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Feminist therapy
About: Feminist therapy is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 407 publications have been published within this topic receiving 8708 citations.
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TL;DR: The ways in which family therapists who are aware of their own biases and those of the family can change sexist patterns through applying feminist principles to such areas as the contract, shifting tasks in the family, communication, generational boundaries, relabeling deviance, modeling, and therapeutic alliances are described.
Abstract: One might well ask what family therapy has to do with feminist therapy. Have not the family and the institutions that support it been the primary cause of maintaining women in their stereotyped sex roles? As feminists can readily point out, “The family has been the principal arena for the exploitation of women, and however deeply rooted in social structure that exploitation may be, it is through family structure that it makes its daily presence felt.”10 Chase’s question, “What does feminism demand of therapy?”10 is the question I would like to examine in the form, “What does feminism demand of family therapy?”
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01 Jan 1994TL;DR: In this paper, a dialogue with the reader about the relationship between feminist therapy and women's empowerment is described, and a discussion of the relationship in feminist therapy with women empowerment is presented.
Abstract: Introduction Toward a Subversive Dialogue with the Reader Feminism in Feminist Therapy Theory Theorizing from Diversity The Relationship inFeminist Therapy Naming the Pain: Diagnosis and Distress To Speak the Mother Tongue: Models of Case Conceptualization The Masters Tools: The Dilemma of Dealing with Patriarchy Feminism and Ethics Emerging from the Wilderness.
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15 Oct 1988
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate and redefine family transitions such as divorce, single-parent and female-headed households, and remarried couples who are attempting to integrate their respective children with ex-spouse and complicated networks of extended kin.
Abstract: Bringing new focus to the subject, THE INVISIBLE WEB investigates the family from a feminist perspective. Using the lens of gender, connections between mothers and daughters, fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, and husbands and wives are analyzed and given new meaning. The authors evaluate and redefine family transitions such as divorce, single-parent and female-headed households, and remarried couples who are attempting to integrate their respective children with ex-spouses and complicated networks of extended kin. They also reexamine traditional and emerging roles for women in their early, middle, and later years. Written in an engaging format, each chapter features an in depth analysis of how gender shapes the relationship in question. This discussion is followed by fascinating vignettes of actual cases from each of the four authors, whose approaches reflect different orientations to therapy.
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TL;DR: The purpose of this article is to point out that body image concerns are not restricted to eating disordered clients and can occur in women of any age.
Abstract: Psychological researchers have all but ignored body image issues of mid-life and older women, and medical researchers havelimited their concern to the impact of surgery or chronic disease on body image. The purpose of this article is to point out that body image concerns are not restricted to eating disordered clients and can occur in women of any age. The impact of various aspects of aging on body image is described, and implications for the practice of feminist therapy are discussed.
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