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Title: Feminist Therapy


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Feminist Therapy
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Themes
  • The personal is political
  • Problems originate in a political and social
    context
  • Commitment to social change
  • Not only help clients but society change as well
  • Clients voices and ways of knowing are valued and
    their experiences are honored
  • Increase silenced voices of women, etc.
  • Value ones emotions, intuition, and experience
  • Egalitarian counseling relationship
  • No power imbalance
  • Focus on strengths and reformulated definition of
    psychological distress
  • Distress is not looked at as a disease but as a
    coping mechanism
  • All types of oppression are recognized
  • Social and political inequities have a negative
    effect on all people

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Process
  • Become aware of their own gender-role
    socialization process
  • Identify their internalized messages and replace
    them with more self-enhancing beliefs
  • Understand how sexist and oppressive societal
    beliefs and practices influence them in negative
    ways
  • Acquire skills to bring about change in the
    environment
  • Restructure institutions to rid them of
    discriminatory practices
  • Develop a wide range of behaviors that are freely
    chosen
  • Evaluate the impact of social forces on their
    lives
  • Develop a sense of personal and social power
  • Recognize the power of relationships and
    connectedness
  • Trust their own experience and their intuition

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Process
  • Therapist work to
  • Equalize power base in the therapeutic
    relationship
  • Focus on clients power and ability to make
    decisions
  • Self disclose

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Process
  • Gender-role analysis
  • Examine messages about expected behavior
  • Gender-role intervention
  • Examine how social expectations effect problems
    they are experiencing
  • Power analysis and power intervention
  • Difference in power between men and women in
    society
  • Assertiveness training
  • Reframing and relabeling
  • See behaviors as coping skills rather than
    diagnoses
  • Bibliotherapy and Scriptotherapy
  • Social Action
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