Decolonizing Family Systems, Relationships, and Practices: Intersectional Perspectives [Paperback]

Centering liberation, justice, and cultural wisdom in the heart of relational work, this book provides a comprehensive and integrative examination of human development and the family life cycle through a decolonized, anti-racist, and intersectional lens.

Introduction: Breaking the Jar: Decolonizing Family Therapy from the Inside Out  Part I: Unpacking Origins: Decolonizing the Foundations of Family Therapy  1. Breaking the Colonial Frame: Power, Privilege, and Family Therapy  2. From Pathology to Liberation: Decolonizing Family Well-Being  3. Beyond the Binary: Decolonizing Gender, Sexuality, and Family Development  4. Family Therapy in the Era of AI: Will Technology Advance or Erase Indigenous & Non-Western Practices?  Part 2: Decolonizing Life Cycle Narratives Systemic Intersections in Family Development  5. Goodbye Birds and the Bees: How Systemic Therapists Can Use a Reproductive Justice Framework to Rethink Family Building  6. Rethinking Childhood: Neurovariance, Cultural Strengths & Decolonialized Development Perspectives  7. Grieving in the Wake of Colonialism: Using Creative Arts to Explore, Process, and Integrate Bio-Psycho-Social-Cultural Perspectives of Loss and Grief Across the Lifespan  Part 3. Beyond Therapy  Collective Healing, Advocacy & Alternative Knowledge Systems  8. Liberating Love: Rewriting the Fairytale and Expanding Relationship Norms  9. Agency-Centered Relational Therapy: Decolonizing Healing & Relationship Work  10. How Family Therapy Knowledge is Made and The World it Makes: Nonprofit Practice, Capitalism, and The Politics of Knowledge  Conclusion