Cross-cultural family therapy: The escape model

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Family therapists are commonly from the middle-class and represent the majority culture. They are educated in majority institutions, supervised by trainers from the dominant culture, and taught culturally grounded, normative, family behavior. These therapists may have little knowledge of subcultural values and how those values affect family functioning. This paper focuses on the problems that family therapists may have in adopting culturally sensitive perceptions and appropriate techniques. Critical issues in culturally conscious family therapy are discussed, and classical family therapy techniques as they might be modified for Mexican-American or Appalachian families are presented.

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