Integrating Gender and Culture in Family Therapy Training

Don't let hidden cultural expectations sabotage your therapeutic relationships! Integrating Gender and Culture in Family Therapy Training offers positive strategies for teaching your students to understand the ways in which cultural expectations affect individuals, society, the therapeutic relationship, and even the relationship between supervisor and trainee. Integrating Gender and Culture in Family Therapy Training explores the ways you and your students can become more effective by bringing your unspoken assumptions into the light. It presents empirical research and personal experiences dealing with multicultural and gender issues in therapy and therapist training programs. In addition, it offers dialogues with some of the founders of feminist family therapy, cultural studies, and a hilarious spoof of pop-psychology approaches to gender issues.Integrating Gender and Culture in Family Therapy Training offers practical strategies for: - working with families in poverty - cross-cultural interactions in the supervisor/trainee relationship - integrating gender and culture into coursework, supervision, research, service, and clinical environments - teaching and modeling multicultural awareness - dealing with the inevitable conflicts, misperceptions, and misunderstandings that arise because of clashing cultural expectationsThis book takes a searching view of the dynamics and implications of power, gender, class, and culture, including such tough issues as: - the moral issues of feminist therapy - using the excuse of cultural tradition to mask abuses - therapists'hidden gender assumptions - ways feminist family therapy speaks--or fails to speak--to women of color, minority women, and women in povertyIncluding case studies, figures, tables, and humor, Integrating Gender and Culture in Family Therapy Training will enhance your effectiveness as a supervisor or therapist and inspire you to rethink your own cultural assumptions.

Toni Schindler Zimmerman

Contents - Preface: Integrating Gender and Culture in Family Therapy Training - The Weave of Gender and Culture in the Tapestry of a Family Therapy Training Program: Promoting Social Justice in the Practice of Family Therapy - Therapists' Gender Assumptions and How These Assumptions Influence Therapy - Differences Marking a Difference: Cross-Cultural Interactions in Supervisory Relationships - Neither Mask nor Mirror: One Therapist's Journey to Ethically Integrate Feminist Family Therapy and Multiculturalism - Conversations with the Founders of the Women's Project on the Integration of Gender and Culture in Family Therapy Training - Feminism, Moral Consultation, and Training - When a Family Therapist Goes Pop - A Movie Review of Will, Cole, and Kate - Experiencing Feminist Family Therapy Supervision - Therapy with Families in Poverty: Application of Feminist Family Therapy Principles - A Conversation with Evan Imber-Black, PhD: Progress and Challenges in Integrating Gender and Culture in Family Therapy Training - Reflections on Current Feminist Training in Family Therapy - Index - Reference Notes Included