Feminist Family Therapy: Empowerment in Social Context / Edition 1

by Louise B. Silverstein, Thelma Jean (Eds.) Goodrich, Thelma Jean Goodrich

Overview

Feminist Family Therapy offers case-based discussions that address race, gender, and class as they effect the personal problems of individual families. While keeping an explicit focus on clinical work, this volume highlights power differentials in families and larger systems. Notable authors examine family issues such as couple intimacy, divorce, migration, lesbian mother families, and parent-child conflict. This book is sure to inspire therapists who have been working with an individual focus to include feminist-family-therapy in their work. It will also contribute to the continuing development of feminist theory and practice in family therapy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781591470212
Publisher:	American Psychological Association
Publication date:	05/28/2003
Series:	Psychology of Women Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.30(d)

Table of Contents

	Contributors	xi
	Foreword	xiii
	Preface	xv
	Acknowledgments	xix
I.	Considering the Historical Context of Feminism in Family Therapy	1
Chapter 1.	A Feminist Family Therapist's Work Is Never Done	3
Chapter 2.	Classic Texts and Early Critiques	17
II.	Reframing Life-Cycle Issues	37
Chapter 3.	Over the Rainbow: The Lesbian Family	39
Chapter 4.	"I Can't Go Back": Divorce as Adaptive Resistance	51
Chapter 5.	Repairing the World: An Adolescent and Her Parents	65
Chapter 6.	Loyalty to Family of Origin	79
Chapter 7.	Gender in Stepfamilies: Daughters and Fathers	91
III.	Contextualizing Racial and Ethnic Identities in Families	105
Chapter 8.	Contemporary African American Families	107
Chapter 9.	Relationships Between Women in Families: Voices of Chivalry	121
Chapter 10.	Confucian Past, Conflicted Present: Working With Asian American Families	135
Chapter 11.	The Black Madonna: The Psychospiritual Feminism of Guadalupe, Kali, and Monserrat	147
IV.	Recognizing Power in Families	161
Chapter 12.	Helping Men Embrace Equality	163
Chapter 13.	Treating Male Alexithymia	177
Chapter 14.	Women's Secrets in Therapy	189
Chapter 15.	Gendered Constraints to Intimacy in Heterosexual Couples	199
Chapter 16.	Gender, Marriage, and Depression	211
Chapter 17.	Bringing Power From the Margins to the Center	225
V.	Analyzing Service Delivery Systems	239
Chapter 18.	Incarcerated African American Women	241
Chapter 19.	A Venn Diagram: Feminism, Family Therapy, and Family Medicine	253
Chapter 20.	Gender, Couples, and Illness: A Feminist Analysis of Medical Family Therapy	267
Chapter 21.	The Women's Center: Feminism in the Treatment of AIDS	281
VI.	Addressing Sociopolitical Forces	291
Chapter 22.	Creating Collectives of Liberation	293
Chapter 23.	Biracial Lesbian-Led Adoptive Families	307
Chapter 24.	Assessment of Domestic Violence	319
Chapter 25.	Class, Culture, and Gender in Immigrant Families	333
VII.	Examining Supervision in Feminist Family Therapy	349
Chapter 26.	The Gender Metaframework	351
Chapter 27.	Naming Injustice, Engendering Hope: Tensions in Feminist Family Therapy Training	365
	Author Index	379
	Subject Index	385
	About the Editors	393