Beyond ‘solidarity’ with Black Lives Matter: Drawing on liberation psychology and transformative justice to address institutional and community violence in young Black lives

IF 1.1 4区心理学 Q3 FAMILY STUDIES

Journal of Family Therapy Pub Date : 2022-01-07 DOI:10.1111/1467-6427.12369

Taiwo Afuape, Shanea Kerry Oldham

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Abstract

The authors, a Systemic Therapist (Author 1) and a young activist (Author 2), call for an approach that draws on Liberation Psychology and Transformative Justice to address pervasive racism in society, beyond statements of solidarity with Back Lives Matter. This requires addressing the impact on Black communities of the criminal legal (or criminal INjustice) system, ‘perpetual community trauma’ and grief, multiple forms of social disadvantage and exclusion and the relationship between these forms of racial trauma and serious youth violence. Rather than going back to business as usual once the current focus on Black Lives Matter dissipates, such as calls for more police, more prisons and more exclusion, the authors suggest that we work against the grain and envision alternative systems based on community-based responses to trauma and oppression with mental health practitioners and community activists working together.

Practitioner points

Drawing on Liberation Psychology can enable us to go to the root of problems and directly challenge oppression
Liberation Psychology advocates for (1) explicitly naming oppression, (2) reconnecting to a collective history of resistance and solidarity and (3) drawing on peoples’ creativity
Radical change requires radical thinkers who can imagine alternative social systems based not on punishment and oppression but on Healing, Restorative and Transformative Justice

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超越“团结”黑人的生命也很重要:利用解放心理学和变革正义来解决黑人青年生活中的机构和社区暴力

作者是一位系统治疗师(作者1)和一位年轻的活动家(作者2)，他们呼吁采取一种方法，利用解放心理学和变革正义来解决社会中普遍存在的种族主义，而不仅仅是声援“回头的生命很重要”。这需要解决刑事法律(或刑事不公正)制度对黑人社区的影响，“永久的社区创伤”和悲伤，多种形式的社会劣势和排斥，以及这些形式的种族创伤与严重的青少年暴力之间的关系。一旦目前对“黑人的命也是命”(Black Lives Matter)的关注消散，比如呼吁增加警察、监狱和更多的隔离，作者建议，我们反对这种做法，并设想基于社区对创伤和压迫的反应，与心理健康从业者和社区活动家共同努力的替代系统。利用解放心理学可以让我们找到问题的根源，直接挑战压迫。解放心理学主张(1)明确指出压迫;(2)重新连接抵抗和团结的集体历史(3)利用人民的创造力激进的变革需要激进的思想家，他们能够想象出基于治愈、恢复和变革正义而不是惩罚和压迫的替代社会制度

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Journal of Family Therapy Multiple-

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2.90

自引率

18.80%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Family Therapy advances the understanding and treatment of human relationships constituted in systems such as couples, families and professional networks and wider groups, by publishing articles on theory, research, clinical practice and training. The editorial board includes leading academics and professionals from around the world in keeping with the high standard of international contributions, which make it one of the most widely read family therapy journals.