To prepare:
• Review the Learning Resources on social work with couples and families experiencing discrimination.
• Select one of the following types of discrimination to center int your Assignment:
• Discrimination due to race
• Discrimination due to ethnicity
• piscrimination due to LGBTQ+ identity
• Use the Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources from the library to identify several best practices that social workers can employ to effectively support and advocate for couples and families experiencing the selected type of discrimination.
• Imagine you are attending a family therapy training for social workers. Consider how you could visually and verbally summarize these best practices for other social workers to help them improve their practice.
• Families may experience discrimination due to numerous factors. For the purposes of this Assignment, you will primarily focus on one factor. However, remain aware of the diverse ways in which a couple’s or family’s experiences of privilege and oppression may intersect.
Day7
Select one of the following topics:
• Discrimination due to race
• Discrimination due to ethnicity
• Discrimination due to LGBTQ+ identity
Then, submit a narrated infographic for social workers attending a family therapy training:
Using evidence from the Learning Resources and other scholarly literature, develop a narrated infographic on best practices for working with couples or families experiencing the type of discrimination you selected. Be sure to include the following:
Your infographic should be 1 or 2 slides created using PowerPoint with a final slide containing a reference list. The infographic should use clear, accessible language and consistent layout and formatting, and it should include appropriate visual elements. Your narration should describe the content of your infographic as if you were presenting it to a group of social workers attending a family therapy training. The narration should be clear and concise and meaningfully add to the infographic content. (Students should not simply repeat the exact words on the infographic.) A complete transcript of the narration should be included in the notes section.
Reference:
Readings
• Almeida, R. V., & Tubbs, C. Y. (2020). Intersectionality: A liberation-based healing perspective E. In K. S. Wampler, R. B. Miller, & R. B. Seedall (Eds.), The handbook of systemic family therapy: Vol. 1. The profession of systemic family therapy (pp. 227-249).
Wiley Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119438519.ch10
• Harris-McKoy, D., & McNeil Smith, S. (2020). Improving culturally sensitive interventions for youth and parent-child relationships B. In K. S. Wampler & L. M.
McWey (Eds.), The handbook of systemic family therapy: Vol. 2. Systemic family therapy with children and adolescents (pp. 623-644). Wiley Blackwell.
https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119788393.ch25
• McGeorge, C. R., Waldorf, A. A., Edwards, L. L., Benson, K. E., & Coburn, K. O. (2020).
Sexual orientation and gender identity: Considerations for systemic therapists @. In
K. S. Wampler, R. B. Miller, & R. B. Seedall (Eds.), The handbook of systemic family therapy: Vol. 1. The profession of systemic family therapy (pp. 251-271). Wiley Blackwell.
https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119438519.ch11
• Poulsen, S. S. (2020). Improving couple interventions for underserved populations E In K. S. Wampler & A. J. Blow (Eds.), The handbook of systemic family therapy: Vol. 3.
Systemic family therapy with couples (pp. 511-531). Wiley Blackwell.
https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119438519.ch81
• Watson, M. F. (2019). Social justice and race in the United States: Key issues and challenges for couple and family therapy. E. Family Process, 58(1), 23-33.
https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12427
• Morrison, T., Ferris Wayne, M., Harrison, T., Palmgren, E., & Knudson-Martin, C.
(2022). Learning to embody a social justice perspective in couple and family therapy:
A grounded theory analysis of MFTs in training & Contemporary Family Therapy, 44(4),
408-421. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10591-022-09635-8