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While gender has taken its place as a fundamental construct in family therapy theory, little has been written about gender in family therapy supervision. This paper attempts to redefine gender as it pertains to families, family therapy, and family therapy supervision; call attention to aspects of gender as they apply to training in family therapy and family therapy supervision; and suggest ways that family therapy supervisors can sensitize themselves to issues of gender so that they can be more effective in supervision.
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The author gratefully acknowledges her husband, Victor Nelson, STM, and Eric McCollum, PhD, for their comments on an earlier draft of this paper and for helping with the idea that “men are raised to fix things, women to make them better.”
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Nelson, T.S. Gender in family therapy supervision. Contemp Fam Ther 13, 357–369 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00897875
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00897875