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FMT
Feminist and Multicultural Therapy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the defining features of feminist/multicultural therapy? | Multicultural approach that focus on gender roles, gender socialization, and a lack of power due to minority groups. |
| Who can feminist/multicultural therapy be used with? | All genders |
| What is intersectionality and how does it relate to therapy clients? | A theoretical framework that is used for understanding how identities may interact in unique ways that impact experiences of privilege and oppression |
| What does ADDRESSING refer to? | Feminist therapists attend to other social locations/identities that shape clients' experiences of empowerment/disempowerment in their everyday lives. To facilitate therapists' understanding/examination of clients' social locations/diverse identities... |
| What processes and techniques are used in feminist/multicultural therapy? | - gender role analysis - power analysis - assertiveness training - reframing/relabeling? |
| Gender Role Analysis: | Used in feminist therapy to increase clients' awareness of gender socialization and how prescribed gender-role expectations impact their psychological well-being |
| Power Analysis: | Helps clients understand the ways in which unequal access to power and resources can impact personal realities |
| Assertiveness Training: | Teaching clients how to stand up for their rights and express their opinions freely |
| Reframing/relabeling: | Shifting how clients think about their problems |
| What is the therapeutic relationship like in feminist/multicultural therapy? | Therapy is egalitarian and empowering, therapist aim to promote client empowerment and diminish power differences. Role of therapist may additionally include advocacy |
| How much evidence is there for the use of feminist/multicultural therapy? | - Highly effective for marginalized individuals - Less direct research |