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Gender Issues in Family Therapy and Couples Counseling

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Although this is a handbook on “gender,” and a chapter on “gender issues,” we believe it is important to focus on feminism. Feminism is a conceptual framework that subsumes gender because it focuses on gendered differences in power and privilege. Scholars who focus on gender often limit their discussion to gender differences in behaviors and ignore differences in power and privilege.

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    The clinical vignettes in the evidence-based treatment section were created based on the second author’s clinical experience, case consultation, and supervision of graduate students. The clinical vignettes in the social justice section are paraphrases from other authors’ articles and chapters, as referenced in the text.

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Many people have been helpful to us as we prepared this chapter. We want to acknowledge Rhea Almeida and Beverly Greene who read an earlier version of the manuscript. In addition, Guillermo Bernal was helpful in addressing the state of the literature in terms of cultural competence and couples and family therapy.

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Silverstein, L.B., Brooks, G.R. (2010). Gender Issues in Family Therapy and Couples Counseling. In: Chrisler, J., McCreary, D. (eds) Handbook of Gender Research in Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1467-5_11

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