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Explore the obstacles and challenges involved in bringing feminist
values and techniques into mainstream therapy Feminist therapy has
been challenging mainstream therapy thinking and practice for the
past thirty years. The Foundation and Future of Feminist Therapy is
the first book to provide a summary and compilation of that
history. It describes the work of the major contributors, early and
recent, and gives a terrific overview of the rich and radical
development of feminist therapy from a variety of perspectives. The
Foundation and Future of Feminist Therapy honors the work of women
such as Laura Brown, Iris Fodor, Miriam Greenspan, Hannah Lerman,
and Lenore Walker, who developed, and who continue to develop,
feminist therapy theory and practice. This book breaks new ground
by envisioning a feminist-informed future in the areas of therapy
practice, the education of therapists, and community. It also
provides an unflinching look at the challenges and threats to
developing that future and offers suggestions for action. The
Foundation and Future of Feminist Therapy includes the work of past
and present contributors to feminist theory on topics such as: the
complex intertwining of gender and other oppressions the impact of
race and ethnicity the effects of sexual orientation, age, class,
disability, and refugee and immigrant status discussions about
violence against women feminist theory from a wide range of
perspectives, from relational-cultural to multicultural theory
perspectives on trauma the discussions at a conference that
imagined a future informed by feminist principles and much more!
For those interested in feminist therapy theory, The Foundation and
Future of Feminist Therapy is an excellent starting point, and many
references are provided for readers who want to pursue specific
topics further. This book will interest practicing therapists at
all levels, including psychologists, counselors, and social
workers. It is also appropriate as a textbook for women's studies,
psychology of women, counseling, psychology, and social work
classes.
Explore the obstacles and challenges involved in bringing feminist
values and techniques into mainstream therapy Feminist therapy has
been challenging mainstream therapy thinking and practice for the
past thirty years. The Foundation and Future of Feminist Therapy is
the first book to provide a summary and compilation of that
history. It describes the work of the major contributors, early and
recent, and gives a terrific overview of the rich and radical
development of feminist therapy from a variety of perspectives. The
Foundation and Future of Feminist Therapy honors the work of women
such as Laura Brown, Iris Fodor, Miriam Greenspan, Hannah Lerman,
and Lenore Walker, who developed, and who continue to develop,
feminist therapy theory and practice. This book breaks new ground
by envisioning a feminist-informed future in the areas of therapy
practice, the education of therapists, and community. It also
provides an unflinching look at the challenges and threats to
developing that future and offers suggestions for action. The
Foundation and Future of Feminist Therapy includes the work of past
and present contributors to feminist theory on topics such as: the
complex intertwining of gender and other oppressions the impact of
race and ethnicity the effects of sexual orientation, age, class,
disability, and refugee and immigrant status discussions about
violence against women feminist theory from a wide range of
perspectives, from relational-cultural to multicultural theory
perspectives on trauma the discussions at a conference that
imagined a future informed by feminist principles and much more!
For those interested in feminist therapy theory, The Foundation and
Future of Feminist Therapy is an excellent starting point, and many
references are provided for readers who want to pursue specific
topics further. This book will interest practicing therapists at
all levels, including psychologists, counselors, and social
workers. It is also appropriate as a textbook for women's studies,
psychology of women, counseling, psychology, and social work
classes.
Feminist Therapy as a Political Act explores what is means to
politicize therapy and how you can make pyschotherapy a method for
creating social and individual change. You ll find examples and
strategies for discussing topics such as empowerment and identity
that allow you to provide better services to clients while learning
new ideas and methods of feminist therapy. Examining how language,
behavior, and political thinking influence therapeutic methods,
Feminist Therapy as a Political Act contains suggestions and
examples that can be applied to clients in the individual,
hospital, or community setting. You ll discover the rich variety of
ways in which therapists politicize the therapy relationship,
setting, assumptions, techniques, and dialogues, and find several
examples on how to incorporate political consciousness into your
sessions. Feminist Therapy as a Political Act gives you insight
into several methods and practices, including: integrating specific
therapy techniques and the background dialogue of therapy into
principles of feminist therapy practices modifying
cognitive-behavioral therapy, hypnosis, and other therapy
techniques to make them more compatible with feminist principles
redefining and reclaiming empowerment for conducting political
analysis in feminist psychotherapy recognizing client identity,
including race, gender, and sexual identity, to provide clients
with better therapy providing information on Japanese feminist
counseling in relation to Eastern thought, the women 's liberation
movement, and the concepts of independence, dependence, and
maternity discussing the challenges of working with menContributors
to Feminist Therapy as a Political Act give you insight into the
profession on the international level, for example, examining the
challenges to feminist therapists in Japan and describing how
survivors of incest and sexual abuse in Israel "went public" with
their ordeals through art, poetry, performances, and lectures.
Offering diverse methods, techniques, and suggestions that will
help you provide better services for your clients, Feminist Therapy
as a Political Act also gives you the knowledge and inspiration to
make your therapeutic work a political act.
How can you provide effective, meaningful therapy to couples with
whom you have little or nothing in common? Couples Therapy:
Feminist Perspectives addresses some of the inadequacies,
omissions, and assumptions in traditional couples therapy to help
you face the issues of race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation in
helping couples today. In this book, you'll uncover perspectives
that are grounded in an appreciation of cultural context, the
effects of privilege, and the centrality of a respectful stance on
the part of the therapist. Anyone seeking to do informed and
responsive work with couples in distress will find it a useful and
valuable compilation.Couples Therapy: Feminist Perspectives
describes a variety of feminist approaches to couples
therapy--giving you a sense of the range of feminist practice in
this area and illustrating approaches you can integrate into your
work with couples. Specific topics you'll explore include: cultural
considerations in couples therapy narrative approaches to couples
therapy dilemmas in working with heterosexual couples working with
lesbian couples the particular issues of interracial couples the
African-American lesbian couple empathy and mutuality in therapy
with couples Whether you're an experienced psychologist, social
worker, marriage and family counselor, or therapist or a student of
family and couples therapy, Couples Therapy: Feminist Perspectives
will help you prepare to respond effectively to a more diverse
clientele.
Gain remarkable insight about practicing therapy in a rural
community! In Diary of a Country Therapist, Dr. Marcia Hill
chronicles more than a decade of her thoughts and feelings about
practicing therapy in rural Vermont. The author reveals her empathy
for her clients, her frustration in money matters, and her anger at
the maltreatment of women. This book focuses not on the specifics
of her clients' cases, but on the trials, successes, and
fulfillment of working in this emotionally challenging profession.
What a strange line of work this is, where the ability to feel is
such a primary tool. Who would think that one's heart could be
harnessed and used intentionally as a resource? It's such a
paradox. My feeling response is what it is; it cannot be commanded
or faked. Yet it is not a matter of giving in to emotion, but one
of using feeling purposefully, like a scalpel. It's an experience
of simultaneous yielding and restraint. The job of the professional
empath is like that of an artist or poet: to take raw experience,
direct emotional response, and somehow make it a vehicle for change
and enlightenment. From liberating breakthroughs to personal
anguish, Diary of a Country Therapist is witness to a decade of
changes, both in Marcia Hill's practice and in her personal life.
With the advent of managed health care, she struggles to give her
clients the best care she can. She talks about many of the clients
she met over the yearswhat therapies worked and which didn't, her
discomfort when she interacted with her clients in and around her
small country town, and the valuable lessons she learned about life
from her sessions with them. If therapists are exposed to what is
most tragic in life, we are also privy to what is most inspiring.
We have the benefit of experiencing many lives. If my work has
offered me the opportunity to learn wisdom and compassion, my wish
is that through these essays I may pass some of that gift along to
you. Diary of a Country Therapist is the honest scrutiny of a
psychotherapist's life from her own heart and soul. While this text
will be enlightening for mental health professionals of all kinds,
its accessible, jargon-free style makes it an excellent selection
for nonprofessionals who want insight into the mind of a practicing
therapist.
Gain remarkable insight about practicing therapy in a rural
community! In Diary of a Country Therapist, Dr. Marcia Hill
chronicles more than a decade of her thoughts and feelings about
practicing therapy in rural Vermont. The author reveals her empathy
for her clients, her frustration in money matters, and her anger at
the maltreatment of women. This book focuses not on the specifics
of her clients' cases, but on the trials, successes, and
fulfillment of working in this emotionally challenging profession.
What a strange line of work this is, where the ability to feel is
such a primary tool. Who would think that one's heart could be
harnessed and used intentionally as a resource? It's such a
paradox. My feeling response is what it is; it cannot be commanded
or faked. Yet it is not a matter of giving in to emotion, but one
of using feeling purposefully, like a scalpel. It's an experience
of simultaneous yielding and restraint. The job of the professional
empath is like that of an artist or poet: to take raw experience,
direct emotional response, and somehow make it a vehicle for change
and enlightenment. From liberating breakthroughs to personal
anguish, Diary of a Country Therapist is witness to a decade of
changes, both in Marcia Hill's practice and in her personal life.
With the advent of managed health care, she struggles to give her
clients the best care she can. She talks about many of the clients
she met over the yearswhat therapies worked and which didn't, her
discomfort when she interacted with her clients in and around her
small country town, and the valuable lessons she learned about life
from her sessions with them. If therapists are exposed to what is
most tragic in life, we are also privy to what is most inspiring.
We have the benefit of experiencing many lives. If my work has
offered me the opportunity to learn wisdom and compassion, my wish
is that through these essays I may pass some of that gift along to
you. Diary of a Country Therapist is the honest scrutiny of a
psychotherapist's life from her own heart and soul. While this text
will be enlightening for mental health professionals of all kinds,
its accessible, jargon-free style makes it an excellent selection
for nonprofessionals who want insight into the mind of a practicing
therapist.
Whether you're a therapist yourself, studying to become a
therapist, or simply interested in the mystery that often surrounds
therapy, More than a Mirror will show you the rarely discussed,
"invisible" side of the therapeutic experience--how clients
influence the person of the therapist. In this collection of
vignettes and thoughtful explorations, over 20 therapists describe
for you how particular clients, issues, and the practice of therapy
in general impact them as people. Writing about therapy is almost
universally about how therapists influence clients. In More than a
Mirror, therapists describe a range of responses to their work:
some talk about what they have learned from particular clients;
some discuss aspects of the work of therapy, such as bearing
witness to stories of trauma or having to report suspected child
abuse, and examine how these experiences affect them personally;
and some describe the gifts and costs of doing therapy as a life's
work. As you share these therapists'experiences, you'll notice some
themes running throughout, including: how doing therapy heals the
therapist empathy as a way to access transcendence the therapist's
responses to encountering racism the particular struggles of a new
therapist the personal toll of working with the dying the
therapist's sexual feelings how doing therapy changes the therapist
over time the struggles of working with angry or manipulative
clientsEditor Marcia Hill, EdD, a psychotherapist in private
practice, elaborates, "It is not easy to examine how deeply and
personally both the practice of therapy and individual clients
influence therapists as people. This book shows you that therapy is
not a one-way process, although the therapist is clearly there in
service of the client. . . . Yet therapy affects the therapist
profoundly and irrevocably. Every client moves us emotionally; we
learn something from each person. The business of bearing witness
to so many lives transforms us as no other work could. We may write
and talk about therapy as if it were all about how to impact the
client, but all the time we, too, are being impacted."
If you re a long-time veteran of feminist therapy or someone just
starting out, you ll find a helpful, reliable list of "dos" and
"don ts" in Learning from Our Mistakes: Difficulties and Failures
in Feminist Therapy. Frank and honest in tone, makeup, and style,
this one-of-a-kind publication looks at the failures and roadblocks
that have hampered feminist therapists in the past so you can learn
from their misfortunes and avoid them in your own professional
endeavors. In Learning from Our Mistakes, you ll come face-to-face
with classic difficult cases, and you ll see from a feminist
perspective how therapists used various treatments to deal with
these seemingly insurmountable challenges. You ll find that these
and other topics will help you in navigating the difficult
situations that arise in your personal practice: the pros and cons
of terminating with a client who has an eroticized transference
differences between therapists and clients in terms of race,
ethnicity, and age problems encountered by rural therapists in
small communities using a translator in therapy when the therapist
and client don t speak the same language feelings of anger in
therapy many other "log jams" in the therapeutic processIt s no
mistake that Learning from Our Mistakes is full of what works and
what doesn t. In it, three veteran discussants give you the tools
necessary to overcome the uncertainties and inadequacies that
plague therapists. You ll come away understanding the many ways
failure is embedded in both the theory and practice of
psychotherapy. Ultimately, you ll find that mistakes are really
only failure narratives waiting to be used, shaped, and turned
toward the positive experiences of both client and therapist.
Breaking the Rules: Women in Prison and Feminist Therapy challenges
therapists, public policymakers, voters, and those in the criminal
justice system to find treatment options, empowerment strategies,
viable resources, community support, and policies that can help
women with problems such as drug abuse, domestic violence, poverty,
and prostitution rather than perpetually punishing them.Breaking
the Rules shows you how our society makes other'of those among us
who are most vulnerable, injured, and without resources. It digs
under your skin and forces you to look at: the histories of abuse
among women who have murdered their partners the impact of race and
ethnicity on patterns of mothering and caretaking of children of
women prisoners the lack of treatment options for addicted women
prisoners how prison reawakens the feelings of powerlessness in
women who have suffered childhood physical and sexual abuse helping
women inmates develop marketable educational and vocational skills,
support systems, and positive perceptions of themselves
collaborative strategies that challenge the status quo of programs
and support available to female offenders and their families a
relational model of treatment that is based on the integration of
three theoretical perspectives the strengths and limitations of
twelve step programs for womenMapping the problems and offering
solutions, Breaking the Rules walks you through treatment
strategies and self-confirming experiences--such as feminist
therapy, prisoner-led support groups, affirmative prison
programming, and art therapy--that help women draw on their
strengths, come to terms with their pasts, and meet future
challenges head on.
Breaking the Rules: Women in Prison and Feminist Therapy challenges
therapists, public policymakers, voters, and those in the criminal
justice system to find treatment options, empowerment strategies,
viable resources, community support, and policies that can help
women with problems such as drug abuse, domestic violence, poverty,
and prostitution rather than perpetually punishing them.Breaking
the Rules shows you how our society makes other'of those among us
who are most vulnerable, injured, and without resources. It digs
under your skin and forces you to look at: the histories of abuse
among women who have murdered their partners the impact of race and
ethnicity on patterns of mothering and caretaking of children of
women prisoners the lack of treatment options for addicted women
prisoners how prison reawakens the feelings of powerlessness in
women who have suffered childhood physical and sexual abuse helping
women inmates develop marketable educational and vocational skills,
support systems, and positive perceptions of themselves
collaborative strategies that challenge the status quo of programs
and support available to female offenders and their families a
relational model of treatment that is based on the integration of
three theoretical perspectives the strengths and limitations of
twelve step programs for womenMapping the problems and offering
solutions, Breaking the Rules walks you through treatment
strategies and self-confirming experiences--such as feminist
therapy, prisoner-led support groups, affirmative prison
programming, and art therapy--that help women draw on their
strengths, come to terms with their pasts, and meet future
challenges head on.
How can you provide effective, meaningful therapy to couples with
whom you have little or nothing in common? Couples Therapy:
Feminist Perspectives addresses some of the inadequacies,
omissions, and assumptions in traditional couples therapy to help
you face the issues of race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation in
helping couples today. In this book, you'll uncover perspectives
that are grounded in an appreciation of cultural context, the
effects of privilege, and the centrality of a respectful stance on
the part of the therapist. Anyone seeking to do informed and
responsive work with couples in distress will find it a useful and
valuable compilation.Couples Therapy: Feminist Perspectives
describes a variety of feminist approaches to couples
therapy--giving you a sense of the range of feminist practice in
this area and illustrating approaches you can integrate into your
work with couples. Specific topics you'll explore include: cultural
considerations in couples therapy narrative approaches to couples
therapy dilemmas in working with heterosexual couples working with
lesbian couples the particular issues of interracial couples the
African-American lesbian couple empathy and mutuality in therapy
with couples Whether you're an experienced psychologist, social
worker, marriage and family counselor, or therapist or a student of
family and couples therapy, Couples Therapy: Feminist Perspectives
will help you prepare to respond effectively to a more diverse
clientele.
Whether you're a therapist yourself, studying to become a
therapist, or simply interested in the mystery that often surrounds
therapy, More than a Mirror will show you the rarely discussed,
"invisible" side of the therapeutic experience--how clients
influence the person of the therapist. In this collection of
vignettes and thoughtful explorations, over 20 therapists describe
for you how particular clients, issues, and the practice of therapy
in general impact them as people. Writing about therapy is almost
universally about how therapists influence clients. In More than a
Mirror, therapists describe a range of responses to their work:
some talk about what they have learned from particular clients;
some discuss aspects of the work of therapy, such as bearing
witness to stories of trauma or having to report suspected child
abuse, and examine how these experiences affect them personally;
and some describe the gifts and costs of doing therapy as a life's
work. As you share these therapists'experiences, you'll notice some
themes running throughout, including: how doing therapy heals the
therapist empathy as a way to access transcendence the therapist's
responses to encountering racism the particular struggles of a new
therapist the personal toll of working with the dying the
therapist's sexual feelings how doing therapy changes the therapist
over time the struggles of working with angry or manipulative
clientsEditor Marcia Hill, EdD, a psychotherapist in private
practice, elaborates, "It is not easy to examine how deeply and
personally both the practice of therapy and individual clients
influence therapists as people. This book shows you that therapy is
not a one-way process, although the therapist is clearly there in
service of the client. . . . Yet therapy affects the therapist
profoundly and irrevocably. Every client moves us emotionally; we
learn something from each person. The business of bearing witness
to so many lives transforms us as no other work could. We may write
and talk about therapy as if it were all about how to impact the
client, but all the time we, too, are being impacted."
Delivers specific guidelines for implementing human caring within
teaching practices along with a wealth of examples.Grounded in the
belief that translating caring science within teaching practices
will humanize nursing education, this important book emphasizes the
ways in which teachers can translate Human Caring and Caritas in
order to include strategies for establishing authentic caring
pedagogical relationships with their students. It aims to
strengthen Human Caring as the basis for humanitarian teaching and
to infuse the learning environment with caring practices for both
students and teachers. The work provides specific guidelines for
implementing Human Caring ethics, ontology, and epistemology
throughout the teaching-learning community and describes how to
translate caring values and assumptions into living Caritas as the
nurse teachers' moral ideal and praxis of authentic caring
pedagogical relationships. A wealth of case examples provided by
administrators, teachers, and students illustrate the value of a
humanitarian caring science paradigm for nursing education and
caring praxis. Key Features: Delivers an internationally renowned
scholars' perspective on teaching grounded in Human Caring Includes
exemplars of educators' lived teaching experiences guided by their
caring pedagogical praxis Provides examples of students' lived
learning experiences within a caring- teaching environment Offers
reflective practice exercises for nurse teachers to enhance their
caring pedagogical relationships with students Provides guided
caring artistic activities to promote ways of knowing, doing,
being, and becoming in nursing education This book provides an
antidote for the continuous dominant biomedical and behavioral
paradigm in nursing education.
The hallmark text for nursing faculty seeking to promote the
transformative teaching of caring science, Creating a Caring
Science Curriculum: A Relational Emancipatory Pedagogy for Nursing
reflects the paramount scholarship of Caring Science educators.
This second edition intertwines visionary thinking with blueprints,
exemplars, and dynamic direction for the application of fundamental
principles. It goes beyond the conventional by offering a model
that serves as an emancipatory, ethical-philosophical, educational,
and pedagogical learning guide for both teachers and
students.Divided into five units, the text addresses the history of
the caring curriculum revolution and its powerful presence within
nursing. Unit I lays the foundation for a Caring Science
curriculum. Unit II introduces intellectual and strategic
blueprints for caring-based education, including action-oriented
approaches for faculty-student relations, teaching/learning skills,
pedagogical practices, critical-reflective-creative approaches to
evolving human consciousness, and power relation dynamics. Unit III
addresses curriculum structure and design, the evolution of a
caring-based college of nursing, caring in advanced practice
education, and the development of caring consciousness in nurse
leaders. It also features real-world exemplars of Caring Science
curricula. Unit IV includes an alternative approach to clinical and
course-based evaluation, and the text concludes with an exploration
of the future of the Caring Science curriculum as a way of
emancipating the human spirit. Each chapter is structured to
maximize engagement with reflective exercises and learning
activities that encourage the integration of theory and practice
into the learning process. New to This Edition: Updated chapters,
case studies, and learning activities Six new chapters that provide
guidance on how to create a Caring Science curriculum Exemplars
from institutions that have developed Caring Science curricula Key
Features: Provides a broad application of Caring Science for
teachers, students, and nursing leaders Features case studies of
teacher/student lived learning experiences within a caring-loving
pedagogical environment Encourages the integration of theory and
practice into the learning process with learning activities and
reflective exercises Distills the expertise of world-renowned
Caring Science scholars Purchase includes digital access for use on
most mobile devices or computers
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