African American Couples in the 21st Century: Using Integrative Systemic Therapy (IST) to Translate Science into Practice. Issue 3 (5th August 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- African American Couples in the 21st Century: Using Integrative Systemic Therapy (IST) to Translate Science into Practice. Issue 3 (5th August 2019)
- Main Title:
- African American Couples in the 21st Century: Using Integrative Systemic Therapy (IST) to Translate Science into Practice
- Authors:
- Chambers, Anthony L.
- Abstract:
- Abstract : The complexity of the African American community in the United States continues to evolve. The growing number of professional African Americans who grew up in the postcivil rights era combined with the persistent reminders of inequity paints a complex backdrop for understanding African American relationships. The majority of our knowledge about African American couples disproportionately comes from nonclinical social science fields such as sociology and demography. Unfortunately, the scholarly literature on how to work with African American couples is relatively scant. This paper seeks to add to this limited literature by providing clinicians and scholars with a proposed set of issues to consider when conceptualizing and treating African American couples. In particular, the complexity and nuance needed to work with African American couples are best done by using an integrative model. Thus, this paper will discuss how the Integrative Systemic Therapy (IST) model is particularly well suited for working with African American couples. This paper will summarize the science on African American marriages with a focus on salient factors such as gender, SES, and trust, which will then be translated into clinical practice by utilizing a case example. The case example will be of a middle‐class couple in order to delineate the challenges and the growing heterogeneity of African Americans. The article will conclude with a commentary on the evolving heterogeneity of AfricanAbstract : The complexity of the African American community in the United States continues to evolve. The growing number of professional African Americans who grew up in the postcivil rights era combined with the persistent reminders of inequity paints a complex backdrop for understanding African American relationships. The majority of our knowledge about African American couples disproportionately comes from nonclinical social science fields such as sociology and demography. Unfortunately, the scholarly literature on how to work with African American couples is relatively scant. This paper seeks to add to this limited literature by providing clinicians and scholars with a proposed set of issues to consider when conceptualizing and treating African American couples. In particular, the complexity and nuance needed to work with African American couples are best done by using an integrative model. Thus, this paper will discuss how the Integrative Systemic Therapy (IST) model is particularly well suited for working with African American couples. This paper will summarize the science on African American marriages with a focus on salient factors such as gender, SES, and trust, which will then be translated into clinical practice by utilizing a case example. The case example will be of a middle‐class couple in order to delineate the challenges and the growing heterogeneity of African Americans. The article will conclude with a commentary on the evolving heterogeneity of African Americans, which sheds light on how an integrative perspective is important for disentangling and embracing the growing complexity of African American couples. Resumen: La complejidad de la comunidad afroamericana de los Estados Unidos continúa evolucionando. El número cada vez mayor de afroamericanos profesionales que crecieron en la era posterior a los derechos civiles combinado con los recordatorios constantes de inequidad pinta un telón de fondo complejo para comprender las relaciones afroamericanas. La mayoría de nuestro conocimiento acerca de las parejas afroamericanas proviene desproporcionadamente de ámbitos de las ciencias sociales no clínicas, como la sociología y la demografía. Desafortunadamente, la bibliografía científica sobre cómo trabajar con parejas afroamericanas es relativamente escasa. Este artículo tiene como finalidad incrementar esta bibliografía limitada proporcionando a los clínicos y a los académicos un conjunto de asuntos propuestos para tener en cuenta al conceptualizar y tratar a las parejas afroamericanas. En particular, la complejidad y los matices necesarios para trabajar con las parejas afroamericanas se logran mejor usando un modelo integrativo. Por lo tanto, en este artículo se debatirá cómo el modelo de terapia sistémica integrativa (TSI) (Pinsof et al., 2017) se adapta perfectamente para trabajar con parejas afroamericanas. En este artículo se resumirá la ciencia sobre los matrimonios afroamericanos haciendo hincapié en factores prominentes, como el género, el nivel socioeconómico y la confianza, que luego se trasladarán a la práctica clínica utilizando un caso ilustrativo. El caso ilustrativo será de una pareja de clase media a fin de describir los desafíos y la heterogeneidad creciente de los afroamericanos. El artículo concluye con un comentario sobre la creciente heterogeneidad de los afroamericanos, donde se aclara cómo una perspectiva integrativa es importante para desenmarañar y aceptar la complejidad creciente de las parejas afroamericanas. 摘要 : 在美国, 非洲裔美国人社区的复杂性不断在发展演化。在后民权运动时代成长起来的职业非裔美国人的数目不断在增加, 与此同时长久的不平等仍然持续存在, 这些都给理解非裔美国人的婚恋关系勾勒出了复杂的背景语境。我们关于非裔美国人伴侣的了解很大程度来自于非临床研究类的社会科学领域研究, 如社会学和人口统计学等。而且, 关于如何对待非裔美国人伴侣婚恋问题的学术方面的研究文献也相对匮乏。本文旨在对现存的有限的研究加以补充, 为那些理解和治疗非裔美国人伴侣的临床从医者和学者提供一系列可供思考研讨的问题。具体而言, 本研究提倡使用一个综合性模型, 它可以非常好地应对治疗中面对的非裔美国伴侣的复杂性和那些敏感微妙的问题。因此, 本文将讨论综合系统性治疗(IST)模型(Pinsof et al., 2017) 在针对非洲裔伴侣治疗时如何表现出非常匹配。本文对非洲裔美国人的婚姻科学作出了总结, 重点主要在外显的因素, 诸如:性别, 社会经济地位, 信任。具体做法是通过一个实际案例把如上因素转换成实际可操作的措施。案例来自于一个中产阶级夫妇, 目的在于可以描述出非裔美国人面临的困难和这个群体日益增加的多相性。本文的结论中评述了非洲裔美国人的异质化发展趋势, 这也正阐明了综合性视角的重要性, 其对于解决和接受日益增长的非裔美国人伴侣的复杂性起十分重要的作用。 … (more)
- Is Part Of:
- Family process. Volume 58:Issue 3(2019)
- Journal:
- Family process
- Issue:
- Volume 58:Issue 3(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 58, Issue 3 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 58
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0058-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 595
- Page End:
- 609
- Publication Date:
- 2019-08-05
- Subjects:
- African American marriage -- African American couples -- Couples therapy -- Integrative therapy -- Integrative systemic therapy -- Middle class
matrimonio afroamericano -- parejas afroamericanas -- terapia de pareja -- terapia integrativa -- terapia sistémica integrativa -- clase media
非裔美国人婚姻 -- 非裔美国人伴侣 -- 伴侣治疗 -- 综合治疗 -- 综合系统性治疗 -- 中产阶级
Family psychotherapy -- Periodicals
Families -- Periodicals
616.8915 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/rd.asp?goto=journal&code=famp ↗
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1111/famp.12478 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0014-7370
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