Women & TherapyPub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2022.2097593
Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas, Hector Y. Adames, Jessica G Perez-Chavez
{"title":"Anti-Colonial Futures: Indigenous Latinx Women Healing from the Wounds of Racial-Gendered Colonialism","authors":"Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas, Hector Y. Adames, Jessica G Perez-Chavez","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2022.2097593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2022.2097593","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Indigenous Latina women experience simultaneous forms of oppression, including racism, sexism, and colonialism, which we describe as racial-gendered colonialism. To promote epistemic diversity in responding to racial-gendered colonialism in psychotherapy, we propose three practical clinical guidance grounded in (a) Maya cosmology and (b) the Intersectionality Awakening Model of Womanista Treatment Approach (I AM Womanista) developed by Chavez-Dueñas & Adames. The article provides a path for psychotherapists to integrate the past, present, and future as they accompany Indigenous Latina women in their healing. To accomplish this goal, we present an overview of Indigenous Latina women's collective history, their present 21st-century gendered-racial realities, and ways to support this group in envisioning and working toward anti-colonial futures—that is, a future of liberation that goes beyond racial-gendered colonialism.","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48696592","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 : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2022.2094611
Carrie L. Castañeda-Sound, L. Comas-Díaz
{"title":"Feminist Liberation Practice with Latinx Women: Introduction to the Special Issue","authors":"Carrie L. Castañeda-Sound, L. Comas-Díaz","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2022.2094611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2022.2094611","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This special issue synthesizes the interdisciplinary scholarship and clinical knowledge regarding the application of liberation psychology and feminist approaches with Latinx women. Embracing the approach of decolonization, the authors of this special issue center the intersectionality of Latinxs’ identities and experiences and interrogate neocolonial practices that perpetuate marginalization. The articles address oppressive structural and systemic processes, share innovative frameworks and methods (e.g., testimonios) of feminist liberation practice, and give voice to narratives that have been erased or silenced.","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43248650","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 : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2022.2097590
Pilar Hernández-Wolfe
{"title":"Nepantla Moments in Therapy: A Clinical Example With Latinx Immigrants","authors":"Pilar Hernández-Wolfe","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2022.2097590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2022.2097590","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Therapy can be a site of decolonization in which the traumatic experiences of individuals, couples, families, and communities can be transformed by liberation-based frameworks. In this essay I articulate how key concepts from De Sousa Santos Epistemologies of the South, such as the ecologies of temporality, recognition, and productivity, can be integrated within a Mujerista therapy framework to address trauma and resilience. Through a clinical example of a Latinx mother and daughter, I illustrate nepantla moments and the co-construction of testimonios involving experiential, narrative, and spiritual levels of experience.","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49267957","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 : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2022.2097597
M. polanco
{"title":"Why Am I A Woman? Or, Am I? Decolonizing White Feminism and the Latinx Woman Therapist in Academia","authors":"M. polanco","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2022.2097597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2022.2097597","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract From the perspective of decolonial feminism and the coloniality of gender, in Spanglish, I develop an analysis of the Latinx woman as a racial and gender category of modernity/coloniality. My analysis unfolds through a narrative on my experiences as a Colombian immigrant, Spanglish speaker, and family therapist in academia in the United States. I am guided by an ethic of liberation and the central inquiries for decolonial feminists that contest bourgeois, White, and heterosexual feminism’s universal conception of the woman when exploring its European invention and purpose. I discuss modernity’s imposition of gender as a Eurocentric colonial system of oppression, inseparable from race and class. I provide a conceptual framework for my analysis that includes an overview of ethics of liberation; decolonial linguistic considerations responding to Anglo, White feminism in untranslatable Spanglish; discussion on decolonial and postcolonial analysis of the Latinx category; and key concepts of decolonial feminism and the coloniality of gender. I seek to make visible the operations of colonial power implicated in the Eurocentric, racialized, gendered, and classist configuration of the Latinx and the woman, to detach from it, and to consider other possibilities of existence.","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42883455","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 : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2022.2097596
Carmen Inoa Vazquez
{"title":"The Connectivity Bridge – A Clinical Understanding: Postcolonial Therapy with Latinx Women Living in the United States","authors":"Carmen Inoa Vazquez","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2022.2097596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2022.2097596","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The negative effects brought by intergenerational trauma affecting Latinx women that transmits across generations has not received the appropriate attention that recognizes the cumulative emotional and psychological wounding brought by the experience of migration associated with the legacies of colonialism, political violence, and related stressors. Intergenerational trauma can be recognized and ameliorated with the application of postcolonial psychotherapy modalities that endorse the relevance of cultural representation, identity, and location, with specific reference to migration, gender, race, and ethnicity that focus on promoting liberation and healing. This article will address the interconnections (The Connectivity Bridge) between gender specific cultural values and/or national narratives that perpetuate the colonial thinking of superiority vs inferiority, based on gender and/or ethnicity, and the creation of negative self-identifications evidenced by many Latinx women. A clinical application will briefly illustrate the existing relationship between postcolonialism, ancestry, feminism, and the migration experience that can affect Latinx women living in the United States. Four cultural expectations of gender specific behaviors with ties to colonialism endorsed by Latinxs will be discussed, namely machismo, marianismo, attitudinal familismo or the feeling of support one expects from family, and simpatia, a cultural relational script that also carries gender specific behavioral expectations. An application of a liberation/decolonization healing approach will also illustrate and challenge the assumptions that gender specific expectations of behavior are antiquated and no longer relevant to modern Latinx women with a history of migration, born or residing in the United States who continue being affected by a continuation of the traumatic effects of the previously suffered oppression in the country of origin for many Latinx women and their descendants.","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41318493","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 : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2021.2008520
Kim Roger Abi Zeid Daou, Léa Roger Abi Zeid Daou, Maxime Cousineau-Pérusse
{"title":"The Experiences of Syrian Mothers Who Are Refugees in Canada: An Exploration of Emotion Work and Coping","authors":"Kim Roger Abi Zeid Daou, Léa Roger Abi Zeid Daou, Maxime Cousineau-Pérusse","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2021.2008520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2021.2008520","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48336161","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 : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2021.1978050
A. Ali, S. Wolfert, Ingrid Lam, Patricia Fahmy, Amna Chaudhry, J. Healey
{"title":"Treating the Effects of Military Sexual Trauma through a Theater-Based Program for U.S. Veterans","authors":"A. Ali, S. Wolfert, Ingrid Lam, Patricia Fahmy, Amna Chaudhry, J. Healey","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2021.1978050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2021.1978050","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The goal of this article is to examine the experience and aftermath of military sexual trauma (MST) among U.S. women Veterans with a particular emphasis on the therapeutic benefits of giving voice to their experience in an all-Veteran trauma treatment called the DE-CRUIT program. The DE-CRUIT program uses a feminist framework of human connection in combination with narrative elements from drama and theater. The therapeutic process of this treatment program is described by outlining the specific benefits of its feminist underpinnings and through the use of a case example of an MST survivor who participated in this treatment. We describe the ways that a treatment program can play a role in supporting women Veterans not only in dealing with the effects of MST, but also in connecting to the #MeToo movement.","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49131538","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 : 2021-12-05DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2021.1978051
Deborah L. Pollack
{"title":"Maternal Ambivalence in Session: Helping Mothers Face Mixed Feelings Toward Their Children with Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy","authors":"Deborah L. Pollack","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2021.1978051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2021.1978051","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44934066","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 : 2021-11-22DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2021.1971425
Charlene Y. Senn, P. Barata, M. Eliasziw, K. Hobden, H. Radtke, W. Thurston, I. Newby-Clark
{"title":"Sexual Assault Resistance Education’s Benefits for Survivors of Attempted and Completed Rape","authors":"Charlene Y. Senn, P. Barata, M. Eliasziw, K. Hobden, H. Radtke, W. Thurston, I. Newby-Clark","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2021.1971425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2021.1971425","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The effectiveness of the Enhanced Assess, Acknowledge, Act (EAAA) program in reducing victimization and impacting other outcomes (mediators of program effects) was demonstrated in a randomized controlled trial. A planned analysis showed that program effects on sexual assault were not significantly different for survivors of completed rape and other women. The present article investigated whether the impact of EAAA on incidence of rape and attempted rape and on the mediators of EAAA’s effectiveness (e.g., situational risk detection, direct resistance, self-defense self-efficacy) was strengthened or weakened for women with a history of victimization (i.e., history of rape, attempted rape, or neither). EAAA’s impact on self-blame for women who experienced rape after program participation was also assessed. Data from 851 women who received either EAAA or a control intervention were examined. Regardless of victimization history, participants benefited from EAAA to some degree (28%–85% relative risk reduction). Prior victimization was not a significant moderator of the variables that mediate EAAA’s effectiveness, suggesting EAAA functions similarly for women regardless of victimization history. Finally, women who were raped post-intervention blamed themselves significantly less after taking EAAA than women in the control group. This effect was found both for rape survivors and women with no history of victimization but not for attempted rape survivors. These results contribute to the #MeToo movement(s) by showing the power of feminist resistance education as well as areas where program adaptation or boosters are needed.","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48607099","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 : 2021-10-26DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2021.1982537
Nancy Herrera, Alberta M. Gloria
{"title":"Latina Students’ Post-IPV Healing: A Bodymindspirit Approach Using the ELLA-SANA Model","authors":"Nancy Herrera, Alberta M. Gloria","doi":"10.1080/02703149.2021.1982537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2021.1982537","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46696,"journal":{"name":"Women & Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44787562","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}