Toward an Analysis of Sex-role Related Issues in the Therapeutic Relationship

Gender Issues in Counselor Education: Current Status and Challenges

“…Women enter therapy more frequently, express more affect, and more often present relationship-related problems (Collier, 1982;Mintz & O'Neil, 1990). Those profiles fit with the general socialization process for both men and women in our society (Hare-Mustin & Marecek, 1988;Kaplan, 1979;Kimmel & Messner, 1992;Mintz & O'Neil, 1990).…”

Traditionally Defined Client, Meet Feminist Therapist: Feminist Therapy as Attitude Change

“…Many women have legitimate anger towards men (Kaplan, 1979) or are lesbians and would not be able to trust the therapist at the beginning of therapy when a great deal of important work is done (Rawlings & Carter, 1977). A male therapist could not identify with the political statement separatist lesbians are making by relating sexually to women and not men; in fact, according to lesbian therapist, Escamilla-Mondanaro (1977), it may be that only a lesbian therapist can work with a lesbian separatist woman.…”

Battering Men and Their Male Therapists: The Different and the Similar

“…This becomes evident in the contradictory pressures that male therapists experience in the therapy regarding their gender roles. Kaplan (1979) attempted to describe the therapist's role as having two major dimensions: the authority and the empathic-facilitative. While assuming therapists of both genders desire to posses both these qualities, she sees the challenge of male therapists in tempering their inclination to be authoritative and developing their capacity for empathy, and vice-versa with female therapist.…”