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The limited amount of empirical work reported has been mostly uncontrolled (Smith 1985); therefore, there is a lack of controlled research on single-gender treatment. All readers can understand the problems at hand because the researchers go into great detail to understand the issues women are confronted within a mixed-gender program. Confrontational style of traditional treatment approaches is unsuitable for women (Kauffman, Dore & Nelson-Zlupko 1995). At the group level, women are more apt to discuss concerns with a single gender group rather than a mixed gender group. In a mixed gender group, women are more likely to withhold information disclosing little information to the group. The lack of openness may adversely affect the client's overall outcome of…
Caplan, P. (2004). “The Debate About PMDD and Sarafem: Suggestions for Therapists,” Women and Therapy: A Feminist Quarterly. 27 (3): 55-67/…
Use the other door. Don’t touch the white folk, they think we have diseases. Don’t make eye contact for too long. Never hand them their coffee. Don't tell them how to treat their babies. Don’t react when they hit ‘em, even if that baby feels like your own. Don’t miscount the silver. Use the bathroom outside. Don’t fight back. Don’t fight back. Don’t fight back. In the 1960’s, racism, sexism, classes, and many other evils hung low in the air like a heavy fog. People of color in the South especially, were oppressed in so many forms. They were oppressed due to their race, their financial status, job opportunities, and gender. The list could go on and on. In The Help, all of the main characters experienced all of these, until a white woman…
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Jones-Smith, E. (2012). Feminist Therapy and Lesbian and Gay Therapy. In Theories of counseling and psychotherapy: An integrative approach (p. 387).…
The resources that have demonstrated characteristics of gender roles or have input on this topic have made their way into literature and journals that have opened the door to gender topics and what that can entail. Literature has demonstrated people’s beliefs, wants, downfalls, and differences on the subject of gender roles. These pieces of literature have proven the change which has been made over time through the transformation of gender classification. Literature such as this is what has made a better understanding and sense of relief on this suppressing stereotype.…
Simply gaining a place in the study of psychology was no small feat. It took countless women, over the course of many decades, just to earn the right to discuss theories of their own psyche. Now that women had a voice in psychology, it was the goal of many female psychologists to demolish the weak and incapable social image of women that male psychologists had promoted for so many decades. Even before Sigmund Freud’s implication of his degrading theories towards women, men had the power to manipulate, control, and brand women because they were the only holders of authority. The concept that women were controlled by their reproductive systems was almost regarded as fact and supported the beliefs that women were feeble and “highly nervous by…
Feminist sociologists believe that society is patriarchial – which means that a system of society or government is controlled purely by male figures. Feminist sociologist try to get women more involved in the community and try to enforce gender equality or even make the females more superior to men. Feminists believe there are several differences in society between men and women who they would like to make equal. One of these differences is – Gender oppression. Gender oppression is a theory that women are actively oppressed and even abused by men. They believe that power is a key part that can be changed in the two main theories of gender oppression.…
In looking at comparing person centred therapy with feminist perspectives I first thought that they were quite similar. However, with further research I discovered that in fact they are quite different approaches to therapy. In this essay I will compare and contrast both of these approaches to therapy. I will pay particular attention to key concepts, therapeutic goals, theory of change, the therapeutic relationship and situations where the therapies are appropriate and also inappropriate.…
References: Bartone, P. & Ender, M. (1994). Organizational Responses to Death in the Military. Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C. Death Studies, 18, 25- 39.…
Men and boys also suffer from things like domestic violence. Those who are abused, are told that they’re ‘weak’ and need to ‘man up’. Things like this tells men, not only that they should act a certain way, but also that treating people badly is okay if their different. Which leads to bullying. This is done by implying that ‘like a man’ is better than being 'like a woman'. Men who are abused by their partners are seen as jokes. This is because a lot of people have the idea that men need to be ‘strong’, ‘manly’ and ‘unemotional’. Because being anything close to a woman is apparently an insult. And contrary to popular belief, feminism fights for men too. Feminism is about equality, not one gender being better than the other. Men are assaulted and abused because of sexism. They are laughed at for wearing skirts or dresses. But do you know who mostly does this to them? Its other men. Men are the ones insulting other men for being ‘weak’, because that’s being ‘like a…
Though, feminism can help eliminate the effects of sexism. By bringing awareness to problems and fighting for the rights women deserve, American men and women in the workplace could finally become…
The focus of this essay was on how the female body and the disabled body are seen as inferior in society. This reading really made me realize how we view disabled and female bodies in our society, and how we typically look the disabled so differently. I also thought about how often people so easily overlook the struggles that many disabled bodies have to deal with, like disabled women who want to have children or public facilities not having wheelchair access. It’s sad to recognize how most people see the disabled as inadequate and compensate for that by pitying them, rather than trying to treat them the same way as an able-bodied person. This essay made me think of one of my good friend’s older sister with Down syndrome, and how when we are out in public with her how many people stare at her because her disability is visible. I found it interesting how this essay talked about how the female body is seen as disabled and inferior to men’s: weak, soft, passive, etc. This essay sheds light on how our society has been trained to undervalue those whose bodies are considered abnormal.…
Women for years have been socially oppressed and not given gender equality. Feminism is the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, economical and social equality to man. According to the Dictionary of Critical Theory, feminism’s common core is the thesis that the relationship between the sexes is one of inequality or oppression and that all forms of feminism seek to identify the cause of that inequality and remedy it.…