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ArticleFamily process2025

Decolonially speaking, sensing, and thinking: Racialized tuition-based family therapists learning without teaching.

Marcela Polanco, Pankaj Kumar, Fraol Frada Olyad, Claire Henry Enemark

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Article in Family process, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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4 authors.

Marcela PolancoMarriage and Family Therapy, Department of Counseling and School Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4872-6065
Pankaj KumarMarriage and Family Therapy, Department of Counseling and School Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA.
Fraol Frada OlyadMarriage and Family Therapy, Department of Counseling and School Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA.
Claire Henry EnemarkMarriage and Family Therapy, Department of Counseling and School Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We address the ethical implications of training and becoming family therapists in the United States when considering the colonial control and management of knowledge by the westernized institutionalized university. We do so decolonially. Through the work of decolonial thinkers, doers, and sensers, we center our discussion on the heteropatriarchal Eurocentric institutionalization of knowledge linked to the development and sustainability of structures of family therapy training through racialization and monetization. We discuss a decolonial understanding of race in relation to the liberalized politics of diversity, equity, and inclusion and upward mobility of family therapy education. Most importantly, we reflect upon the possibilities of reexistence within family therapy, fissuring the colonial structures of training tuition-based family therapists. We locate those possibilities through practices of crack-making, epistemic insurgence, and mischief. Our discussions and reflections are developed throughout by thinking, sensing, and speaking decolonially, storying our racialized incarnated lives from the saberes, ज्ञान, rhythms, vapors, or tastes of our communities, displaced by the European cannon. We embrace a decolonial pedagogy of learning without teaching, positioning family therapy education as a site for sociopolitical struggle and action toward possibilities of reexistence.

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ColonialismFamily TherapyHumansUnited StatesUniversitiesdiversity and inclusionepistemic insurgencefamily therapy and decolonizationfamily therapy trainingrace and racismsocial justice

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PMID39022862
PMCPMC11833420

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