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Feminist
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how environmental conditions contribute to gender-role socialization and gender inequity, especially for women
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Post-modern
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there is no single truth
we produce our own lives |
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Family systems
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the individual can only be understood within the context of his/her family
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Integrative approach
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several theories play a crucial role
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Feminists speak of the need to make sure women have a "____" in society
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voice
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Feminist counseling
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the crucial challenge of our world today is this: to find your voice and inspire others to find theirs
finding your voice means finding what you love doing, that you feel passionate about, that serves a real need, and that your conscience tells you to do the client knows what is best for her life and is the expert on her own life emphasis on educating clients about the therapy process |
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Ways women's voices are altered according to feminists
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birth control, suffrage, abortion, appropriate dress, modesty
sociopolitical and cultural context |
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Tag questions
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women engage in them more than men
I'm hungry, aren't you? I've just proven gravity, do you think it's right? |
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Feminist counseling challenges traditional ways of assessing psychological health care
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when a women is depressed, she believes there is something organically clinically wrong with her
this may instead be a normal reaction to stressors in her life assumed that individual change will best occur through social change |
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Goals of feminist therapy
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social change and equality
become aware of one's gender-role socialization process become personally empowered |
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Intervention techniques in feminist therapy
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relabeling
reframing can make a problem seem more changeable social action bibliotherapy |
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Group Feminist Therapy
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provides an outlet for social support and political action
forms a diverse community where members share the goal of supporting women's experiences group setting decreases feelings of isolation and loneliness self-disclosure is emphasized clients learn to use power appropriately |
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Limitations of feminist psychotherapy
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therapists do not take a neutral stance, must be careful not to impose cultural values
the heavy environmental/sociopolitical focus may detract from exploring a client's intrapsychic experiences more empirical support needed |
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Post-modern perspective according to Nietzsche:
"All knowledge is ________" |
perspective
any knowledge or fact is embedded with a frame of reference |
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Constructivist Perspective (CNP)
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Focuses on the stories people tell about themselves and others about significant events in their lives
Therapeutic task: helps clients appreciate how they construct their realities and how they author their own stories |
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Social Constructionism:
the ______ is the expert _______ is used to elicit perspective, resources, and unique client experiences therapist supplies _________ and the ________ |
client
dialogue optimism; process |
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Social Constructionism Therapy Goals
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generate new meaning in the lives of clients
co-develop, with clients, solutions that are unique to the situation enhance awareness of the impact of the dominant culture on the individual |
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Solution-focused brief therapy
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grounded on a positive orientation - people are healthy and competent
past is downplayed, present and future are the focus shift from "problem orientation" to "solution focus" therapists assist clients in finding exceptions to their problems construct solutions rather than solve problems |
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Assumptions of Solution-Focused Therapy
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the problem itself may not be relevant to finding effective solutions
people create their own solutions small changes lead to large changes client is the expert, collaborative partnership ideal with therapist |
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Questions in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
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"how questions" that imply change
focus attention on solutions can open up possibilities for clients to do something different |
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3 types of client-therapist relationships in Solution-Focused Therapy
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Customer-type: client and therapist jointly identify a problem and a solution to work toward
Complainant: a client who describes a problem, but is not able or willing to take an active role in solution construction visitors: clients who come to therapy because someone else thinks they have a problem |
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Techniques in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
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Pre-therapy change
what have you done since you made the appointment that has made a diff to your problem? Exception questions when did the problem not exist? Miracle question: If a miracle happened and the problem you have was solved while you were asleep, what would be different in your life? Scaling: on a scale of 0 to 10, how far are you in resolving the problem? |
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Narrative Therapy
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listen to clients with open mind, respectful curiosity, persistence
encourage clients to share listen to a problem-saturated story of a client without getting stuck |
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Narrative Therapy Process
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name the problem
separate person from problem investigate how problem has been disrupting or dominating the person search for exceptions to the problem ask clients to speculate about future create audience to support new story |
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Externalization and Narrative Therapy
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a process of separating the person from identifying with the problem
helps clients free themselves from being identified with the problem externalizing convos can lead clients in recognizing times when they have dealt successfully with the problem |
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Deconstrucion and Alternative Stories in Narrative Therapy
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Problem-saturated stories are deconstructed before new stories are co-created
people constantly re-author their lives |
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Narrative group therapy
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new identities can be rehearsed
provides appreciative audience anger managment grief counseling academic management adventure-based |
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Limits of Postmodern Approaches
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therapists must be skilled in brief interventions
may be too mechanistic therapists MUST not judge the therapist's "not knowing stance" may not make therapist look like an expert more empirical evidence needed |