Bilingualism, Culture, and Social Justice in Family Therapy

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • marcela polanco, Navid Zamani, Christina Da Hee Kim

   Pages 1-8

3. Intersections of Asian Identity, Languages, and Professional Education: Where the Personal and Professional Intimately Collide

   • Wonyoung L. Cho, Thien T. Pham, Diana K. Chung

   Pages 9-15

4. Storying the Aesthetics of Nuestras Linguistic Borderlands: A Tapestry de Solidarity

   • Tisha X, Mu-Lan Chau, Lorraine Hogan, marcela polanco

   Pages 17-24

5. La Questione Della Lingua Comes to Therapy

   • Lodovica Guidarelli

   Pages 25-31

6. Language as Rebellion: Black Folks Wanna Speak They Own Kinda English in Therapy

   • Eureka Vaughn, Candea Mosley

   Pages 33-38

7. Doing Narrative Therapy in Fenglish

   • Navid Zamani, Nadia Zamani

   Pages 39-46

8. Therapeutic Latinx Story-Sharing or Chismorreo

   • Carlos A. Ramos, Jimena Castro, Joseph Alvaro Guerrero Velez

   Pages 47-54

9. A Meeting of Languages: English-Based Trauma and Spanish Language Variations

   • Nidya Ramirez Ibarra

   Pages 55-60

10. Spanish-English Bilingual Supervision

    • Blanca Lizbeth Lugo

    Pages 61-68

11. Legitimizing Language Traffick(ing) Through a Community of Support

    • Mu-Lan Chau, Letti Estrella, Ingrid Guerrieri, Daniel O’Sullivan

    Pages 69-75

12. Corazones Bilingües: A Journey in MFT Training and Practice

    • Rocio Ocampo-Giancola, Gricelda Alvarez, Elvia Murga

    Pages 77-82

13. Working as a Team: Therapy with Interpreters

    • Meg Rogers, Mohammed Darbi, Jenny Leverman

    Pages 83-90

14. Back Matter

    Pages 91-96

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This volume advocates for justice in language rights through its explorations of bilingualism in family therapy, from the perspectives of eighteen languages identified by the authors: Black Talk/Ebonics/Slang, Farsi, Fenglish, Arabic, Italian, Cantonese Chinese, South Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Vietnamese, Spanish, Chilean Spanish, Mexican Spanish, Colombian Spanglish, Madrileño Spanish, Spanglish, Pocho Spanish, Colloquial Spanish, and English. It identifies standard English as the current language most often used across family therapy programs and services in the United States. The book discusses efforts to respond to the rapidly changing linguistic landscape and the increasingly high demand for appropriate therapy services that respond effectively to diverse families in America. It discusses recruitment and training of linguistically diverse family therapists and strategies to promote linguistic equality to support the rights of family therapists, their practices, and the communitiesthey serve. Chapters explore ways to integrate languages in professional and personal lives, including the improvisational, self-taught translanguaging skills and practices that go beyond the lexical and grammatical rules of a language. The book describes the creative use of native or heritage languages to ensure that the juxtaposition of English therapeutic and daily-life landscapes is integrated into family therapy settings. It discusses contextual, relational, therapeutic, and training potential offered by bilingualism as well as the necessary transmutations in theory and practice.

This volume is an essential resource for clinicians, therapists, and practitioners as well as researchers, professors, and graduate students in family studies, clinical psychology, and public health as well as all interrelated disciplines.

• Asian languages, cultures, and family therapy
• Bilingual supervision and family therapy
• Bilingual therapists and diverse families
• Bilingual therapy and multicultural families
• Colonialism in therapy, bilingualism
• Couples therapy and bilingualism
• Family therapy and bilingual clients
• Farsi and family therapy
• Interpreters and family therapy
• Latinx chismorreo and family therapy
• Linguistic identity and family therapy
• Marriage and family therapy, bilingualism
• Multicultural therapy and bilingualism
• Narrative therapy and multiculturalism
• Native languages, identities, and family therapy
• Posttraumatic stress disorder, bilingualism, therapy
• Social justice and family therapy
• Spanish therapy and diverse families

• College of Education, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA

  marcela polanco, Navid Zamani

• License to Freedom, El Cajon, USA

  Christina Da Hee Kim

marcela polanco, es de Bogotá, Colombia e inmigrante en United States. Su ancestry es African, Muisca, and European Colombian. She speaks Español Colombiano and Immigrant Spanglish. As a family terapista, she is part of the faculty team del Master’s en Family Therapy y del Spanglish/Ingleñol Family Therapy training Certificado at San Diego State University located in unceded Kumeyaay land.

  

Navid Zamani is a Persian-American (Farsi & English-speaking) licensed Marriage and Family therapist practicing in San Diego. His work is structured around supporting families experiencing domestic violence, and conceptualizes these experiences from a poststructural, decolonial feminism situated in Narrative practices. His interests in counseling, philosophy, and music are blended together with an interest in relational ethics, the politics of revolutionary love, and leaning into complexity. He currently teaches at San Diego State University and is the Head of Clinical Services at License to Freedom, a non-profit that supports refugees and immigrants from the Middle East who are experiencing domestic violence issues.

 

Christina DaHee Kim is a Korean immigrant who grew up in Los Angeles. She traverses between the worlds of English, Korean, and the mix of two languages, Konglish. Her interest in all forms of communication, including various languages and the non-verbal communication, stem from her exposure to Spanish-, Japanese-, and sign language-speaking worlds. As a recent graduate from the Marriage and Family Therapy program at San Diego State University, she hopes to collaborate and explore relational ethics in diverse relationship dynamics from a postmodern lens.

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