Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/08952833.2023.2200991
Nisan Ilkmen
ABSTRACT Dr. Andrea Wittenborn is a feminist-informed scholar and clinician who has made significant contributions to the field of Couple and Family Therapy. This interview explored her journey as a scholar, clinician, and leader.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08952833.2022.2136829
K. Bower, C. McGeorge, Maria Bermudez
ABSTRACT The concept of religion can be a complex topic for therapists to address with their clients, as the relationship between individuals and their faith is contextualized by both personal and societal beliefs and values. Those who identify with a marginalized gender identity and/or sexual orientation experienced further complexities resulting from family systems and social expectations that shape the meaning and purpose of religion, faith, and spirituality. Although previous research has addressed the complexity of religion within this demographic, few have explored how religiosity shifts over a lifetime. To address gaps in the literature, we analyzed life-story narratives from 13 White, gay, lesbian, and transgender older adults (i.e., over the age of 45). We developed a conceptual map depicting potential pathways of religious and spiritual involvement, spanning childhood to older adulthood. We conclude with clinical considerations for therapists that underscore the importance of including sociohistorical contexts that influence personal meaning regarding religion, faith, and spirituality within the therapy process with older adults who hold marginalized sexual orientations and gender identities.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-14DOI: 10.1080/08952833.2022.2144895
C. McGeorge, Katelyn O. Coburn, Ashley A. Walsdorf
ABSTRACT This study explored the steps or actions that therapists would like to see professional mental health associations take concerning gender identity change efforts (GICE) and sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE; also referred to as conversion therapy). Data were collected from 177 therapists utilizing an open-ended question from an online survey. A queer theory informed thematic analysis of the data revealed four themes tied to actions that professional mental health organizations can engage in, ranging from (a) acknowledging the unethicality of GICE and SOCE, (b) intervening to cease the current practice of GICE and SOCE, (c) preventing GICE and SOCE from being practiced in the future, and (d) engaging in transformation efforts to create change at systemic levels (e.g., policy, laws, organizations) to affirm lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-11DOI: 10.1080/08952833.2022.2143620
Rebecca Lucero Jones
ABSTRACT Employment practices in America demonstrate one area in which gender theory provides a framework for understanding women’s economic behaviors and their families’ responses to their employment status. Religion has often functioned as a determinant of gender roles and employment practices. The present study explored the intersection of gender, religion, and female employment by focusing on a population with high levels of religiosity, women who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), also known as Mormons. While highly educated, LDS women are less likely to work due to religiously prescribed gender roles. This study specifically examined how LDS women navigate familial conflict concerning their paid work. An online survey solicited detailed responses from 215 LDS women. The author used a grounded theory methodology to analyze the data and develop a model for understanding how LDS women and their families navigate conflict concerning a woman’s paid work. The resulting theory describes the influence of religion on decision-making processes and management of conflict regarding women’s paid work. Most importantly, the study reveals the powerful role of religion in determining beliefs about gender roles and its influence on women’s fight for equality within faith communities and within families.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-06DOI: 10.1080/08952833.2022.2141986
C. Maier, A. Prouty, Yudum Söylemez
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the way feminist clinical supervisors provide supervision to family therapist trainees. This study explored the experiences of feminist family therapy supervisors who engaged in supervision remotely or had transitioned to virtual supervision. Using thematic analysis, four themes emerged from analysis of eight supervisors’ answers to an online survey: using technology as a collaborative medium, self-of-the-supervisor process, intentional supervisory relationship, and supervisor responsibilities. In telling their stories, the supervisors described how they pivoted to support therapists, attended to parallel processes, and adjusted their own supervision techniques to maintain their feminist focus. The authors discuss implications of supervision adjustments and offer suggestions and considerations for remote feminist supervision and recommendations for future research.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-25DOI: 10.1080/08952833.2022.2139926
K. Killian
ABSTRACT The representation of superheroines in comic books and comic book movies tend to subscribe to the patriarchal logic of the male gaze, with male subjects looking at women as hypersexualized objects and corporeal spectacles. Black Widow is the most fiercely feminist offering in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to date, featuring young women resisting a powerful, rich, old, white male villain and fighting against his evil design to control the world. There are multiple refreshing developments in this “Phase Four” film from Marvel Studios. Drawing on feminist textual readings of superheroines’ depictions in comics and cinema, this article (1) engages a shift away from the male gaze and its impact on the representation of strong female characters without the trappings of hypersexualization, and (2) suggests what films like Black Widow can offer regarding notions of what relationships constitute “family” in our society.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/08952833.2022.2136833
Ashton West Veasey
ABSTRACT In 2001, Dr. Joan C. Williams’ interview was published in the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy. Twenty years later she proves that feminism is intersectional, relational, and continually evolving in this updated check-in. Ashton West Veasey, a licensed therapist and doctoral student at Texas Woman’s University, follows up with Dr. Williams to explore how feminism has changed within the sociopolitical context of American politics and the COVID-19 pandemic.
2001年，Joan C. Williams博士的访谈发表在《女性主义家庭治疗杂志》上。二十年后，她证明了女权主义是交叉的，关系的，并且在这个更新的登记中不断发展。持牌治疗师、德克萨斯女子大学博士生阿什顿·韦斯特·维西(Ashton West Veasey)随后与威廉姆斯博士一起探讨了女权主义在美国政治和COVID-19大流行的社会政治背景下是如何变化的。
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/08952833.2022.2142450
M. Daneshpour, Sima Hassandokht Firooz
Power is the ability to take one’s place in whatever discourse is essential to action, and the right to have one’s part matter.
权力是指在任何对行动至关重要的话语中占据自己位置的能力，以及拥有自己部分事务的权利。
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/08952833.2022.2142410
C. McGeorge, Katelyn O. Coburn
ABSTRACT When a loved one comes out as lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB), families often seek the assistance of a trusted professional. For many families that involves seeking the consultation of a religious leader. This queer theory informed qualitative study sought to explore how Christian pastors work with LGB individuals and their families. Additionally, this study explored how pastors’ approaches to working with LGB individuals and their families varied based on the degree to which families were accepting or rejecting of their LGB family members. Twenty-one mainline Protestant Christian pastors were interviewed. Thematic analysis identified three themes and a number of subthemes that provide new insights for family therapists by highlighting that pastors engaged in theological conversations with families to encourage acceptance, walked with families in their journey of navigating external discrimination, and provided resources such as connection to community services and referrals to family therapy.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/08952833.2022.2141989
B. Hawkins, V. Zuiker
ABSTRACT Over one in ten heterosexual married couples are interracial and close to 10% of marriages are transnational. Even with the increasing rates of intermarriage there continues to be opposition to such marriages and their families. This study aimed to explore the lived experiences of transnational couples, where both partners hail from different countries, as they navigate life in the U.S. Six heterosexual transnational couples across the country were interviewed separately and together using a phenomenological design, and within and across case analyses were conducted. Race, skin color, visibility, nativity, gender, and language interconnected to engender experiences that were different across every couple as they conceptualized how best to protect their families while navigating through varying social narratives, and familial and societal expectations about their relationship. The emergent themes organized into three intersecting processes -internal, intermediary, and external- as these couples navigated their different values, each other, and other systems in their lives. Implications for research and clinical practice follow.
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