2005.tb01579.x

Teresa McDowell
School of Family Studies
University of Connecticut

Lucrezia Ingoglia
Greater Lakes Mental Healthcare
Tacoma, Washington

Takiko Seizawa
Family Service Associates
San Antonio, Texas

Christina Holland
Behavioral Medicine Clinic
Olympia, Washington

Wayne Dashiell Jr.
Tacoma, Washington

Christopher Stevens
Renton Youth and Family Services
Renton, Washington

Multiracial families are uniquely affected by racial dynamics in U.S. society. Family therapists must be prepared to meet the needs of this growing population and to support racial equity. This article includes an overview of literature related to being multiracial and offers a framework for working with multiracial identity development in therapy. A critical conversation approach to working with multiracial identity is shared along with case examples. The authors’ experiences developing the model via a practitioner inquiry group are highlighted.

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