Week 9: Ethics & Compassion Fatigue

Question 1

What is feminism?

Answer 1

A way of analysing and approaching women’s and other marginalised groups’ status in society, economics, and politics, situated within experiences of oppression within patriarchy

Question 2

What are some examples of feminist values and principles? (4)

Answer 2

-The personal is political; linking private experiences with public issues
-Awareness and critical thinking
-Reconceptualising and balancing power
-Looking for effective ways to make change and end violence

Question 3

What are some characteristics of feminist counselling? (6)

Answer 3

-Power sharing
-Process is valued equally to outcomes
-Informed consent and demystifying the counselling process
-“De-experting” and seeing the client as the expert in their life
-Focus on strengths, resiliency, and validation
-Encouraging self-expression through art, storytelling, and rituals

Question 4

What are the 5 main feminist counselling techniques?

Answer 4

1. Validation
2. Normalisation
3. Depathologization
4. Reframing
5. Self-disclosure

Question 5

What is consciousness raising?

Answer 5

Assisting services users to see how social structures may create and perpetuate inequality, oppression, and personal problems

Question 6

What is collectivization?

Answer 6

Uniting service users with others to connect and develop alternative systems for social change

Question 7

What is Narrative Therapy?

Answer 7

-A form of counselling that views people as separate from their problems.
-Problems are externalised, reframed as protective moreso than harmful, and rewritten to allow for the kind of future the client wants
-Goal is to elicit more detailed descriptions and a fuller context of the client’s situation, rather than to diagnose or teach the client