The grief process in bereaved children is conceptualized as a series of psychological tasks that must be accomplished over time. Early tasks include understanding and self-protection; middle-phase tasks include acceptance and reworking; late tasks pertain to identification and development. This timing model has practical implications for the conduct of psychotherapy at different times during the grief process.

Feminist therapists have described the negative effect that therapy has on women, given its replication of patriarchal features of the broader society. However, the dialectical interplay between feminist theory and psychotherapy can enhance rather than impede the practice of feminist therapy. Feminist therapists face contradictions between avoiding abuse of power and accepting legitimate authority; between affective sharing and the use of intimacy to circumvent relational conflicts; between their feminist beliefs and internalized, unconscious sex-role norms; between their collaborative values and the hierarchical nature of their discipline and of psychotherapy. These contradictions are most accessible to therapists-intraining for whom supervision can heighten an awareness of the interplay between personal influences and technical requirements. Two developmental models are provided for delineating feminine therapists' evolving use of these contradictions in their formulations of client dynamics and in the therapy relationship. Case examples from therapists in training translate these models into specifics of clinical practice.