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Critical Issues in Psychotherapy examines new and existing models in psychotherapy and presents them in an accessible manner to the practitioner in training through illustrative therapy cases and practitioner commentaries. There are many new models that have emerged in psychotherapy in recent years; however; they have not often been made accessible to front line practitioners.
Bringing Feminist Issues to Therapy
Bringing Feminist Issues to Therapy
Second-wave feminism grew out of the civil rights movement and the youth culture of the 1960s. The women in what was then called the women's liberation movement fought for equal rights and an end to the outright discrimination that pervaded American society. Since then, women from diverse backgrounds, generations, and nations have taken up the cause of women's emancipation and devised forms of feminism to fit their needs and circumstances. Today, there is no single, agreed-on way to be a feminist, but a profusion of feminisms.
Feminist therapy was forged in the crucible of the women's liberation movement at the end of the 1960s. Protests against the mental health establishment had been commonplace in the progressive ...
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