1st Edition
Decolonizing Family Systems, Relationships, and Practices Intersectional Perspectives
Introduction: Breaking the Jar: Decolonizing Family Therapy from the Inside Out
Jennifer M. Sampson and Fiona E. O’Farrell
Part I: Unpacking Origins: Decolonizing the Foundations of Family Therapy
1. Breaking the Colonial Frame: Power, Privilege, and Family Therapy
Cayla Minaiy
2. From Pathology to Liberation: Decolonizing Family Well-Being
Zain Shamoon and Jarryn Robinson-Ellis
3. Beyond the Binary: Decolonizing Gender, Sexuality, and Family Development
Sar Surmick
4. Family Therapy in the Era of AI: Will Technology Advance or Erase Indigenous and Non-Western Practices?
Jacey Saucedo Coy
Part II: 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
Jennifer M. Sampson
6. Rethinking Childhood: Neurovariance, Cultural Strengths, and Decolonialized Development Perspectives
Jessica Leith Claus
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
Dani Baker and Alyssa Griskiewicz
Part III. Beyond Therapy: Collective Healing, Advocacy, and Alternative Knowledge Systems
8. Liberating Love: Rewriting the Fairytale and Expanding Relationship Norms
Fiona E. O’Farrell
9. Agency-Centered Relational Therapy: Decolonizing Healing and Relationship Work
Tai Lee
10. How Family Therapy Knowledge is Made and The World it Makes: Nonprofit Practice, Capitalism, and The Politics of Knowledge
marcela polanco
Conclusion
Jennifer M. Sampson and Fiona E. O’Farrell
Biography
Jennifer M. Sampson, PhD, LMFT, CST-S, is an educator, systemic clinician, AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and Supervisor, and AAMFT Approved Supervisor.
Fiona E. O’Farrell, PhD, LMFT, CST-S, is the Program Director of the Marriage and Family Therapy program at Pacific Lutheran University, an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and Supervisor, and an AAMFT Approved Supervisor.
