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Now You See It, Now You Don't: Feminist Training in Family Therapy
Author(s) -
Goodrich Thelma Jean,
Silverstein Louise Bordeaux
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2005.00059.x
Subject(s) - accreditation , family therapy , training (meteorology) , state (computer science) , medical education , psychology , gender studies , sociology , medicine , political science , psychotherapist , physics , algorithm , meteorology , computer science
This article describes the state of feminist training in family therapy. Methods of assessment include questionnaires to all programs accredited by COAMFTE in universities and institutes and to leading institutes not accredited; interviews with editors of the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy; interviews with many who pioneered the feminist critique in family therapy; inspection of two major national conferences; and a search of publications. Although most program directors describe their programs as feminist and judge their training to be sufficient, their report contrasts with the perspectives of many of the journal editors and pioneers, with the small amount of training in gender issues at national conferences, and with the small number of publications. The authors offer discussion of the findings and recommendations.