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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology

Background:

  • Psychological movements increasingly emphasize client collaboration to resist oppression.
  • Professional guidelines highlight the role of social and environmental factors in client conceptualization.
  • There's a growing need to consider power, privilege, and institutional disparities in psychological practice.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the integration of sociocultural identities within systems of power and oppression in case conceptualization.
  • To advocate for improved socioenvironmental contexts and challenge structural oppression.
  • To demonstrate how foundational contributions from Black psychology, intersectionality, liberation psychology, Indigenous, and radical healing can inform case conceptualization.

Main Methods:

  • Review of foundational contributions from various psychological movements.
  • Presentation of a composite case example illustrating client distress interwoven with structural forces.
  • Demonstration of psychodynamic case conceptualization infused with attention to structural forces.

Main Results:

  • Structural forces significantly shape and perpetuate client distress.
  • Integrating structural competency requires addressing how these forces develop and are maintained.
  • Advocacy beyond the therapy session is necessitated.

Conclusions:

  • Case conceptualization must move beyond individual assessments to engage with clients' sociocultural identities within systems of power.
  • Psychotherapy training needs to incorporate structural competency to address systemic influences on client distress.
  • Integrating structural forces into case conceptualization guides impactful treatment and advocacy.