The Routledge International Handbook of Postmodern Therapies

The Routledge International Handbook of Postmodern Therapies includes contributions by leading international experts to provide an invaluable resource and reference for therapy students, scholars, educators, and practitioners. Along with discussing key postmodern approaches, including collaborative-dialogic, narrative, solution focused, and open dialogue, the handbook features advances in theory, research, and applications of postmodern practice. It covers both critical perspectives and methodologies, such as narrative, poststructuralist, performative, and postqualitative. Considerations of issues of diversity, power, and privilege are infused throughout the handbook. This handbook is essential for practitioners and students interested in teaching, using, and researching postmodern practice, including counselors, clinical psychologists, family therapists, psychotherapists, and social workers. Chapter 28 and Chapter 38 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 license (CC-BY-NC).

Olga Smoliak, PhD, C. Psych, RMFT, is Professor of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition at the University of Guelph, Canada. She is interested in advancing critical and discursive perspectives and inquiry in counseling/psychotherapy and family therapy. Eleftheria Tseliou, PhD, is Professor of Research Methodology and Qualitative Methods at the University of Thessaly (Greece) and a systemic therapist. She is also President of the Association of European Qualitative Researchers in Psychology (EQuiP). She is interested in discursive qualitative methodologies and systemic/postmodern therapies, and counseling/psychotherapy process research. Tom Strong, PhD, is Professor and Counselor-Educator who recently retired from the University of Calgary, Canada. He writes on the collaborative, critical, and practical potentials of discursive approaches to psychotherapy. Saliha Bava, PhD, LMFT, is Program Director and Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy at Mercy University, United States. She is the Cofounding Board Member of the International Certificate Program in Collaborative-Dialogic Practices (ICCP) and Board Member of Taos Institute. Her scholarship and consultation focus on critical discursive change practices in psychotherapy, educational, organizational and social context. Peter Muntigl, PhD, is Staff Scientist in the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication at Ghent University (Belgium) and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University (Canada). His recent publications include Interaction in Psychotherapy (2024).

PART I Introduction to postmodern therapies 1 We have always been postmodern: A new past for a future postmodern psychotherapy Paul Stenner and Maria Nichterlein 2 Theoretical underpinnings of therapeutic practice after modernism Kenneth Gergen and Sheila McNamee 3 What can postmodern therapies learn from dang-ki healing about the cultural ontology of the self? Boon-Ooi Lee 4 Happiness at work in the context of growing precariousness and labor instability Edgar Cabanas and Daniel Nehring 5 Postmodernism, decolonial critiques, and liberatory praxis Rhea Almeida and J. Corey Williams 6 Publishing and postmodern therapy: Delphi responses from the editors of five family therapy journals Jim Duvall, Glenn Larner, Jay Lebow, Philip Messent, and Rachel Tambling With after reflections from Harlene Anderson and Del Loewenthal PART II Key postmodern approaches 7 Collaborative-dialogic practice Harlene Anderson 8 Narrative therapy Tom Stone Carlson and Sanni Paljakka 9 Solution focused brief therapy Peter De Jong, Jennifer Gerwing, and Sara Healing 10 The reflecting team Anna Sidis 11 Open dialogue Tomi Bergström, Mia Kurtti, Andrew Duthie, Kari Valtanen, and Jaakko Seikkula 12 Socio-emotional relationship therapy Carmen Knudson-Martin 13 Bringforthist therapy Karl Tomm, Faye Gosnell, Emily Doyle, Marc Ross, and Joaquín Gaete-Silva 14 Systemic-dialogical therapy Paolo Bertrando and Claudia Lini 15 Social therapy and social therapeutics Lois Holzman 16 Post-existential therapy Simon Wharne 17 Pluralistic therapy Christine Kupfer and John McLeod 18 Integrative systemic therapy Lennart Lorås and Kristoffer J. Whittaker 19 Integrative community therapy Marilene Grandesso and Emerson F. Rasera PART III Socio-cultural context 20 Re-worlding therapy's narrative: A demodern and decolonial reconstitution of healing marcela polanco, Christian Beraud Fernández, Carlos Chico Ramos, Elizabeth Barajas, Nihan Eryonucu, Ingrid Guerrieri, and Yasmine Willis Fernandez 21 Structures of feeling in gender, bodies, and technology Sarah Riley and Adrienne Evans 22 Systemic racism and the differential racializations of Black and non-Black people of color in white space William Ming Liu and Rossina Zamora Liu 23 The deconstruction of monologic spaces: When white meta-narrativity silences George Yancy 24 Queering therapeutic conversations: More than "affirmative" and not just for queers Julie Tilsen, Kristen E. Benson, and David Nylund 25 Cripping and thickening therapy: Making space for bodymind difference Meredith Bessey, Elisabeth Harrison, Sonia Meerai, Kaley Roosen, Allison Taylor, and Carla Rice 26 Postmodern therapies in a neoliberal world Gene Combs and Jill Freedman 27 Therapeutic practice as transmaterial worlding Leah Salter and Gail Simon PART IV Research 28 Methodological foundations and innovations in postmodern therapy research Ronald J. Chenail, Dan Wulff, Sally St. George, and Dragana Ilic 29 Using narrative inquiry and qualitative research to support postmodern psychotherapy practice John McLeod 30 Professional development for counselors, psychologists, and therapists by using Reflective Interventionist Conversation Analysis Michelle O'Reilly, Nikki Kiyimba, and Jessica Lester 31 Poststructuralism: A preface to post qualitative inquiry Elizabeth A. St.Pierre 32 Contributions of dialogical self theory to psychotherapy theory, research and practice Miguel M. Gonçalves, Hubert H. J. M. Hermans, João Batista, and João T. Oliveira 33 If it's all socially constructed, how do we do research? Powering together in action research for transformations Hilary Bradbury 34 Performative social science: Linking art, science, and society Günter Mey and Rainer Winter PART V Education and training 35 Clinical supervision: Making products or a profession? Joaquín Gaete-Silva, Jeff Chang, and Inés Sametband 36 Pedagogy for practitioners: Post-oppositional teaching tactics for transformation Eileen Chung and AnaLouise Keating 37 Training and supervision of psychotherapists with the focus on dialogical skills: The Finnish case Aarno Laitila, Pekka Borchers, Ilpo Kuhlman, and Eija-Liisa Rautiainen 38 Postmodern pedagogy and the ongoing development of teaching and sustaining skills of critical reflection on practice Laura Béres, Stephanie L. Baird, Jane E. Sanders, and Rosemary Vito 39 Indigenizing the classroom: Bringing critical kinship to family studies Sarina Perchak, Andrea V. Breen, and Kim Anderson PART VI Applications 40 The witness to witness program: Evolving curricula to serve social justice principles Kaethe Weingarten, Pamela Secada-Sayles, and Jessica Calderón 41 Listening: An everyday expectation Dan Wulff and Sally St. George 42 Grief therapy as meaning reconstruction: From symptoms to significance Robert A. Neimeyer and Carolyn Ng 43 Co-creating public values Dina von Heimburg, Ottar Ness, Jacob Storch, and Tom Strong 44 The justness of collaborative-dialogic practices in child protection Rocío Chaveste, Khadija Al-Sarhi, Henrike van der Hoeven, Anne Vijverberg, and Otto Sestak 45 Re-centering silenced disaster trauma and healing in neoliberal context: Integrating social constructionist and decolonization approaches Kumar Ravi Priya, Shilpi Kukreja, and Neha Jain 46 Imbeleko approach to counseling: Developing culturally resonant talking therapy services Ncazelo Ncube-Mlilo 47 Empowering families and networks struggling with substance use and addictions through an open dialogue approach Pavel Nepustil and Tanya Mudry