TY - JOUR
T1 - A critical-cultural-relational approach to rupture resolution
T2 - A case illustration with a cross-racial dyad
AU - Chang, Doris F.
AU - Dunn, Jordan J.
AU - Omidi, Maryam
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/2
Y1 - 2021/2
N2 - Ruptures are common in any therapeutic relationship and their successful resolution is associated with positive outcomes. However, therapist and client differences with regard to power, privilege, identity, and culture increase social and cultural distance, contributing to alliance ruptures and complicating the repair process. Informed by critical race theories, cultural psychological perspectives, and relational principles, we highlight how power, privilege, identity, and culture shape the development of ruptures and thus, how analyses of these dynamics should inform the process of repair. We present an expanded critical-cultural-relational approach to rupture resolution that emphasizes essential skills of critical self-awareness, wise affect, and anti-oppressive interpersonal engagement, and extends Safran and Muran's (2000) general rupture resolution model to emphasize a critical analysis of the rupture and repair processes. We illustrate our approach through a case presentation involving a rupture in a cross-racial dyad with themes of racism and classism.
AB - Ruptures are common in any therapeutic relationship and their successful resolution is associated with positive outcomes. However, therapist and client differences with regard to power, privilege, identity, and culture increase social and cultural distance, contributing to alliance ruptures and complicating the repair process. Informed by critical race theories, cultural psychological perspectives, and relational principles, we highlight how power, privilege, identity, and culture shape the development of ruptures and thus, how analyses of these dynamics should inform the process of repair. We present an expanded critical-cultural-relational approach to rupture resolution that emphasizes essential skills of critical self-awareness, wise affect, and anti-oppressive interpersonal engagement, and extends Safran and Muran's (2000) general rupture resolution model to emphasize a critical analysis of the rupture and repair processes. We illustrate our approach through a case presentation involving a rupture in a cross-racial dyad with themes of racism and classism.
KW - alliance
KW - anti-oppressive practice
KW - critical race theory
KW - multicultural psychology
KW - ruptures
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U2 - 10.1002/jclp.23080
DO - 10.1002/jclp.23080
M3 - Review article
C2 - 33094845
AN - SCOPUS:85093528427
SN - 0021-9762
VL - 77
SP - 369
EP - 383
JO - Journal of Clinical Psychology
JF - Journal of Clinical Psychology
IS - 2
ER -