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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.
This book examines a variety of psychological intervention
strategies used in counseling and therapy to bring about change. It
is a handbook of strategies which reviews major forms of
interventions, reviews research evidence of effectiveness, and
challenges existing theoretical boundaries. In contrast to existing
handbooks, Ballou offers interventions identified by their goal of
change, rather than by a particular theoretical orientation or the
kind of difficulty the client is undergoing. Each chapter describes
a strategy, presents clear instruction for its use, and considers
appropriate and inappropriate uses for the strategy. Each chapter
also addresses the research evidence underlying claims of
effectiveness. Edited by an academic and practitioner of counseling
psychology, the book seeks to address the needs of both
professionals in the field and students and scholars in the
academic community.
This volume, synthesizing over 20 years of feminist thinking,
presents original critiques of mainstream psychological theories
and lays the groundwork for the development of a context-based,
feminist psychological theory. Reappraising personality theories,
Part I of the volume examines the limitations that underlie
traditional views of human nature as well as the consequences of
not taking into account the effects of contextual and structural
forces upon human development. The initial chapters utilize
feminist analyses of gender, context, and structure to assess the
adequacy of the metaphysic in traditional personality theories'
assumptions. Following chapters examine the impact and limits of
empiricism as the dominant model of knowledge generation within
cognitive-behavioral theories; identify Jung's biases, which are
integral to his use of rationalism as an epistemic method; and
demonstrate the class and culture biases implicit in personality
theories. In essence, the limits and dangers of single-use
epistemological approaches are illuminated, and fundamental
considerations--What is reality and by whom is it defined?--are
posed. Part II focuses on traditional views of psychopathology, and
provides feminist critiques of its models and conceptualizations.
These chapters address current mainstream models of several large
categories of psychopathology--depression, schizophrenia,
agoraphobia, personality disorders, and trauma--and present
feminist revisions for differently understanding these sets of
observed behaviors. Eschewing the notion that psychopathology
simply constitutes inner distress, chapters argue that in some
cases certain forms of distress may be highly adaptive means of
coping with intolerable situations and, in fact, may be appropriate
responses to external reality. A common theme demonstrated in these
chapters is that by describing distress as a highly individualized
phenomenon, and ignoring the context and complexity of these
entities, mainstream models are overly narrow in focus. Questioning
the very foundations of our ideas about psychopathology, the
authors argue for building new models that define distress in a
more complex, contextual manner.
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