Feminist Counseling Research Articles

Feminist counseling as an effective approach to dealing with sexual and physical violence in the family.

Feminist counseling as an effective approach to dealing with sexual and physical violence in the family.

Feminist Therapy Approach as an Effort to Prevent Child Marriage at the Family Learning Center (PUSPAGA) Bantul Regency

Child marriage remains a challenging issue in Indonesia to this day. Childhood should be a critical period for physical, emotional and social growth before they enter adulthood. To prevent the occurrence of these cases, especially child marriage, various institutions in Indonesia provide counseling facilities or become a place to consult about family problems. One of these institutions is the Family Learning Center (PUSPAGA) which is under the auspices of the Office of Women's Empowerment, Child Protection and Family Planning (DP3AKB).This study aims to analyze the use of feminist therapy as an effort to prevent child marriage in the community of Bantul Regency, which has experienced a fairly high increase every year. This research method is qualitative with data collection through interviews. The results and discussion of this research are analyzed by the researcher and presented as follows:1. Based on the understanding of the concept of gender by the counselor, Gender is considered as a social formation that regulates the roles and interactions between men and women through the socialization process, establishing roles, rights, obligations, and responsibilities in the context of production and reproduction. 2. Feminist Therapy in Child Marriage Prevention, Counselors who have a gender orientation and use a counseling approach create feminist counseling, an approach that emphasizes the importance of equality and efforts to achieve it.

An Action Study of Feminist Group Counseling on the Self-Identity of Children Who Self-Injured

<p>本研究旨在以女性主義取向團體輔導方案的介入，探討具有自傷行為兒童在團體歷程中的自我認同發展。本研究採取行動研究，招募五名國小六年級學童為研究對象（四女一男），進行每週一次，一次四十分鐘，為期八次的小團體輔導。團體設計以女性主義諮商理論為本，涵蓋身份覺察、賦能、敘說、平權等重要議題。透過省思札記、成員及師長的訪談記錄、觀察員的觀察與回饋等多種方式蒐集資料，結合三角驗證方式分析，以瞭解具有自傷行為兒童在女性主義團體輔導歷程之經驗內涵。重要結果如下：一、女性主義取向強調團體敘說、平權關係與支持關懷，促使學童有機會自我揭露生命故事，從而連結彼此。二、女性主義團體輔導方案的介入，有助於學童對社會角色的覺察，轉化以正向觀點定義自己，增進改變的行動力。三、學童在團體的普同經驗，促使學童降低孤獨感，進而坦然面對自傷與真實自我。四、學童覺察與肯定其優勢能力，提升我能感，促使增進自信心與自我認同。五、在團體歷程中的行動與改變，促進學童對自我的賦權，進而提升自我認同與悅納，進而將改變實踐於日常生活。</p> <p> </p><p>This study explored the self-identity development of children with non-suicidal self-injury behavior through a feminist-oriented group counseling program intervention. This study adopted an action research approach and included five participants from the sixth grade: four females and one male. The group met once a week for 40 minutes each time, for eight weeks. The group project involved doctrines of feminist counseling theory, including awareness, empowerment, narrative, and equality. Data were collected through the researcher’s reflections, observer’s notes, and interviews with the participants and with the participants’ teachers and parents. The researcher analyzed data and verified the analysis by using the triangulation method. This study’s findings are summarized as follows: 1. The narratives, equality, and supportive care that the feminist group counseling approach emphasizes provided the self-harm student participants the opportunities to tell and re-tell their life stories; disclosing their stories helped them connect to the other participants. 2. The group counseling intervention helped students aware of their social roles, transform their thoughts into a positive perspective, and enhance their capacities to change. 3. The common experience that the students shared during the group process helped reduce their loneliness, rethink their self-harm behaviors, and face their true selves openly. 4. Through the group process, students gained more awareness and confidence regarding their strengths in abilities, enhanced their sense of power, and fostered a strong sense of self-identity. 5. The action and change during the group process facilitated the students’ self-empowerment, enriched their self-identity and self-acceptance, and finally, helped them implement changes in everyday life.</p> <p> </p>

Feminist Approaches in Counselling Psychology: Empowering Women's Mental Health

This paper explores the application of feminist approaches in counselling psychology to empower women's mental health. It highlights the importance of considering gendered experiences, power dynamics, and societal influences on women's well-being. By examining the existing literature, this article identifies the key principles and interventions of feminist counselling psychology and their impact on women's empowerment. The paper concludes with recommendations for integrating feminist perspectives into counselling practices to promote positive mental health outcomes for women.

Sisterhood at a Distance: Doing Feminist Support Work Online

The aim of this study is to analyze the characteristics of feminist peer support in the context of online chat counseling. Based on 15 interviews with female lay supporters associated with a branch of the Swedish women's shelter movement targeting young women, we explore how the digital setting—characterized by distance and anonymity—affects the meaning and doing of feminist support. Our results show that core principles of feminist support—striving for equality and trust, the crafting of safe spaces, and sharing experiences—are all renegotiated and/or accentuated by the digital setting. The chat is experienced as enabling a more equal relationship and a high level of safety. The meaning of safety has largely shifted, however, from being associated with a feminist community to safety associated with solitude and distance. We further show a tension in the respondents’ understanding of shared experiences, stressing both the importance of situated knowledges and the value of not knowing who is seeking or offering support. By combining research and material on feminist support and online youth counseling, the article offers novel perspectives on feminist counseling and social work, the power dimensions of online counseling, and the virtual space as an arena for feminist activism.

Konseling Feminis Untuk Pemulihan Korban Kekerasan seksual

Data on sexual violence has increased. Specifically, sexual violence against women in the school setting. This paper discusses the provision of responsive service assistance that can be carried out by school counselors in schools for the recovery of victims of sexual violence with a feminist counseling approach. Feminist counseling for victims of sexual violence is used to help victims become androgynous, creative, productive, active, and independent, and to build a self-image of women who are able to optimally actualize their potential.

Trauma Healing on Domestic Violence: The Effectiveness of Islamic Feminist Counseling

This research is motivated by the rise of violence cases experienced by women. Domestic violence against women is very vulnerable due to the urge present in the perpetrators to behave aggressively because of the stressors they are facing and the widespread belief in a patriarchal culture, which is the root cause of violence between husband and wife. In this case, Islamic feminist counseling seeks to recover and reduce depression in women victims of violence by building awareness of their gender roles based on an Islamic perspective. Therefore, this research aims to discover how Islamic feminist counseling can heal the trauma of women victims of domestic violence. This research was conducted through a qualitative approach. The data collection techniques used were document study, observation, and in-depth interviews, with two counselees (using pseudonyms in this article) in domestic violence cases. The data validity technique employed in this study was a triangulation of data collection techniques and data sources, while data analysis was performed deductively and inductively. The results revealed that the counselor carried out three stages of Islamic feminist counseling: conceptualization, intervention, and termination. At all stages, the counselor has achieved each stage’s goals, although with different techniques for the two counselees at each counseling stage.

Feminist counselling practice in Australia: Who, where & how?

Research examining feminist counselling in Australia is exceedingly limited, even though feminism has a central place in the development and delivery of sexual assault services and domestic violence intervention. This study aimed to offer a contemporary understanding of how feminist counselling is being practiced in Australia. A convergent mixed methods design was applied between June–August 2020 with mental health practitioners Australia-wide, whereby the FTB-R scale was utilised through an online survey (n = 62) and semi-structured in-depth interviews (n = 8) were conducted. Survey results indicate that whilst feminist counselling is still being practiced predominantly by women and for women, an intersectional framework is being applied with broader populations. Emergent themes of practice include advocacy and education, attending to power and client-centred practice. Results highlight the need for a model of feminist counselling in Australia to ensure its practice can continue within a system that seeks to suppress its efficacy.

Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology: Sharon G. Horne.

This award is given to individuals who have made sustained and enduring contributions to international cooperation and the advancement of knowledge in psychology. The 2020 recipient of the APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology was selected by the Board of Directors, as recommended by the Committee on International Relations in Psychology (CIRP). Sharon G. Horne is a respected leader in advancing a liberatory international psychology through integration of cross-cultural, social justice, and transnational feminist counseling psychology in her teaching and scholarship. Partnering with colleagues in Russia, Kyrgystan, Colombia, South Africa, the Philippines, and other countries, Dr. Horne has investigated critical social issues, including violence against women, LGBTQ justice and mental health, and culture-centered training in counseling psychology. She leads the profession in the decolonization of international psychological research, especially by amplifying the voices and wisdom of colleagues outside the United States and in preparing the next generation for this important transnational feminist work. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

Defining Mental Health Practitioners’ LGBTIQ Cultural Competence in Thailand

This study investigated what competencies are crucial for mental health practitioners’ culturally competent practice with LGBTIQ clients in Thailand. The study used two-round Delphi methodology to aggregate views of mental health practitioners with expertise on LGBTIQ issues (n = 14), and of LGBTIQ individuals who had used mental health services (n = 13). Participants proposed competencies in Round 1 through interviews or an online questionnaire, and rated these competencies’ importance in another online questionnaire in Round 2. Forty-one knowledge competencies, 35 awareness/attitude/belief competencies, 14 skill competencies and 35 action competencies were rated. Among key themes were understanding gender/sexual diversity as well as issues affecting LGBTIQ people and their families, and being able to assist on these issues; accepting gender/sexual diversity, respecting clients’ self-determination, and communicating this to clients; being aware of the impact of one’s beliefs, attitudes, identities and values; recognizing and rejecting stereotypes; being open, humble, and willing to learn more; knowing how to use feminist counseling techniques and other specific techniques; refraining from offending actions; social justice action; and obtaining information sensitively. Developing these competencies is likely to improve mental health services’ appropriateness for LGBTIQ clients and should be included in mental health practitioners’ training in Thailand.

Η φεμινιστική πολυπολιτισμική προσέγγιση της συμβουλευτικής ψυχολογίας

The feminist multicultural model has emerged from the feminist counselling approach. The feminist approach in counselling psychology, which was developed especially during the 1960’s and 1970’s, focused on individual solutions to human problems and did not place a great emphasis on other multicultural factors in therapy. By acknowledgingthe influence of multiculturalism on people’s mental health, counselling psychology started to gradually pay more attention to the relationship between individuals and their environment and considered the culturalenvironment as a major influencing factor in the shaping of identity but also in the nature of problems faced. At the beginning, this multicultural dimension was included very often unevenly in the feminist therapy.Recently, we see an effort to integrate these two mainstreams towards the development of an integrated feminist multicultural therapeutic approach. This approach is based on the realization that, although intraditional therapies the emphasis has been intrapsychic and the main assumption was that man is responsible for his condition, more recent developments in the field of therapy acknowledge that peopledo not always have the same opportunities and cannot always be totally responsible for the adversities they face because any kind of oppression often reduces their power and limits their access to choices. This articlepresents the development of the model, the theoretical mainstreams, the principles and trends that reinforce this development and its impact on the therapeutic approach

Feminist psychology: A narrative perspective in coaching

Whilst there is an abundance of published literature on the area of Feminist Counselling Psychology, the same cannot be said when refereeing to Feminist Psychology applied to Coaching. To be used as an effective tool for change and transpersonal realm embodying the search for meaning, coaching cannot skip the gender question. The narrative perspective may provide answers on Gender Psychology applied to the field of Coaching Psychology. The construction of the self within a patriarchal society is fundamentally different both for men and women because of the process of gender socialisation. Such gender socialisation may have profound implications on every area of women’s development: from dreams to career aspirations, sense of value and belief in the narration of the self. Learning theorists provide us with an explanation on how the stories we consume become the stories we become. This review will explore the need for a feminist form of Coaching Psychology to wholly connect with the problematic nature attributed to gender and better understand client’s stories and implement more effective interventions with narrative coaching.

KEKERASAN DALAM RUMAH TANGGA (ANALISIS FAKTA SOSIAL BERBASIS KONSELING FEMINIS TERHADAP KETIMPANGAN GENDER)

Domestic violence (KDRT) is the most common violence of women in Indonesia. This occurs because of gender imbalances that differentiate women's and men's roles and rights in the community that places women in a lower status than men. The privilege of men as if they make women the property of men who are entitled to be treated arbitrarily, including by violence. The counseling theory approach that is considered relevant to domestic violence cases is feminist counseling. Concepts built in feminist theory use a system perspective, meaning that the process of counseling intervention is not only to individuals but the individual environment is given the treatment to ensure the solution of the root of the problem. The ability of counselors to empower individuals/communities within the victim's environment is a skill that must be sharpened by counselors who use feminist counseling. This theory is based on the principles of the personal is political, egalitarian relationship and the valuing perspective. The three concepts that become pillars of feminist counseling become an essential indicator in determining the ability of counselor in assisting women victims of domestic violence.

A Philosophical Analysis of ‘the Sameness’, ‘Differences’, and ‘Discrimination’ in Feminist Counseling

A Philosophical Analysis of ‘the Sameness’, ‘Differences’, and ‘Discrimination’ in Feminist Counseling

Dis-Illusioning Psychology: Epistemology and the Contextual Psychology of Ellyn Kaschak

ABSTRACTEllyn Kaschak is a pioneer feminist therapist whose contributions to feminist theory, practice, education, and advocacy have spanned the globe over the past 40 + years. From being a founder of one of the first feminist counseling services in the country in the early 1970s, Kaschak has influenced decades of feminist, family and multi-cultural therapists through her teaching and countless others through her feminist epistemology and theory development and the Mattering Map. This article describes Kaschak’s life and work and the lasting contributions she has made to the field of feminist psychology.

Defining Domestic Violence and Women's Autonomy in Law

This paper explores the complex relationship between Indian feminism and the law and legal systems, as reflected in the recent (2015) Bombay High Court judgment on domestic violence. It is divided into two sections. The first section looks at feminist interventions in marital disputes and domestic violence through grassroots efforts, and outlines the multidimensional and hybrid feminist understandings of domestic violence, discusses change strategies and ethical principles that underpinned their action, and addresses the enactment of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (PWDVA) as one such strategy against domestic violence. This section also focuses on feminist dilemmas and foregrounds the issue of women’s autonomy in situations of domestic violence. The mainstreaming of feminist legal interventions through the PWDVA has brought new challenges for feminists and the second section discusses this issue by focusing on judicial intervention in deciding the boundary of counselling and mediation practices by protection officers under the PWDVA. We suggest that as seen in the 2015 judgement, while the judiciary has upheld some aspects of feminist practice and disallowed reconciliation in situations of serious physical domestic violence, its over-emphasis on equating physical violence with domestic violence and its protectionist stance has limited women’s autonomy and gone against feminist counselling principles and politics undergirding feminist interventions in situations of domestic violence. We suggest that this judgment can be read as a dialogue within a section of feminist groups in India who endorse feminist political ideals of liberty, individual rights, and equality and seek to institutionalize these within the law. This paper is an analytical and interpretive piece and not an empirical inquiry into legal practice or a survey of case law developments of the PWDVA. It focuses on normative questions of theoretical and policy relevance arising from feminist engagements with law.

A Study on the Correlation between Chuang-tzu’s ‘Sungshim’ Transcendence and the Principles of Feminist Counseling

A Study on the Correlation between Chuang-tzu’s ‘Sungshim’ Transcendence and the Principles of Feminist Counseling

Feminist counselling and domestic violence in India

Feminist counselling and domestic violence in India

John Rowan: A Personal Tribute

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsJocelyn ChaplinJocelyn Chaplin is a Feminist Psychotherapist in Private Practice in London, UK. She was co-founder in 1998 with John Rowan of the Serpent Institute, for training Psychotherapists and Counsellors, within a radical political and spiritual framework. It was both Humanistic and Psychodynamic. She has published widely from Feminist Counselling in Action (Sage, 1998) to Deep Equality (O-books, 2008). Jocelyn is also an Artist, Pagan Priestess and an Anarchist. Her blog is at http://jocelynchaplin.wordpress.com

Feminist and Multicultural Counseling Psychology: A Blueprint for Cooperation

Feminist and Multicultural Counseling Psychology: A Blueprint for Cooperation