The Feminist-Solution Focused Counseling vs. Psychoeducational Model: Which One is Better?

Abstract

Feminist-solution focused counseling (F-SFC) refers to the integration of approaches that focuses on the solution and problem. It can be applied to help counselees with any issues on gender inequality. However, the effectiveness of F-SFC compared to the psychoeducational model still needs to be tested. The experimental study was chosen to test whether F-SFC is more effective than the psychoeducational model. The gender equality scale was used for the pre-test and the posttest. The data was collected using the Delphi method to formulate the concept of gender equality. T-test and ANCOVA were utilized to test the hypotheses. The results showed that both F-SFC and psychoeducational model were found effective to help counselees with gender equality issues. The effectiveness of the feminist-solution focused counseling was determined by the consistency of counselor in holding the counseling based upon the guidance of F-SFC. The increases of the understanding about gender equality can be seen from the counselees’ responses of the exceptional questions, miracle questions, scaling questions and coping questions in the counseling process. Meanwhile, the effectiveness of the psychoeducational model was determined by the design of materials, media and facilitators.