Feminist Therapy

Question 1

Androcentric

Answer 1

Using make orientated contracts to draw conclusions about human, including female, nature.

Question 2

Gendercentric

Answer 2

Proposing two seperate paths of development for men and women.

Question 3

Heterosexist

Answer 3

Viewing heterosexual orientation as normative and desirable an devaluing lesbian, gay male, and bisexual orientations.

Question 4

Intrapsychic orientation

Answer 4

Attributing behaviour to internal causes which often result in blaming the victim and ignoring sociocultural and political factors.

Question 5

Gender-fair approaches

Answer 5

explain differences in the behaviour of women and men in terms of socialisation processes rather than on the basis of our innate natures, this avoiding stereotypes in social roles and interpersonal behaviour.

Question 6

A flexible-multicultural perspective

Answer 6

Uses concepts and strategies that apply equally to individuals and groups regardless of age, race, culture, gender, ability, class, or sexual orientation.

Question 7

Interactionist view

Answer 7

Contains concepts specific to the thinking, feeling, and behaving dimensions of human experience and accounts for contextual and environmental factors.

Question 8

Life-span perspective

Answer 8

Assumes that human development is a lifelong process and that personality and behavioural changes can occur at any time.

Question 9

Relational-cultural theory

Answer 9

Elaborates the vital role that relationships and connectedness play in the lives of women.

Question 10

Egalitarian relationship

Answer 10

keeping in mind that clients are the experts of their own lives. Shifting power away from those who deliver the counselling.

Question 11

Reframing

Answer 11

Includes a shift from blaming the victim to a consideration of social factors in the environment that contribute to a clients problem.

Question 12

Relabelling

Answer 12

Is an intervention that changes the label or evaluation applied to some behavioural characteristic.