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Introduction to Feminist Therapy: Strategies for Social and Individual Change
Focusing on the practical application of feminist theory to clinical experience, Introduction to Feminist Therapy provides guidelines to help therapists master social action and empowerment techniques, feminist diagnostic and assessment strategies, and gender-role and power analyses to foster individual and social change. This guide is ideal for graduate students enrolled in a techniques of counseling course and practitioners who wish to incorporate feminist therapy into their current approach, including how to apply feminist therapy to both women and men and how to deal with the gender issues of both sexes. Client/Therapist dialogues provide readers with examples of how each technique actually works in a therapeutic session. The text also provides case studies, coverage of ethical issues, and feminist assessment guidelines that show readers how to conduct a feminist assessment with and without using the DSM-IV-TR.
240 pages, Paperback
First published September 14, 2010
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July 2, 2022
Excellent, really clear and practical guide on how to actually do feminist therapy.
I will say there was some weirdness in this one that put me off at times. Gender is referred to in strictly
binary, cisgender terms with no inclusion of trans people except as passing mentions. One of the feminist therapy core tenets, “privileging women’s experiences,” is neutered by first saying this only means treating these as “equal” to men’s (rather than more important because women are the oppressed group) and then using it to justify unjust situations under the notion of “feminine experience” (eg a woman is told that she “values relationships” because she stayed in an emotionally unfulfilling relationship for 20 years).
Mostly this is minor and this is a pretty good starting point. Much clearer and more concrete than the feminist therapy volume published by APA.
I will say there was some weirdness in this one that put me off at times. Gender is referred to in strictly
binary, cisgender terms with no inclusion of trans people except as passing mentions. One of the feminist therapy core tenets, “privileging women’s experiences,” is neutered by first saying this only means treating these as “equal” to men’s (rather than more important because women are the oppressed group) and then using it to justify unjust situations under the notion of “feminine experience” (eg a woman is told that she “values relationships” because she stayed in an emotionally unfulfilling relationship for 20 years).
Mostly this is minor and this is a pretty good starting point. Much clearer and more concrete than the feminist therapy volume published by APA.
September 14, 2025
A lot of repetition, and the case study of Jared had some cringe moments that really drained from the strength from this modality.
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