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Teaching Feminist Counselor Responses to Novice Female Counselors
Author(s) -
CUMMINGS ANNE L.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
counselor education and supervision
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.608
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1556-6978
pISSN - 0011-0035
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6978.2000.tb01798.x
Subject(s) - counselor education , psychology , empowerment , graduate students , perspective (graphical) , context (archaeology) , medical education , applied psychology , pedagogy , psychotherapist , higher education , medicine , paleontology , artificial intelligence , political science , computer science , law , biology
This article describes an innovative teaching method to teach novice counselors 4 counselor responses based on selected goals of feminist counseling. Using a workshop format and ongoing group supervision, graduate student counselors were taught 4 counselor responses: empowerment, decreasing the power differential between client and counselor, taking a gender role perspective, and placing client issues in a sociocultural context. An evaluation of the teaching approach showed that counselors were able to apply feminist counselor responses in counseling sessions with clients and that these clients reported experiencing these responses.