Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
William Paterson University of New Jersey, Wayne, NJ, USA.
Fam Process. 2020 Dec;59(4):1374-1388. doi: 10.1111/famp.12614. Epub 2020 Nov 20.
The frequent police killings during the COVID-19 pandemic forced a reckoning among Americans from all backgrounds and propelled the Black Lives Matter movement into a global force. This manuscript addresses major issues to aid practitioners in the effective treatment of African Americans via the lens of Critical Race Theory and the Bioecological Model. We place the impacts of racism on Black families in historical context and outline the sources of Black family resilience. We critique structural racism embedded in all aspects of psychology and allied fields. We provide an overview of racial socialization and related issues affecting the parenting decisions in Black families, as well as a detailed overview of impacts of structural racism on couple dynamics. Recommendations are made for engaging racial issues in therapy, providing emotional support and validation to couples and families experiencing discrimination and racial trauma, and using Black cultural strengths as therapeutic resources.
在 COVID-19 大流行期间，频繁发生的警察枪杀事件迫使所有背景的美国人进行反思，并使“黑人的命也是命”运动成为一股全球性力量。本文通过批判种族理论和生物生态学模型，探讨了一些主要问题，以帮助从业者有效地治疗非裔美国人。我们将种族主义对黑人家庭的影响置于历史背景下，并概述了黑人家庭韧性的来源。我们批判了心理学及相关领域各个方面所嵌入的结构性种族主义。我们概述了影响黑人家庭养育决策的种族社会化及相关问题，并详细介绍了结构性种族主义对夫妻关系的影响。本文还就如何在治疗中涉及种族问题、为遭受歧视和种族创伤的夫妇和家庭提供情感支持和认可，以及利用黑人文化力量作为治疗资源等问题提出了建议。
