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- Title
Constructions and enactments of whiteness: a discursive analysis.
- Authors
Wallis, Jennifer; Singh, Reenee
- Abstract
Systemic therapists have argued that it is important to re-examine issues about white identities if they are to develop cultural competence and cultural sensitivity. Despite this, few studies have explored whiteness in systemic psychotherapy. This small-scale qualitative study therefore explores how a group of white systemic psychotherapists (trainers and trainees) construct whiteness, how these constructions or discourses facilitate or constrain talk about whiteness and how this influences what therapists do in therapy. The research method used was focus group discussions and an action research approach. The data were analysed using Foucauldian discourse analysis and three main discourses were made apparent: 'whiteness as an invisible norm', 'political correctness' and 'systemic therapy discourses'. These discourses are described and the implications, discussed.
- Subjects
DISCOURSE analysis; FAMILY psychotherapy; FOCUS groups; PATIENT-professional relations; PSYCHOTHERAPISTS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITATIVE research; CULTURAL awareness; THEMATIC analysis; CULTURAL competence
- Publication
Journal of Family Therapy, 2014, Vol 36, p39
- ISSN
0163-4445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-6427.2012.00602.x