Making space for racial dialogue: our experience in a marriage and family therapy training program.
Marriage and family therapy (MFT) training programs need to create opportunities for all students to develop cultural competency by raising their racial awareness and sensitivity. Likewise, therapists of color need to be offered space in MFT programs to voice their experiences and venues for their voices to be heard. This article reports on the efforts within a master's level, accredited MFT training program to create space, through participatory action research, for the unique experiences of therapists of color and White therapists who are deeply committed to racial sensitivity.
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois 60115, USA. teresamcdowell@hotmail.com
Teresa
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McDowell
Shi-Ruei
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Fang
Cecilia
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Gomez-Young
Anchal
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Khanna
Brooke
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Sherman
Kenya
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Brownlee
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