GSG Chapter 3

Question 1

Gender sensitive family therapy

Answer 1

Tried to overcome confining sex role stereotyping by therapists in clinical interventions
Help client move on from gender confinement and exercise choice

Question 2

Acculturation

Answer 2

Occurs over multiple generations as families confront changes in new dominant culture

Question 3

Hernandez Siegel & Almeida’s cultural context model for working with families of different backgrounds

Answer 3

To facilitate change:

• develop critical consciousness
• deepen sense of empowerment
• develop accountability

Question 4

3 areas that family therapist must distinguish between when assessing family functioning

Answer 4

Family patterns that are

• universal
• culture specific
• idiosyncratic (unique to fam)

Question 5

Women’s project in family therapy

Answer 5

1977 (cont for almost 30yrs)
Examined:
- gender patterns in family
- patriarchal assumptions underlying classic family therapy

Question 6

Underorganized families

Answer 6

Term developed by Aponte in ‘87

• rather than disorganized
• family is forced to accept dependence on community’s network of social institutions