Women & TherapyPub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2023.2275935
T. Bryant-Davis
{"title":"Healing the Trauma of Racism and Sexism: Decolonization and Liberation","authors":"T. Bryant-Davis","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2023.2275935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2023.2275935","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Gendered racism is a source of stress and, in some cases, traumatic stress for women and girls of color as well as gender expansive people of color. Gendered racism is a form of oppression rooted in both White Supremacy and patriarchy. Along with interpersonal and internalized forms of gendered racism, mental health professionals must attend to systemic forms of gendered racism that manifest in every social system from education to criminal (in)justice. The consequences for women and girls of Color, as well as non-binary persons are multi-layered, including but not limited to physical, psychological, financial, and political. Frameworks that attend to both the context of oppression and the wisdom of women of Color are necessary for individual healing and societal transformation; these frameworks include but are not limited to liberation psychology, womanist psychology, and mujerista psychology. Examples of indigenizing individual, group, and community level programs are provided as well as implications for necessary future directions for advancing anti-oppression interventions, honoring indigenous science, dismantling gendered racism, and birthing liberation for all people. Finally, the author acknowledges racial battle fatigue and patriarchy battle fatigue as well as the necessary care for mental health professionals who are engaged in this sacred work.","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139363938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women & TherapyPub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2023.2226016
Jennifer M. Staples
{"title":"Exposure Therapy with a First-Generation, Latino Transgender Man: A Dialectical Behavior and Feminist Therapy Framework","authors":"Jennifer M. Staples","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2023.2226016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2023.2226016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Transgender and Gender Expansive (TGE) individuals with multiple marginalized identities are at increased risk of minority stress and trauma because of intersecting systems of oppression, such as transphobia and racism. There is limited evidence-based guidance for TGE individuals experiencing trauma, especially TGE individuals of color. This case study describes the implementation of Prolonged Exposure and informal emotion exposure with a first-generation Latino transgender man using a Feminist Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy lens. Seven clinical considerations drawing from the integration of these approaches are discussed, including recognition of the sociocultural context in shaping the client’s behaviors, balancing flexibility and accountability, and balancing exposure with validation of avoidance.","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44005646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women & TherapyPub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2023.2229684
J. Dickenson, Elliot A. Tebbe, Ghazel Tellawi
{"title":"A Sexual Wellbeing Framework to Address Sexuality in Therapy with Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender Expansive Clients","authors":"J. Dickenson, Elliot A. Tebbe, Ghazel Tellawi","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2023.2229684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2023.2229684","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Although most clinicians believe that discussing sexuality is important clinically, most clinicians do not initiate these discussions. Further, for therapists working with transgender, nonbinary, and gender expansive (TNBGE) clients, discussing sexuality may feel challenging when therapists fear inadvertently stigmatizing or mischaracterizing their clients and their concerns. We propose a sexual wellbeing framework as an adjunctive to traditional feminist therapy, in which discussions about sexuality is comfortable and appropriate to the goals of therapy. We review existing evidence that suggests sexual wellbeing of TNBGE clients may be enhanced by (a) attending to the client’s larger sociocultural context in which sexual wellbeing emerges, (b) understanding that sexual wellbeing is multiply determined, the contributing factors to sexual wellbeing are unique for each person, and sexual wellbeing changes over time and across situations, (c) challenging assumptions that genitals, hormones, and sexual functioning are the most important aspects of sexual wellbeing, (d) emphasizing sexual comfort and pleasure by enhancing immersive attention and facilitating gender affirming sexual experiences, and (e) conceptualizing consent as a means to ensure safe and pleasurable experiences. We conclude by offering clinical scenarios that present practical considerations when applying the sexual wellbeing framework to illustrate the ways in which conversations with TNBGE clients about sexuality can enhance sexual wellbeing.","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43907205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women & TherapyPub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2023.2226012
Samantha LaMartine, N. Nakamura, James J. García
{"title":"“Even the Officers Are in on It:” Black Transgender Women’s Experiences of Violence and Victimization in Los Angeles","authors":"Samantha LaMartine, N. Nakamura, James J. García","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2023.2226012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2023.2226012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Black Transgender women (BTW) are subjected to race and gender-based societal oppression, which makes them vulnerable to experience violence. The purpose of this study was to examine experiences of violence among BTW by centering their narratives. Ten participants from Los Angeles County were interviewed, and data were analyzed using Consensual Qualitative Research, which yielded four domains; however, the current article focused only on the first domain, Types of Violence, and its six themes: (a) Transgender-specific microaggressions, (b) verbal harassment, (c) intimate partner violence, (d) physical violence, (e) sexual violence, and (f) incarceration. Recommendations for Transgender specific trauma-informed interventions and future directions to promote BTW healing are provided.","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47610894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women & TherapyPub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2023.2226018
Olivia L. Scott, V. Leon, V. Blakely
{"title":"Empowering TNBGE and QTBIPOC Students through Clinical Group Practice in University Settings","authors":"Olivia L. Scott, V. Leon, V. Blakely","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2023.2226018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2023.2226018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Increasing visibility of transgender, nonbinary, and gender expansive (TNBGE) people in the United States and in higher education has coincided with a call for more affirming and appropriate mental health services. Group therapy has been connected to positive outcomes for college students, but appears less available to or less popular among TNBGE students. This article will summarize the history of feminist, queer, and trans theories, feminist group therapy, and therapeutic groups for TNBGE people. Recommendations for facilitating TNBGE groups will be presented, drawing from the work of three queer university counseling clinicians with collective experience in facilitating LGBTQ + and exclusively TNBGE groups using queer, trans, and multicultural feminist theories. Considerations for facilitating LGBTQ + groups for Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) will also be included, based on relevant literature and clinical experience. Limitations of the authors’ perspectives and recommendations will be outlined, as well as future directions for research and practice.","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46794760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women & TherapyPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2023.2189777
Sarah E. Conlin, Richard P. Douglass
{"title":"Feminist Therapy with Gender Questioning Adolescents: Clinical Case Example","authors":"Sarah E. Conlin, Richard P. Douglass","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2023.2189777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2023.2189777","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This clinical case example illustrates the benefits of a feminist approach to therapy in addressing the unique experiences of gender questioning adolescents. We will illustrate the successful use of feminist therapy in our work with a biracial, bisexual, adolescent client who reported questioning his gender expression and gender identity. The client used he/him/his pronouns at the time of our work together; we also regularly checked in with our client about pronouns throughout our sessions. The authors conducted co-therapy with this client, working as a treatment team. Feminist therapy offers an affirmative, intersectional, and strengths-based approach to work with gender diverse clients. Feminist therapy is particularly well-suited to this work because it explicitly connects the personal with the socio-political.","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45434538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women & TherapyPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2023.2189776
E. McConnell, Reese Minshew
{"title":"Feminist Therapy at The Intersection of Gender Diversity and Neurodiversity","authors":"E. McConnell, Reese Minshew","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2023.2189776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2023.2189776","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract There has been growing awareness of the overlap between transgender, nonbinary, and gender expansive (TNBGE) and neurodivergent identities in recent years. However, many clinicians do not receive adequate training around either gender diversity or neurodiversity, much less their intersection. Further, the ubiquity of the pathology paradigm contributes to practices that further marginalize TNBGE autistic clients. We illustrate how feminist therapy’s four realms of power provides a valuable framework for empowering clinical work with autistic TNBGE clients, with an aim toward centering the experiences of TNBGE autistic people. We also provide recommendations for clinical practice and systems-level change.","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42439420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women & TherapyPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2023.2190230
Hannah K. Heitz, B. Rappaport
{"title":"Feminist Therapy: Supervision as a Pathway Toward Equitable, Affirming Care for Nonbinary Clients","authors":"Hannah K. Heitz, B. Rappaport","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2023.2190230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2023.2190230","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Given best practices for serving nonbinary clients, how can supervisors and supervisees collaborate to provide equitable, affirming services? Building on the importance of affirming practice in working with nonbinary clients, it is fruitful to explore how a collaborative-affirmative approach in feminist supervision can foster a supportive, affirming therapist-client relationship. Using analytic autoethnography, supervisor and supervisee will articulate what it means to work through a feminist lens with nonbinary clients. Their reflexive collaborative narrative will discuss the importance of examining their own social identities in supervision while highlighting the value of a collaborative-affirmative approach to supervision for a developing clinician working with nonbinary clients.","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44512259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women & TherapyPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2023.2189775
Jessica A. Joseph, Jessica R. Chavez
{"title":"Binding and Queer Embodiments: Rethinking the Moral Imperative of Body Positivity","authors":"Jessica A. Joseph, Jessica R. Chavez","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2023.2189775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2023.2189775","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper explores existing feminist body positive frameworks and queer theories of embodiment while asking troubling questions about bodies between and outside of binary, cisgender frameworks. We consider how feminist psychotherapy offers some possibilities and occludes others when applied to the desire to redistribute or shrink chest tissue. Using psychoanalytic theory, we aim to uplift alternative (and, at times, uncomfortable) clinical considerations to better understand the relationship between our patients and their bodies. To guide feminist therapists, we propose a framework of mourning and materialization. Specifically, we suggest that therapists practice reflexivity and collaborate with their patients to determine what aspects of the ideal body to mourn and what aspects can be materialized through surgery or other forms of bodily change.","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46686455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Women & TherapyPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2023.2189774
Jan E. Estrellado, Kimberly F Balsam
{"title":"Introduction to the Special Issue on Feminist Therapy with Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender Expansive People","authors":"Jan E. Estrellado, Kimberly F Balsam","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2023.2189774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2023.2189774","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Transgender, nonbinary, and gender expansive (TNBGE) people have been historically excluded from feminist approaches broadly, including in the realm of therapy. This special issue examines the utility of feminist therapy with TNBGE people, along with its potential and limitations. Contributors focus on specific issues affecting TNBGE people, such as migration and citizenship status, sexual well-being, trauma and violence, neurodiversity, and developmental context. Feminist approaches are explored using intersectional and strengths-based lenses in a diversity of clinical settings and across various aspects of the therapeutic process with TNBGE people.","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42727384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}