Clinical approaches to decolonizing psychology: strengths and challenges working in an infant-parent mental health community clinic.
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| Title: | Clinical approaches to decolonizing psychology: strengths and challenges working in an infant-parent mental health community clinic. |
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| Authors: | Reynolds, Jason D. (AUTHOR), Alvarado Freund, Ada (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Counselling Psychology Quarterly. Mar2026, Vol. 39 Issue 1, p188-207. 20p. |
| Subjects: | Work, Professional ethics, Industrial psychology, Patient advocacy, Conceptual structures, Counseling, Social boundaries, Experiential learning, Self-disclosure, Political participation |
| Abstract: | Attempts to decolonize psychology have been part of criticalist-ideological paradigms and liberatory practices within psychological research, practice, and education. The present study discusses a decolonizing model of healing and treatment that exists outside the traditional bounds of in-office one-on-one therapy. Using a community-based infant-parent mental health model as a framework for clinical work, the authors seek to highlight the various ways that this therapeutic model offers significant benefits for families that might otherwise not be possible within dominant Western hegemonic therapies. The decolonizing work includes practicing the Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children, and Families, while engaging in critical reflexive practice while advocating, interfering, and disrupting long-held institutions, organizations, policies, and laws that continue to oppress individuals. These various interventions and ways of healing will be outlined in a clinical composite case vignette with the focus of attention on non-dominant ways of knowing, advocacy, and systems-level change; intentional efforts to dismantle the status quo and dominant power structures; empowering clients to be liberated from their oppressors; and feminist, antiracist, Indigenous ways of healing. The authors outline the importance of the structural competencies model to problematize the systems and institutions rather than the client. Ethical challenges and dilemmas are also discussed and explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Abstract: | Attempts to decolonize psychology have been part of criticalist-ideological paradigms and liberatory practices within psychological research, practice, and education. The present study discusses a decolonizing model of healing and treatment that exists outside the traditional bounds of in-office one-on-one therapy. Using a community-based infant-parent mental health model as a framework for clinical work, the authors seek to highlight the various ways that this therapeutic model offers significant benefits for families that might otherwise not be possible within dominant Western hegemonic therapies. The decolonizing work includes practicing the Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children, and Families, while engaging in critical reflexive practice while advocating, interfering, and disrupting long-held institutions, organizations, policies, and laws that continue to oppress individuals. These various interventions and ways of healing will be outlined in a clinical composite case vignette with the focus of attention on non-dominant ways of knowing, advocacy, and systems-level change; intentional efforts to dismantle the status quo and dominant power structures; empowering clients to be liberated from their oppressors; and feminist, antiracist, Indigenous ways of healing. The authors outline the importance of the structural competencies model to problematize the systems and institutions rather than the client. Ethical challenges and dilemmas are also discussed and explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| ISSN: | 09515070 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09515070.2025.2521819 |
