Feminist Family Therapy: Empowerment in Social Context

by Silverstein, Louise B.

• ISBN13: 9781591470212
• ISBN10: 1591470218
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

Summary

Text brings together notable feminist contributors to examine and deconstruct the mores that have traditionally guided family therapy. Examines family issues such as divorce, adolescent-parent relationships, step-families, and couple intimacy. For practitioners.

Table of Contents

Contributors	xi
Foreword	xiii
Rachel T. Hare-Mustin
Preface	xv
Acknowledgments	xix
I. CONSIDERING THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF FEMINISM IN FAMILY THERAPY	1	(36)
A Feminist Family Therapist's Work Is Never Done	3	(14)
Thelma Jean Goodrich
Classic Texts and Early Critiques	17	(20)
Louise B. Silverstein
II. REFRAMING LIFE-CYCLE ISSUES	37	(68)
Over the Rainbow: The Lesbian Family	39	(12)
Kris Halstead
``I Can't Go Back'': Divorce as Adaptive Resistance	51	(14)
Joy K. Rice
Repairing the World: An Adolescent and Her Parents	65	(14)
Kaethe Weingarten
Loyalty to Family of Origin	79	(12)
Roberta L. Nutt
Gender in Stepfamilies: Daughters and Fathers	91	(14)
Anne C. Bernstein
III. CONTEXTUALIZING RACIAL AND ETHNIC IDENTITIES IN FAMILIES	105	(56)
Contemporary African American Families	107	(14)
Ruth L. Hall
Beverly Greene
Relationships Between Women in Families: Voices of Chivalry	121	(14)
Leslye King Mize
Confucian Past, Conflicted Present: Working With Asian American Families	135	(12)
Liang Tien
Kari Olson
The Black Madonna: The Psychospiritual Feminism of Guadalupe, Kali, and Monserrat	147	(14)
Lillian Comas-Diaz
IV. RECOGNIZING POWER IN FAMILIES	161	(78)
Helping Men Embrace Equality	163	(14)
Gary R. Brooks
Treating Male Alexithymia	177	(12)
Ronald F. Levant
Women's Secrets in Therapy	189	(10)
Evan Imber-Black
Gendered Constraints to Intimacy in Heterosexual Couples	199	(12)
Cheryl Rampage
Gender, Marriage, and Depression	211	(14)
Peggy Papp
Bringing Power From the Margins to the Center	225	(14)
Lynn Parker
V. ANALYZING SERVICE DELIVERY SYSTEMS	239	(52)
Incarcerated African American Women	241	(12)
Janet Brice-Baker
A Venn Diagram: Feminism, Family Therapy, and Family Medicine	253	(14)
Lucy M. Candib
Gender, Couples, and Illness: A Feminist Analysis of Medical Family Therapy	267	(14)
Susan H. McDaniel
Kathleen Cole-Kelly
The Women's Center: Feminism in the Treatment of AIDS	281	(10)
Anitra Pivnick
VI. ADDRESSING SOCIOPOLITICAL FORCES	291	(58)
Creating Collectives of Liberation	293	(14)
Rhea V. Almeida
Biracial Lesbian-Led Adoptive Families	307	(12)
Natalie S. Eldridge
Susan E. Barrett
Assessment of Domestic Violence	319	(14)
Michele Harway
Class, Culture, and Gender in Immigrant Families	333	(16)
Jaime Inclan
VII. EXAMINING SUPERVISION IN FEMINIST FAMILY THERAPY	349	(30)
The Gender Metaframework	351	(14)
Betty Mac Kune-Karrer
Catherine Weigel Foy
Naming Injustice, Engendering Hope: Tensions in Feminist Family Therapy Training	365	(14)
Jean Turner
Judith Myers Avis
Author Index	379	(6)
Subject Index	385	(8)
About the Editors	393