The Shattered Microcosm: Imperatives for Improved Family Therapy in Africa in the 21st Century
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Date
2004-06
Authors
Nwoye, A.
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Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
Abstract
This paper provides an in-depth socio-political analysis of the basis for the limits of family therapy in Africa in the last 40 years. The goal is to make more visible the economic, social, political, and cultural factors that have combined to complicate and frustrate our macro-environments of practice. The conclusion is that family therapy in Africa cannot achieve any meaningful progress in the present millenium unless the structures of underdevelopment under which we live and work are dismantled and in their place the important preconditions for successful practice of modern family therapy are entrenched. The list of imperatives to be addressed is offered to suggest the direction along which we must move if we are to effect this adaptation.
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DOI: 10.1023/B:COFT.0000031240.00980.88
Keywords
Africa, Family therapy, Imperatives for 21st, Century
Citation
Contemporary Family Therapy. June 2004, Volume 26, Issue 2, pp 143-164