Gender Biases and Therapists’ Conceptualization of Couple Difficulties

Guanipa, Carmen; Woolley, Scott R.

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“…The role of gender in family therapy should be examined (e.g., Dankoski, Penn, Carlson, & Hecker, 1998;Dermer, Hemesath, & Russell, 1998;Filkowski, Storm, York, & Brandon, 2001;Freeman, 1999;Guanipa & Woolley, 2000;Haddock, Zimmerman, & MacPhee, 2000;Hoffman & Pasley, 1998;Knudson-Martin, 1997;Stabb, Cox, & Harber, 1997;Vatcher & Bogo, 2001). Without sociocultural sensitivity and family visibility, family therapy research cannot reveal these families' unique experiences of treatment.…”

Section: Z C Y Chan and J L C Mamentioning

confidence: 98%

Daughter Praising, Mother Bashing: A Case Study From Hong Kong

Chan

Joyce

2004

Health Care for Women International

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In this paper, we present the case of a mother and daughter in family therapy. We call for a critical examination of Western literature that describes how a mother praises her child. I illustrate how one observer (the first author) perceives the issue of maternal praise differently from other observers. To illustrate the interaction between this family and the family therapist (the second author), some representative vignettes of the sixth session have been extracted for discussion. Ten observers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 7 of whom were master's students and 3 were doctoral students, observed the therapy sessions from the adjoining room. The article is composed of four parts: (a) parental styles and relationships in families with an anorectic daughter literature review; (b) vignettes of the sixth family therapy session; (c) the observers' comments about the therapist; and (d) discussion. The paper concludes with a question of whether the impact of praise on a child's development in Western society functions in the same way and produces the same effects on a child's development as it does in Chinese society.

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Section: Z C Y Chan and J L C Mamentioning

confidence: 98%

Daughter Praising, Mother Bashing: A Case Study From Hong Kong

Chan

Joyce

2004

Health Care for Women International

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“…Marriage and family therapists (MFTs) and other mental health practitioners are attempting to consider these issues as they treat women individually and within relational systems (Guanipa & Woolley, 2000;Rhoden, 2003). Few articles and studies have examined the issues female employees face in the workplace and how they affect the therapeutic process.…”

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Beyond the Frying Pan: Addressing Work Issues with Women in Therapy

Miller

Bryan

2005

Contemp Fam Ther

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In recent years, mental health practitioners have been exploring how women are balancing work and family. Given how this issue affects women's experiences in the corporate world and at home, marriage and family therapists are attempting to consider this concern as they treat female clients individually and within relational systems. Few articles and studies have examined the issues female employees face in the workplace and how the issues influence the therapeutic process. In this article, the authors examine the organizational, sociological, and cultural challenges women deal with at work and apply these areas to the therapeutic context. The authors present a case study of a female client enduring a difficult work situation, discussing how to view and approach this case from a feminist family therapy perspective.

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“…To employ a gender-sensitive lens is not utterly new to the study of family therapy (e.g., Dankoski et al, 1998;Guanipa & Woolley, 2000;Stabb et al, 1997;Vatcher & Bogo, 2001), but implementing this type of approach has been given scant attention in local family treatment circles, at both clinical and research levels. In fact, many clinicians in the West have stressed the importance of including clients' views of family treatment in research studies (e.g., Helmeke & Sprenkle, 2000;Locke & McCollum, 2001;Pinsof & Wynne, 2000;Reimers & Treacher, 1995), but this has simply not happened before in the arena of family therapy studies in Hong Kong.…”

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“…The researcher (ZC) was guided by two assumptions: (1) gender should be revisited and reassessed in family therapy research (e.g., Dermer, Hemesath, & Russell, 1998;Filkowski, Storm, York, & Brandon, 2001;Guanipa & Woolley, 2000;Haddock, Zimmerman, & MacPhee, 2000;Sprenkle & Piercy, 1992;Vatcher & Bogo, 2001); and (2) qualitative inquiry of client's views during the course of family therapy can enrich its knowledge and practice (e.g., Locke & McCollum, 2001;Pinsof & Wynne, 2000;Wark, 1994). Responding to both gender sensitivity and the need for the client's view in family therapy research, this study adopted a client-driven approach for data collection and analysis.…”

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A Feminist Family Therapy Research Study

Chan

Joyce

2006

Journal of Feminist Family Therapy

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In Hong Kong no one has ever explored a female anorectic's experience of family therapy by inviting her to review her family sessions. By using a retrospective approach, this single case study adopted an interpretative paradigm with an open-ended question regarding how the patient experienced the family sessions. The distinct feature of this data collection was that the patient served as a research instrument and was invited to review six family sessions in order to review her past session experiences. Five themes emerged from the patient's storied review of the sessions: (1) how she viewed her own personal characteristics; (2) her changed perceptions of her family relationships;(3) her perceptions of her family quarrels' dynamics; (4) her resistance to recovery; and (5) her significant events in family therapy. With this unique client-driven approach for qualitative inquiry-her hands were writing for her heart; her words expressed her experience. Thus, the

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Gender Biases and Therapists’ Conceptualization of Couple Difficulties

Cited by 11 publications

References 24 publications

Daughter Praising, Mother Bashing: A Case Study From Hong Kong

Daughter Praising, Mother Bashing: A Case Study From Hong Kong

Beyond the Frying Pan: Addressing Work Issues with Women in Therapy

A Feminist Family Therapy Research Study

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