In spite of growth of feminist family therapy literature in the last five years, the practice of feminist family therapy is unclear due to the diversity of therapeutic theories. The research question that guided this study was "What are feminist family therapists writing about the practice of feminist family therapy?" A panel of experts was asked to nominate representative literature about the practice of feminist family therapy. / Content analysis and grounded theory techniques were used to analyze the data. These techniques permitted descriptive depth so that the diversity of approach could be included but also provided a way to seek organizational clarity amid the diversity. A core or organizing category and considerable theoretical coherence across the fifty-six authors were discerned. However, weaknesses in feminist family therapy theory were revealed by the practice literature: (1) the role of men in egalitarian relationships is not clear; (2) power is only considered in terms of men's abuse of power, ignoring women's abuse of power and power abuses due to race or class; (3) while familial and societal causality is addressed, there often is vagueness regarding individual causality and responsibility; and (4) a deficit model approach to nontraditional family styles predominates in spite of efforts to the contrary. Suggestions are made for future research and ways to address these weaknesses. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-12, Section: A, page: 4599. / Major Professor: Thomas Edward Smith. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1993.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77051 |
| Contributors | Coe, Mary Jordan., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 303 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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