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		<title>MAPPING SOCIAL CAPITAL</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Therapeutic work with families demands an analysis of contextual factors such as race, ethnicity, gender, and social class in relationship to societal systems of power, privilege, and oppression.  A broad understanding of these dynamics, however, is inadequate to inform our work with families whose social capital in certain domains limit available life choices, social influence, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticalthinkingnow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10291706&amp;post=39&amp;subd=criticalthinkingnow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FREE WILL: Does It Make Sense?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[complexity theory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the term “I” is used, it does not represent the single unit of the body which writes these words, but rather a conglomerate of “I’s” within this body which compel this body to write.  There is no “I” as it is understood habitually; this body cannot say that it has a choice in writing these words, or that it can determine what will be written. What this body writes belongs to the numerous people and ideas which live and engage within and with this body. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticalthinkingnow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10291706&amp;post=34&amp;subd=criticalthinkingnow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ADVOCACY</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Western world—and by that I mean the U.S. and northwestern Europe—advocacy has become modus operandi and modus vivendi for those who aspire toward cultural competence. In this fervor to advocate for the oppressed, there has been little reflexivity about advocacy itself. My argument is that we cannot assume that advocacy is always a good thing. We need to think critically about advocacy just as we think critically about abuse, violence, power, and oppression.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticalthinkingnow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10291706&amp;post=10&amp;subd=criticalthinkingnow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CRITICAL GENOGRAM: A Tool to Understand Global Systems</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CritG is a visual tool that maps family relations and larger social forces. It is used to (a) explore identities within sociopolitical and historical contexts, and (b) identify how systems of oppression shape our lives and experiences.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticalthinkingnow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10291706&amp;post=7&amp;subd=criticalthinkingnow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WORLD SYSTEM: RESPONSE</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marisolgarciawestberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember my first class on systems theory; it convinced me that I wanted to be a family therapist. I was blown away, not to say healed, by the idea that I was not entirely to be blamed for the way my life had evolved. Up to that point, I had been educated to think that I was responsible, that it was my fault if things went badly, that I had all the power to make my life shine, that I could have everything if I just put my mind to it. Of course, life handed me blow after blow exemplifying the exact opposite and it stripped me of any belief or regard for myself. So, for a day, I was liberated when I listened to the professor explain systems theory. Unfortunately, the liberation did not last long. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=criticalthinkingnow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10291706&amp;post=5&amp;subd=criticalthinkingnow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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