Some Central Ideas in the “Just Therapy” Approach

Abstract

This document summarizes one conference on Family Therapy and Social Justice that took place on the Second Australia and New Zealand Family Therapy Conference, in Melbourne, on July 92. It encloses the languages of the Family Center's three cultures: Maori, Samoan and English. The two professionals show their perspectives, the Samoan feminine condition and the Pakeha (white) masculine condition, when they talk about the development of Just Therapy. lt’s an unusually subjective description of historical facts that turned to be crucial to the particular development taken by therapy in the Family Centre. Through lecture, poetry, tales and songs the document pictures cultural context, gender and socio-economical issues, that are central to Just Therapy method. Belonging, Sacredness and Liberation became the essence of this unique anticolonial, anti-sexist and anti-class therapy. Putting things in a positive way, this document presents the history of equity questions that consistently tried to create a therapy that includes females, culturally dominated cultures, and low income and out of market marginalized families’ experience.