Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy: Applying Third Order Thinking to Theory and Practice

By Carmen Knudson-Martin, Teresa McDowell, J. Maria Bermudez

Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy, 3rd edition, is a fully updated and essential textbook that addresses the need for marriage and family therapists to engage in socially responsible practice by infusing third order thinking throughout theory and clinical practice.

Written by leaders in the field, this book explores why sociocultural attunement and equity matter, providing students and clinicians with integrative guidelines and case illustrations applicable to practice. The authors integrate principles of societal context, power, and equity into ten major family therapy models, including structural, narrative, solution focused, Bowen family systems, and socio-emotional relationship therapy. Updates feature diverse voices describing creative applications of this framework, a new chapter on socioculturally attuned assessment, and expanded content on contemporary social issues such as social isolation, individualism, social inequities, and polarization.

This textbook remains essential reading for family therapists, counselors, social workers, and psychologists, as well as educators and supervisors wanting to apply a critical consciousness and third order thinking to their clinical and community work.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032787368
• ISBN13: 9781032787367
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 381 Pages