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Still subversive after all these years: the relevance of feminist therapy in the age of evidence‐based practice

01 Mar 2006-Psychology of Women Quarterly (SAGE Publications)-Vol. 30, Iss: 1, pp 15-24
TL;DR: In this article, the authors address questions of the viability of feminist practice in the current Zeitgeist using the framework of responding to questions raised by doctoral students about feminist therapy, and address how feminist practice aligns with the evidence-based practice movement, particularly those aspects focusing on empirically supported therapy relationships.
Abstract: In this article, based on my Carolyn Wood Sherif Memorial Award Address, I address questions of the viability of feminist practice in the current Zeitgeist. Using the framework of responding to questions raised by doctoral students about feminist therapy, I address how feminist practice aligns with the evidence-based practice movement, particularly those aspects focusing on empirically supported therapy relationships. I propose that feminist diagnostic strategies enhance cultural competence for therapists, thus better preparing practitioners for the clients of the twenty-first century. Finally, I discuss the question of who is a feminist therapist, addressing issues of gender that have long challenged the universality of feminist therapy's applications.
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TL;DR: This book is the result of the American Psychological Association's Division of Psychotherapy Task Force aimed at applying psychological science to the identification and promulgation of effective psychotherapy.
Abstract: (2003). Psychotherapy Relationships That Work: Therapist Contributions and Responsiveness to Patients. Psychotherapy Research: Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 529-532.

332 citations

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TL;DR: As one of the part of book categories, subversive dialogues theory in feminist therapy always becomes the most wanted book.
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TL;DR: A content analysis of the 10 qualitative and quantitative studies on psychotherapy with transgender individuals is conducted, highlighting the limitations of the research base, describing diversity considerations, and recommending therapeutic practices that attend to gender, gendered systems of power, oppression, and privilege.
Abstract: This study reviews the research evidence on the effectiveness of attending to clients' gender identity and gender as a system of power in psychotherapy We begin with definitions and measures of gender identity and provide clinical examples Next, we summarize our search for studies to conduct two meta-analyses on: (a) randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of psychotherapy conducted with transgender clients, and (b) RCTs of the outcomes of psychotherapies that attend explicitly to gender as a system of power compared with another bona-fide psychotherapy Our search did not yield studies that fit either search criteria; thus, meta-analyses were not conducted Instead, we conducted a content analysis of the 10 qualitative and quantitative studies on psychotherapy with transgender individuals We conclude by highlighting the limitations of the research base, describing diversity considerations, and recommending therapeutic practices that attend to gender, gendered systems of power, oppression, and privilege

62 citations

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15 Jan 2016
TL;DR: The authors have written this book during a time of war, terrorist attacks, intense national debate concerning immigration policy and same-sex marriage, ongoing racial profiling and violence and gender-based physical and sexual violence, and growing income gap between the wealthy and the poor.
Abstract: It is important to situate this book in its particular social, historical, and political context. I have written this book during a time of war, terrorist attacks, intense national debate concerning immigration policy and same-sex marriage, ongoing racial profiling and violence and gender-based physical and sexual violence, and a growing income gap between the wealthy and the poor. This is also a time in the united States when children and adolescents are exposed either directly or indirectly to alarming rates of school and community violence and when many young women and men assume that the word “feminist” refers to women who “hate” men. The president of the united States is a biracial, African American and White man, and yet we continue to witness injustice around racial lines. On a global scale, we are witnessing an unprecedented rate of internal and external displacement (due to war, poverty, and ethnic and religious conflicts), human trafficking, and violence against women and girls. There is tremendous innovation in information technology, which

50 citations

01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: The TrueOutcomes Account (no cost) as mentioned in this paper is a tool that Prairie View A&M University uses for assessment purposes, which allows coursework assignments to serve as evidence that course objectives are met.
Abstract: TrueOutcomes Account (no cost): TrueOutcomes is a tool that Prairie View A&M University uses for assessment purposes. At least one of your assignments will be considered an "artifact" (an item of coursework that serves as evidence that course objectives are met) and will be loaded into both WebCT and TrueOutcomes. The assignment(s) to be used as TrueOutcomes artifacts will be identified by your instructor.

39 citations

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01 Jan 1979
TL;DR: Prochaska and Norcross as discussed by the authors reviewed 15 leading systems of psychotherapy and briefly surveyed another 30, thus providing a broader scope than is available in most textbooks, and demonstrated how much psychotherapy systems agree on the processes producing change, while showing how they disagree on the content that needs to be changed.
Abstract: Systematic and balanced, this comprehensive text uses a wealth of clinical case illustrations to help readers understand a wide variety of psychotherapies including psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, existential, person-centered, experiential, interpersonal, exposure, behavioral, cognitive, systemic, multicultural, and integrative. The Sixth Edition thoroughly analyzes 15 leading systems of psychotherapy and briefly surveys another 30, thus providing a broader scope than is available in most textbooks. Prochaska and Norcross explore each system's theory of personality, theory of psychopathology, and resulting therapeutic process and relationship. By doing so, they demonstrate how much psychotherapy systems agree on the processes producing change, while showing how they disagree on the content that needs to be changed. To bring these similarities and differences to life, the authors also present the limitations, practicalities, and outcome research of each system of psychotherapy.

1,195 citations


"Still subversive after all these ye..." refers background in this paper

  • ...My students taught me many things this spring, not least of which was how much more of a challenge it is for me to be genuinely egalitarian and open-minded in a teaching role compared to as a therapist. my sisters, Beverly Greene, Lillian Comas-Diaz, Melba Vasquez, Gwendolyn Keita, Maria Root, Linda Garnets, Ellen Cole, Lynne Bravo Rosewater, and my brother, Ken Pope, all own some of this honor....

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  • ...Yet in the textbooks on systems of psychotherapy studied by our beginning students (Corey, 2004; Prochaska & Norcross, 2003) when liberatory perspectives are included at all, feminist practice stands alone representing the call to acknowledgment of political realities in the psychotherapy office....

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  • ...When a feminist thinks about identity development you get Maria Root’s (2003) brilliant multifocal ecological model in which she uses the experiences of the “other,” in this case people of mixed racial heritage, as an explanatory launch pad for helping us see how we all are multiple in our identities and meanings....

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  • ...When a feminist thinks about identity development you get Maria Root’s (2003) brilliant multifocal ecological model in which she uses the experiences of the “other,” in this case people of mixed racial heritage, as an explanatory launch pad for helping us see how we all are multiple in our identities and meanings....

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Book
01 Jan 1984
TL;DR: A collection of essays about other writers, accounts of the civil rights movement and the antinuclear movement of the 1980s, and a vivid memoir of a scarring childhood injury and her daughter's healing words.
Abstract: In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces ranging from the personal to the political. Among the contents are essays about other writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the antinuclear movement of the 1980s, and a vivid memoir of a scarring childhood injury and her daughter's healing words.

697 citations


"Still subversive after all these ye..." refers background in this paper

  • ...Womanism, as initially defined by Alice Walker (1983), is a conscious integration of the worldviews of feminism and multiculturalism, with a focus not on the individual but on the collective identities of people living in non- European American communities....

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DatasetDOI
01 Jan 1995
TL;DR: In this paper, a task force was constituted to consider methods for educating clinical psychologists, third party payors, and the public about effective psychotherapies, and to emphasize the strength of what we have to offer.
Abstract: At the request of David Barlow, President of Division 12, and under the aegis of Section I I I , this task force was constituted to consider methods for educating clinical psychologists, third party payors, and the public about effective psychotherapies. Lacking the enormous promotional budgets,arid sales staff of pharmaceutical companies, clinical psychologists labor at a disadvantage to disseminate irnportant findings about innovations in psychological procedures. Despite the great strides in the development and validation of effective treatments, it is not clear that the benefit of our approaches is widely appreciated, even by other clinical psychologists. We believe that, i f the public is to benefit from the availability of effective psychotherapies, and i f clinical psychology is to survive in this heyday of biological psychiatry, APA must act to emphasize the strength of what we have to offer — a variety of psychotherapies of proven efficacy. We suggest that psychologists hold an advantage in being the primary scientists in the

673 citations

BookDOI
01 Jan 2006
TL;DR: This book discusses what qualifies as evidence of Effective Practice, how well Do Both Evidence-Based Practices and TAU Satisfactorily Address the Various Dimensions of Diversity, and are Efficacious Laboratory-Validated Treatments Readily Transportable to Clinical Practice.
Abstract: Editors Contributors Prologue 1. What Qualifies as Evidence of Effective Practice? 2. What Qualifies as Research on which to Judge Effective Practice? 3. Does Manualization Improve Therapy Outcomes? 4. Are Research Patients and Clinical Trials Representative of Clinical Practice? 5. What Should be Validated? 6. What Else Materially Influences What is Represented and Published as Evidence? 7. Do Therapies Designated as ESTs for Specific Disorders Produce Outcomes Superior to Non-EST Therapies? 8. How Well Do Both Evidence-Based Practices and TAU Satisfactorily Address the Various Dimensions of Diversity? 9. Are Efficacious Laboratory-Validated Treatments Readily Transportable to Clinical Practice? Dialogue: Convergence and Contention (after each chapter) References (after each chapter) Epilogue.

532 citations


"Still subversive after all these ye..." refers background in this paper

  • ...Feminists have spent three decades thinking about how to make the therapeutic relationship more egalitarian, more empowering, and how to give the client more of a voice in therapy, factors that are now considered important to empirically supported treatments (Bohart, 2005)....

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Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: This book is the result of the American Psychological Association's Division of Psychotherapy Task Force aimed at applying psychological science to the identification and promulgation of effective psychotherapy.
Abstract: (2003). Psychotherapy Relationships That Work: Therapist Contributions and Responsiveness to Patients. Psychotherapy Research: Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 529-532.

332 citations