Gender-senstitive Therapy

1. Feminist therapy proceeds from the conviction that:

Women will never get a fair share of social, economic, and political rights

Women have been denied equal rights and share characteristics with other oppressed groups

Women are superior to men in many respects and are entitled to better access to power

Women are better at relationships than men and would use political and social power more wisely

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Gender sensitive therapy
-Feminist
-male-centered

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2. Feminist psychotherapy fundamentally emphasizes that:

A person's identity is profoundly influenced by gender roles

Male-centered personality theories can never explain female development

Therapy should focus on the elimination of social and political oppression

Women are better suited to treat women and less likely to reinforce oppressive beliefs

3. Research on the effectiveness of feminist and related therapy issues:

Is largely based in open uncontrolled studies

Has not been sufficiently evaluated

Shows some effects of therapist gender on Tx process but not outcome

All of the above

4. From a gender-sensitive perspective, most modern psychotherapy fundamentally is:

Androcentric

Female centered because most clients are women

Oppressive to women

Too costly for women

5. Socialization of men according to traditional stereotypes has left men to negotiate between which of the following two perils:

The big wheel or no sissy stuff

Alexithymia or give em' hell

The need to conform to stereotypes or risk being ostracized as unmasculine

Enacting the byproducts of male socialization or becoming the sturdy oak and give em hell