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1
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An essential element of Feminist Therapy is an emphasis on ______________ between women and men and how that impacts both men’s and women’s behavior.

A

Power differential.

2
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For feminist therapists, ___________ events ________ occur, and must be interpreted, within an ___________ social context.

A
  • Intrapsychic
  • Always
  • Oppressive
3
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Feminist therapy is built on the premise that “the ________ is __________,” i.e., women’s circumstances always reflect the position of women in society.

A
  • Personal

* Political

4
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Symptoms are considered to be related to the nature of ____________ roles or ________ that are inherent to those roles.

A
  • Traditional feminine

* Conflicts

5
Q

Symptoms are “___________” or a means of exercising personal power.

A

Survival tactics.

6
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Symptoms are ___________ labels that society has assigned to certain behaviors in order to impose __________ or exert social __________.

A
  • Arbitrary
  • Sanctions
  • Control
7
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Feminist therapists are less interested in changing their clients to fit the “mainstream” than in identifying and altering the ______________ forces in society that have affected their clients’ lives.

A

Oppressive.

8
Q

A primary goal of therapy is _____________, or helping women become more self-defining and self-_________.

A
  • Empowerment

* Determining

9
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Feminist therapists strive for an ____________ relationship by making appropriate self-disclosures, demystifying the therapy process, and encouraging clients to set their own goals and evaluate therapy progress.

A

Egalitarian.

10
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Feminist therapists avoid __________ to avoid pathologizing a client’s problems.

A

Labels.

11
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Feminist therapists avoid ___________ women for their current problems, and emphasize their strengths.

A

Blaming.

12
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Feminist therapists believe that to be effective, they must be ________ and political _________.

A
  • Social

* Activists

13
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Non-sexist therapists focus more on __________ factors and modifying personal __________ than feminist therapists.

A
  • Individual

* Behavior

14
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Feminist object relations theorists have focused on the _________ division of _________ and the ________-_________ relationship as contributing to gendered behaviors.

A
  • Sexual
  • Labor
  • Mother-child
15
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Self-in-relation theory extends traditional object relations theory by proposing that many gender differences can be traced to differences in the ___________ and ___________ relationship.

A
  • Mother-daughter

* Mother-son

16
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Men are taught to _________ from the mother, while females are taught to remain _______ to their mothers. As a result, females define themselves in _________ and males define themselves in ____________.

A
  • Separate
  • Attached
  • Relation
  • Separation

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