Learning from Our Mistakes
Difficulties and Failures in Feminist Therapy
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Learning from Our Mistakes
Difficulties and Failures in Feminist Therapy
About This Book
If you're a long-time veteran of feminist therapy or someone just starting out, you'll find a helpful, reliable list of "dos" and "don'ts" in Learning from Our Mistakes: Difficulties and Failures in Feminist Therapy. Frank and honest in tone, makeup, and style, this one-of-a-kind publication looks at the failures and roadblocks that have hampered feminist therapists in the past so you can learn from their misfortunes and avoid them in your own professional endeavors. In Learning from Our Mistakes, you'll come face-to-face with classic difficult cases, and you'll see from a feminist perspective how therapists used various treatments to deal with these seemingly insurmountable challenges. You'll find that these and other topics will help you in navigating the difficult situations that arise in your personal practice:
- the pros and cons of terminating with a client who has an eroticized transference
- differences between therapists and clients in terms of race, ethnicity, and age
- problems encountered by rural therapists in small communities
- using a translator in therapy when the therapist and client don't speak the same language
- feelings of anger in therapy
- many other "log jams" in the therapeutic process It's no mistake that Learning from Our Mistakes is full of what works and what doesn't. In it, three veteran discussants give you the tools necessary to overcome the uncertainties and inadequacies that plague therapists. You'll come away understanding the many ways failure is embedded in both the theory and practice of psychotherapy. Ultimately, you'll find that mistakes are really only failure narratives waiting to be used, shaped, and turned toward the positive experiences of both client and therapist.
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Index
- Adleman, Jeanne 69
- Anger therapy
- client description and 55ā56
- countertransference and 59ā60
- listening, value of 61
- therapist anxiety and 55ā56, 58
- therapist rejection and 59
- uncared-for child, anger venting and 56ā58
- unconditional love, therapeutic value of 57, 58, 61, 92
- Anxiety management, of client and therapist
- consultation issue and 53
- family dynamic issues and 51ā52
- multiple diagnoses, problems of 50, 52
- personal and career issues overlap and 50ā51
- pharmacotherapy and 52ā53
- social phobia and 50
- summary regarding 49
- of therapist 50, 52ā54
- Autonomy, in ethical reasoning 104
- Ballou, Mary 13
- Beneficence, in ethical reasoning 104, 105
- Canadian Code of Ethics for Psychologists 103
- Case examples
- of anger therapy 55ā61
- of anxiety management 49ā54
- of couples therapy, ethical-decision making in 31ā38
- of cross-cultural counseling 41ā47
- of eroticized transference 6ā11
- of ethical decision-making, feminist model of 115ā116, 118ā120
- of ethical decision-making, self-disclosure teaching approach to 32ā36
- See also Multiple issues, case example of
- Childs, E. Kitch 70
- Cole, Ellen 31
- Conditional duties, of ethical principles 104
- Countertransference
- in anger therapy 59ā60
- ethical decision-making and 109
- premature termination and 64ā65
- termination by client and 67ā68
- termination by therapist and 65ā67
- therapeutic failure and 14, 63ā64
- therapeutic failure narrative and 90ā91
- Crisis, therape...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- About the Editors
- Concerning FailureāMarcia Hill
- A Case of Eroticized TransferenceāNanette K. Gartrell
- One Case, Many Conversations: Toward MultiplicitiesāMary Ballou Gretchen Schmelzer
- Self-Disclosure as an Approach to Teaching Ethical Decision-MakingāEllen Cole
- Triangulated Therapy: Cross-Cultural CounselingāGeri Miller
- Managing Anxiety: The Clientās and MineāGloria Rose Koepping
- The Client Re-Visited: A Second Look at a Near FailureāRascha Levinson
- Where, Oh Where, Has the Therapeutic Alliance Gone? Disquieting Log-Jams in the Therapeutic RelationshipāMarcia Perlstein
- Meanings and Implications of Failure in TherapyāJeanne Adleman Marny Hall Natalie Porter
- A Feminist Model for Ethical Decision MakingāMarcia Hill Kristin Glaser Judy Harden
- Index