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THE POWER EQUITY GUIDE: ATTENDING TO GENDER IN FAMILY THERAPY
Author(s) -
Haddock Shelley A.,
Zimmerman Toni Schindler,
MacPhee David
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2000.tb00286.x
Subject(s) - family therapy , gender equity , equity (law) , power (physics) , psychology , psychotherapist , field (mathematics) , clinical practice , feminism , medical education , engineering ethics , medicine , sociology , nursing , gender studies , political science , law , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics , engineering
In the past two decades, feminist scholars have challenged the field of family therapy to incorporate the organizing principle of gender in its theory, practice, and training. In this paper, we introduce a training, research, and therapeutic tool that provides guidance for addressing or observing gender and power differentials in the practic of family therapy. As a training tool, the Power Equity Guide helps trainees to translate their theoretical understanding of feminist principles into specific behaviors in therapy. Researchers and supervisors can use the Power Equity Guide to evaluate the practice of gender‐informed family therapy. We also provide specific suggestions for its use by trainers, supervisors, therapists, and researchers.