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White Privilege: What's a Family Therapist To Do?

¹Evanston Family Therapy Center.

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy

|April 24, 2018

Summary

White family therapists can address institutional racism by increasing awareness of its impact on clients. This involves advocating for systemic changes in education, housing, wealth, and safety to promote a more equitable society.

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Area of Science:

Social Psychology
Family Therapy
Sociology

Background:

Family therapists often operate with unacknowledged privilege, unaware of systemic injustices faced by clients.
Clients frequently confront adversities stemming from institutional racism that therapists may not experience.

Purpose of the Study:

To heighten White family therapists' awareness of institutional racism's pervasive impact.
To propose actionable strategies for therapists to dismantle systemic inequities.

Main Methods:

Conceptual analysis of privilege and institutional racism.
Exploration of therapist awareness and potential interventions.

Main Results:

Family therapists' privilege allows them to overlook systemic injustices.
Clients disproportionately bear the burden of institutional racism.

Conclusions:

White family therapists must actively engage with and challenge institutional racism.
Therapists can promote social justice through advocacy in education, housing, wealth access, and safety.

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