How can you provide effective, meaningful therapy to couples with whom you have little or nothing in common? Couples Therapy: Feminist Perspectives addresses some of the inadequacies, omissions, and assumptions in traditional couples therapy to help you face the issues of race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation in helping couples today. In this book, you'll uncover perspectives that are grounded in an appreciation of cultural context, the effects of privilege, and the centrality of a respectful stance on the part of the therapist. Anyone seeking to do informed and responsive work with couples...
How can you provide effective, meaningful therapy to couples with whom you have little or nothing in common? Couples Therapy: Feminist Perspectives ad...
Whether you're a therapist yourself, studying to become a therapist, or simply interested in the mystery that often surrounds therapy, More than a Mirror will show you the rarely discussed, "invisible" side of the therapeutic experience--how clients influence the person of the therapist. In this rare collection of vignettes and thoughtful explorations, over 20 therapists describe for you how particular clients, issues, and the practice of therapy in general impact them as people.
Whether you're a therapist yourself, studying to become a therapist, or simply interested in the mystery that often surrounds therapy, More than a Mir...
Breaking the Rules: Women in Prison and Feminist Theory examines how women in prison can reconstruct their lives if offered the correct help with such problems as drug abuse, domestic violence, and prostitution. Readers will also learn how a woman's past abuse, both physical and sexual, leads to feelings of powerlessness, making the need for empowerment strategies in prison even greater.
Breaking the Rules: Women in Prison and Feminist Theory examines how women in prison can reconstruct their lives if offered the correct help with such...
Examining how language, behavior, and political thinking influence therapeutic methods, Feminist Therapy as a Political Act offers suggestions on how to make psychotherapy a method for creating social and individual change. Readers will learn how to incorporate political consciousness into sessions in the individual, hospital, or community setting by modifying therapy techniques, recognizing the importance of client identity, and examining therapy methods in such countries as Israel and Japan.
Examining how language, behavior, and political thinking influence therapeutic methods, Feminist Therapy as a Political Act offers suggestions on how ...
Whether you're a therapist yourself, studying to become a therapist, or simply interested in the mystery that often surrounds therapy, More than a Mirror will show you the rarely discussed, "invisible" side of the therapeutic experience--how clients influence the person of the therapist. In this rare collection of vignettes and thoughtful explorations, over 20 therapists describe for you how particular clients, issues, and the practice of therapy in general impact them as people.
Whether you're a therapist yourself, studying to become a therapist, or simply interested in the mystery that often surrounds therapy, More than a Mir...
Harness the power of an integrative approach to couples counseling Why do marriages fail? The behaviorist or cognitive therapist explains that unhappy couples have self-defeating ways of thinking about their spouses and themselves. The sociologically oriented counselor points to the impact of social trends and dramatic changes in child-rearing and social expectations. A therapist oriented toward psychodynamics or systems theory sees the destructive patterns of childhood replayed in the marriage, with spouses taking on rigid roles. The pastoral or humanist counselor believes that...
Harness the power of an integrative approach to couples counseling Why do marriages fail? The behaviorist or cognitive therapist explains th...
