"Mental Health" Power and Its Effects: A Commentary on Battling Against Inter‐Faith Relations in Israel. (11th June 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sparks, Jacqueline A.
• Is Part Of: Journal of marital and family therapy. Volume 42:Number 1(2016:Jan.)
• Page Start: 58
• Page End: 61
• Publication Date: 2015-06-11
• Subjects: Marriage counseling -- United States -- Periodicals; Family psychotherapy -- Periodicals; Counseling -- Periodicals; Family -- Periodicals; Family Therapy -- Periodicals; Marriage -- Periodicals; Gezinstherapie; Conseil conjugal -- États-Unis -- Périodiques; Thérapie familiale -- Périodiques; 616.89156
• DOI: 10.1111/jmft.12130
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0194-472X

Abstract

Abstract : Hakak (2016 ) provides an opportunity to examine how mental health and therapy systems in the United States operate to maintain current social and political structures. This commentary suggests that practitioners, including family therapists, participate in and support practices that do not serve the interests of marginalized social groups, despite our best intentions. Discourse theory offers a lens through which such practices become visible and thus open to revision.