"Jill Schwarz' book, Counseling Women Across the Life Span: Empowerment, Advocacy, and Intervention, will be an excellent addition to any gender library, or a course in gender. It is a solid and innovative text".
- -- Catherine B. Roland, Ed.D, LPC, NCC, President, American Counseling Association (2016-2017)
This book, the first comprehensive text to focus specifically on counseling women and girls, provides a sweeping overview of female life span development and issues and offers a unique integration of prevention, advocacy, and interventions. With contributions from leading scholars and practitioners in diverse fields, it provides information, resources, and practical suggestions that counselors can use to help empower individual women and girls to live as their authentic selves, and to engage as effective collaborators in addressing societal inequities. With a strong focus on empowerment and adherence to a social justice framework, the book highlights the value of mental health practitioners employing strengths-based approaches and advocating for systemic change.
Based on a foundation of understanding females' diverse holistic development, the text explores the major theoretical approaches relevant to counseling and psychotherapy with women and girls. It then discusses the key issues faced by females at different developmental stages and describes appropriate counseling strategies for each, focusing on prevention as well as intervention. Specific concerns and strategies for women in different contexts, such as education, physical health and body image concerns, and violence, are emphasized. Unique to the text is coverage of how men specifically can serve as allies and advocates in creating healthier and safer societies for women and girls. Replete with supporting features such as learning objectives, self-reflection prompts, personal narratives, discussion questions, abundant resources, and strategies for how professionals can serve as advocates and change agents, this book is an ideal core text for courses on counseling women or gender issues in counseling, social work, psychology, marriage and family therapy, and women's studies programs, as well as a useful resource for mental health practitioners.
Key Features:
- Uniquely covers life span development and counseling issues, needs, and application for females across the life span
- Emphasizes advocacy, prevention, and practical intervention strategies
- Examines the contextual elements that affect the female experience, including the oppressive structures in which they live
- Addresses global perspectives, diverse women, a social justice framework, and empowerment
- Includes learning objectives, first-person accounts, "Calls to Action" and self-reflection and discussion questions
- A sample course calendar and syllabus are available to instructors to aid in course development
Contents
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
SECTION I: FOUNDATION
1: Counseling Women and Girls: Introduction to Empowerment Feminist Therapy
Jill E. Schwarz
2: Gender Socialization
Cheryl L. Fulton
3: Intersectionality: Understanding Power, Privilege, and the Intersecting Identities of Women
Alina S. Wong
4: Women and Relationships: Introduction to Relational-Cultural Theory
Alyson M. Pompeo-Fargnoli
SECTION II: LIFE SPAN
5: Gender Identity Development
Megan E. Delaney
6: Childhood
Sarah I. Springer
7: Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Jennifer E. Randall, Christine J. Schimmel, and Eva Barnewitz
8: Middle and Older Adulthood
Lucy Charlene Parker and Suzanne Degges-White
SECTION III: IMPACT
9: Violence Against Women and Girls
Rebecca Vazquez and Atsuko Seto
10: Educational and Work Environments
Amy D. Zavadil
11: Females and Their Bodies
Dana Heller Levitt and Connie S. Ducaine
12: Men as Allies
Christopher Kilmartin
Index
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- Release Date: March 13, 2017
- Paperback / softback
- 260 Pages
- Trim Size: 7in x 10in
- ISBN: 9780826129161
- eBook ISBN: 9780826129178