TERESA MCDOWELL / CARMEN KNUDSON-MARTIN / J. MARIA BERMÚDEZ
Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy, third edition, is a fully updated and essential textbook that
addresses the need for marriage and family therapists to engage in socially responsible practice by infusing
third order thinking throughout theory and clinical practice.
Written by leaders in the field, this book explores why sociocultural attunement and equity matter, providing
students and clinicians with integrative guidelines and case illustrations applicable to practice. The authors
integrate principles of societal context, power, and equity into 11 major family therapy models: Structural,
Strategic, Experiential, Attachment, Narrative, Solution-focused, Collaborative, Cognitive Behavioral,
Contextual, Bowen Family Systems, and Socio-emotional Relationship Therapy. Updates feature diverse voices
describing creative applications of this framework, a new chapter on socioculturally attuned assessment, and
expanded content on contemporary social issues such as social isolation, individualism, social inequities, and
polarization.
This textbook remains essential reading for family therapists, counselors, social workers, and psychologists,
as well as educators and supervisors wanting to apply a critical consciousness and third order thinking to their
clinical and community work.
