ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews guidelines that socioculturally attuned therapists apply regardless of the model they use and looks at three integrative approaches that center social equity as essential to change: socio-emotional relationship therapy (SERT), the cultural context model (CCM), and just therapy. It presents the six guidelines in the order most likely to be effective: attune, name, value, intervene, envision, and transform. In practice, they are interconnected and used in varying ways across each phase of therapy. Rather than work with only a single therapist, CCM reduces the dependency between clients and therapists by engaging them in cultural circles composed of community members concurrently with individual, couple, or family therapy as needed. Just therapy expands conventional therapy boundaries by engaging extended families, working within cultural and spiritual practices, and extending the clinical role to include collaboration with community projects and efforts to transform social policy.
