Feminist Solution Focused

Feminist, Solution-Focused Theories, and Narrative overview
Guy M. Murrell
Grand Canyon University: UNV 502
April 17, 2013

Feminist, Solution-Focused Theories, and Narrative overview

Theory: Feminist
Key Concepts: Girl power, Women’s right, War on women, Effects on Society, Feminism in culture, Political lesbianism, Pro-feminism, Anti-feminism Women’s Health, Gender equality

Key theorist: (Bartowski and Kolmar 2005, 45) Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820) Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)

Appropriate population: Women understanding and exploring the female experience, figuring out if law and institutions oppose females, and figuring out what changes can be committed to their equality.

Inappropriate population: Women clients that feel no need to have equal rights, or have no filling of insecurity.

Therapist role: Ben Agger (1998) states that the major achievement of feminist theory is to make the politics of sex and gender central to understanding oppression. However, feminist theory is not only about understanding but also about action.

Client’s role: Many women know they are oppressed by patriarchy. They have the life experiences of belonging to an oppressed group and have most likely shared personal stories that reveal their wounds from patriarchy. Men, on the other hand, are less likely to recognize their gender privilege and probably have not shared stories of wounding women through their own oppressive behaviors nor have they grieved with other men over the harm they have caused to women.

Theory Strength: The strength of this theory is that it makes sense.

Limitations: The weaknesses lie in the fact that it is doing what it accuses others of doing: projecting meaning and intentions into interactions, that may or may not be there.

Key Terms: Gender, Depression, Empowerment, Honor women work experience, Feminist counseling theory, Equality, Sex role stereotyping.

Evidence based I believe cognitive behavior is evident based due to the research of various feminist therapists, and the clients that been treated and the data collected to prove that the clients are happier once the goals and objectives are met.

Special Training: FEMIP has established itself as one of the region 's three main finance providers for this type of operation, having allocated a little over e1/423 million since 2003.

II. Theory: Solution-focused

Key Concepts: Reality therapy maintains that the individual is suffering from a socially universal human condition rather than a mental illness.

Key Theorist: Milton Erickson and MRI models

Appropriate population: though postmodernism-based interventions are not inherently theories which suggest that a therapist is an expert, solution focused interventions require the therapist to be very active in directing all communication away problem saturated narrative and towards solution-saturated narratives.

Inappropriate population: The developers of SFBT spent hundreds of hours observing therapy sessions over the course several years, carefully noting the therapists’ questions, behaviors, and emotions that occurred during the session and how the various activities of the therapists affected the clients and the therapeutic outcome of the sessions.

Therapist Role: The idea is to get some momentum behind the process of solving.

Theory strength: This theory is far more concerned with investigating and accenting strengths and hopes then with diagnosing a problem.

Limitations Solution focused is based on the idea if you get people to start solving and stop analyzing the problem they will reach resolution.

Key Terms: Milton Erikson, Insoo Kim Berg, Binocular theory of change, Visitors, Eceptions

Research based: The key finding of this research is that Seligman, L., & Reichenberg, L.W. spent a great deal of time observing how this theory would benefit all clients to build a solid based behavioral theory.
Training: Solution Focused theory offer a variety of workshops and seminars for therapists, educators, and business people in Solution-Focused practices, along with specialty training in hypnosis, Erickson brief therapy, and sex therapy.

Narrative Overview

Narrative Therapy allows us to see the history, research, and practice of a post-structural approach. This theory was developed by David Epston and Michael White, this theory was developed based upon the idea that people experience various types of narratives throughout their lives. Many of these narratives are centered on who they are or who they see themselves becoming. These issues they enter into therapy are not restricted to a community, rather its found in the client. Within the narrative arena the clients are influenced and shape by their cultural discourses which depict the identity and power.

Narrative therapy is based upon a bountiful engagement in retelling the story this allow the client to readily engage in the narrative process of re-considering, re-appreciating, and re-authoring the client’s preferred lives and relationship. Narrative theory is an essential primer that illustrate with a clients diverse environment. They exhibit a generality that is not to be expected from narratives that sub serve an argumentative point in a highly interactive and competitive conversation. Such narratives are often highly fragmented and may require a different approach. Yet studies of spontaneous conversation also show a high frequency of narratives that command the attention of the client as they fully sharing their narratives to the therapist.

References

Murdock, Nancy L (2013,) Third Edition University of Missouri at Kansas city by Pearson Education, A case approach

Agger, Ben. 1998. Critical Social Theories: An Introduction. Boulder: Westview Press.Campbell, J., Elder, J., Gallagher, D. Simon, J., & Taylor, A (1999). Crafting the 'tap on the shoulder ': A compliment template for solution focused therapy. American Journal of Family Therapy, 27(1), 35 - 47. Gingerich, W. J. & Eisengart, S, (2000). Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

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References: Murdock, Nancy L (2013,) Third Edition University of Missouri at Kansas city by Pearson Education, A case approach Agger, Ben. 1998. Critical Social Theories: An Introduction. Boulder: Westview Press.Campbell, J., Elder, J., Gallagher, D. Simon, J., & Taylor, A (1999). Crafting the 'tap on the shoulder ': A compliment template for solution focused therapy. American Journal of Family Therapy, 27(1), 35 - 47. Gingerich, W. J. & Eisengart, S, (2000). Solution-Focused Brief Therapy | | | |