Enhancing Cognitive Therapy with Women

Multicultural applications of cognitive-behavior therapy.

“…Using the inclusive definition of minority populations, however, there is a growing number of articles on cognitive-behavior therapy with minority populations, most of them published within the last few years. These studies include investigations of the usefulness of cognitive-behavior therapy with Puerto Rican women (Comas-Diaz, 1981) and religious Christian clients (Johnson & Ridley, 1992); a feminist critique of cognitive-behavior therapy (Kantrowitz & Ballou, 1992); discussions of special considerations in conducting multimodal assessment with Mexican Americans (Ponterotto, 1987) and cognitive therapy with gay men (Kuehlwein, 1992), lesbians (Wolfe, 1992), women (Davis & Padesky, 1989) and battered women (Douglas & Strom, 1988), Native Americans (Renfry, 1992), and older people (Glantz, 1989;Thompson, Davies, Gallagher, & Krantz, 1986). In addition, there have been articles published on assertiveness and social skills training with ethnic minority groups (LaFromboise & Rowe, 1983;Wood & Mallinckrodt, 1990) and women (Gambrill & Richey, 1986); a discussion of creative problem-solving with people who have new disabilities (Frieden & Cole, 1984); and a case study of rationalemotive therapy with an unmarried, pregnant Mormon client (by Ellis, summarized in A. E. Ivey, M. B.…”