"Briefly, feminists believe the personal is political. Basic tenets of feminism include a belief in the equal worth of all human beings, recognition that each individual's personal experiences and situations are reflective of and an influence on society's institutionalized attitudes and values, and a commitment to political and social change that equalizes power among people. Feminists are committed to recognizing and reducing the pervasive influences and insidious effects of oppressive societal attitudes and society" (Chappell 2000). In its current incarnation, feminist therapy's stress upon liberating individuals from oppressive social attitudes does not just pertain only to gender, but all negative social attitudes. Thus, at its most universal, feminist therapy's central tenant that the personal and political are intermeshed, and that one's political reality creates one's cognitive reality, can be applied to many contexts beyond gender. Although it deals with the psychology created by oppression, feminist therapy still stresses personal choice and empowerment, especially for women who are often encouraged to 'put themselves last.' But community-spiritedness is also important, given how collective action, as opposed to rampant individualism, has played an important role in the history of the women's...
In this sentiment feminist therapy also echoes reality therapy, in which the therapist must "remain non-judgmental and non-coercive, but encourage people to judge all they are & #8230;Is what I am doing getting me closer to the people I need? If the choice of behaviors is not getting people closer, then the counselor works to help them find new behaviors that lead to a better connection" (Reality therapy, 2008, International Journal of Reality Therapy). Feminist therapy would also ask: is what I am doing getting me closer to the person I would like to become, and getting me away from the constructed self that norms about gender have tried to 'push' or compel me into assuming? Reality and feminist therapies are positive ways of helping clients, their advocates would stress, because they both create a healthier self-image yet encourage the client to engage with and communicate more fruitfully with others.
A multi-culturally competent therapist will take all of these aspects of her life into consideration and realize that June's thoughts and actions are a direct result of her social and political culture. Asian culture in itself, Chinese culture, Eastern culture, is very different from Western culture. In Eastern culture, the whole family is taken into consideration for just about anything. When an individual does something, it is because it
Therapeutic Models Psychodynamic & Person-Centered Therapies Psychodynamic theory and client-centered theory provide significant basis for recent therapeutic methods. Where both the therapeutic methods emphasize on improving the condition of the subject, they follow different schools of thoughts which is well-reflected in their applications as well. Since psychodynamic and client-centered therapy focuses on eliminating various aspects of past life and improving the subject's perception of self-worth in relation with present and future
Women in the United States between the ages of 47 and 65 are reaching retirement age and are facing an unstable world of retirement in regard to dwindling income sources (Gualco, 2012). In addition, corporations are downsizing their employees, and the population of Baby Boomer women is the biggest group of people affected by this forced early exit from the work environment (Brown, 2006).Close to 47% of these women
Likewise, the therapist in front of the mirror is expecting a credible "performance" that illuminates and furthers the therapeutic process (Johnson et al., 1997). Solution-focused therapy encourages all participants to attend to their own wants and needs, not just those of their partners. Depending on the goal, therapists recommend that each participant take charge of caring for oneself as well as appreciating how his or her own actions influence others
family therapy models, diagnosis and principles are compared based upon Bowen's Transgenerationaland/Family Systems model with Minuchin's Family therapy. Later on, we will see the link between the two and the relationship of each model to divorce. In the case study, we will attempt to apply the lessons of the Bowen/Ackerman and Minuchin style approaches to get to the underlying causes of a patient's depressive disorder. The goal of the counseling
Human beings are manifest as male and female. The long absence of a female deity has resulted in the repression of the female energy as subordinate and less important than that of the male. However, Woodman's suggestion of the Goddess Kali and Shearer's suggestion of Themis could serve as bases for reconciliation within the self and between the genders on a collective level. Ann Shearer (in Huskinson, 2008, p. 49) notes
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