Feminist and Multicultural Therapies (Week 11) Flashcards
Who were key members of the Feminist movement in Counseling?
Carol Gilligan
Jean Baker Miller
Who were key members of the Multicultural movement in Counseling?
Stanley Sue
Beverly Greene
Lillian Comas-Diaz
What is the key focus of Feminist and Multicultural Movements in counseling?
Zooming out beyond family to larger social and cultural dynamics.
What do Feminist and Multicultural therapists believe create, influence, and maintain problems?
Social and cultural structures are forces that afford power and privilege to those who represent the preferred/dominant group while oppressing others who represent the minority/marginalized group.
What do Feminist and Multicultural therapists believe problems reflect?
The difficulty and distress of trying to adapt, adjust, and cope with oppressive systems.
How do Feminist and Multicultural therapists view human nature?
An individual’s development is significantly influenced by environmental stressors, including oppression and marginalization.
What are the levels of Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory (working from core to surface)
Individual
Microsystem (family, peers, school, workplace, and church)
Mesosystem (interactions among Microsystems; technology)
Exosystem (Social services, neighbors, local politics, mass media, industry at local/regional/national levels)
Macrosystem (attitudes and ideologies of the culture)
Chronosystem (dimension of time)
What is Hays’ ADDRESSING framework?
Age & Generation
Developmental Disability
Disabilities acquired later in life
Religion and Spiritual Orientation
Ethnicity and Race
Socioeconomic Status
Sexual Orientation
Indigenous Heritage
National Origin and Language
Gender
What is D’Andrea & Daniels’ RESPECTFUL framework?
Religion and Spiritual Identity
Economic Class Background
Sexual Identity
Psychological Maturity
Ethnic/Racial Identity
Chronological/Developmental Challenges
Trauma and Threats to Wellbeing
Family background and history
Unique Physical Characteristics
Location of residence and language differences
What is socialization?
The process beginning during childhood by which individuals acquire the values, habits, and attitudes of a society.
Characteristics, values, beliefs, behaviors, appearances, etc. that reflect the dominant group are deemed as more acceptable/preferable than those of a marginalized group.
These cultural “conditions of acceptance/worth” result in overt and covert judgment being placed on those who do not meet these conditions.
What is internalized oppression?
When a person devalues and detests aspects of themselves that do not measure up to society’s expectations and values.
What is power in Feminist and Multicultural therapy terms?
Access to resources and to those who can effect change to meet needs; ability to influence self & others, define reality for self.
What is privilege in Feminist and Multicultural therapy terms?
Unearned benefits granted to individuals of mainstream or dominant culture groups at the expense of others.
What is oppression in Feminist and Multicultural therapy terms?
Systematic targeting or marginalization of one social group by a more powerful social group for the social, economic, and political benefit of the more powerful social group.
What is microaggression in Feminist and Multicultural therapy terms?
The everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership.
