SFSU 2014: 'Feminist Therapy' by April Martin Chartrand

Journal of Counseling & Development, 2005

Epiphany, 2012

This paper deals with the emergence and development of feminism in general and feminist psychology with special emphasis on feminist's reaction to traditional assumptions in Freudian psychology and male dominated theory and research. Feminist movement simply started as a women's activism which later claimed political identity and finally ended as women's liberation movement. Feminists simply advocate gender equality. Emergence of feminist psychology movement and appearance of significant female figures in psychology is further explained along with their contribution to the theory, personality and specific developmental issues along with its input to the therapy and counseling field. The influence of four feminist philosophical approaches namely, liberal feminism, cultural feminism, radical feminism and social feminism are also shortly discussed alongside with their practical implications. Above and beyond, feminist contribution to the therapy field reflected in offering specific therapy goals are also discussed. Self esteem as a core issue and one of feminist therapy goals is finally discussed and presented through a specific case study illustration. Feminist therapy is important therapy approach with significant therapy goals contribution in relation to women's mental health issues. Consideration of sex, gender, cultural diversity, etiology, diagnosis and treatment is feminist request for successful therapy because fixing woman for functioning in a dysfunctional society seems not enough.

Family Process, 2005

This article describes the state of feminist training in family therapy. Methods of assessment include questionnaires to all programs accredited by COAMFTE in universities and institutes and to leading institutes not accredited; interviews with editors of the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy; interviews with many who pioneered the feminist critique in family therapy; inspection of two major national conferences; and a search of publications. Although most program directors describe their programs as feminist and judge their training to be sufficient, their report contrasts with the perspectives of many of the journal editors and pioneers, with the small amount of training in gender issues at national conferences, and with the small number of publications. The authors offer discussion of the findings and recommendations.

Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2004

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1979

A sample of 201 women in feminist therapy and 207 women in traditional therapy was drawn from a national survey of women in consciousnessraising groups. Comparisons were made on political views at the time of entering-therapy and on demographic characteristics and evaluations of therapy. There were no differences between clients of feminist and traditional therapy on demographic characteristics, symptom levels, and overall levels of life stress. Clients of feminist therapists were more likely to describe their political views as radical and to identify themselves as members of the women's movement than were clients of traditional therapists. Clients of feminist therapists rated therapy as more helpful than clients of traditional therapy did. Clients who identified themselves as members of the women's movement evaluated feminist therapy as more helpful than traditional therapy; nonmembers evaluated feminist and traditional therapies as equally helpful. Over the past 10 years, there has been a growing movement by feminists in the mental health professions to develop therapies incorporating feminist principles. Although attempts to systematize feminist therapy are not yet definitive, discussions in the mental health literature agree on several points (e.g.,

In this study, we examine how highly informed therapists who identify as feminist: (a) describe how their feminist identities and ideas about feminism have evolved over time; (b) report stories of their own resistance to gender-based oppression; (c) report stories of their own collusion with the oppression of others; and (d) encourage clients to examine oppression and collusion of oppression of others. The following four categories emerged from our constructivist grounded theory analysis of one-on-one interviews: (a) Development of a Feminist Identity, (b) Strategies of a Feminist Family Therapist, (c) Recognizing Oppression and Injustice, and (d) Resisting: Methods and Consequences.

Handbook of Critical Psychology, 2015

In this chapter, I will start by presenting some different perspectives that compose the broad field of feminist theories and practices. Then, I will discuss the following psychological concepts that are problematized by feminist theories: autonomy, identity, and sexuality. After that, I will consider the contributions of feminist psychology for the area, its challenges and difficulties, offering some examples from researches and practices.

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