Women together again: A phenomenological study of leaderless women's groups

Kees, Nathalie L.

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“…One article specifically described the two researchers as being clinical psychologists, one who identified as Bangladeshi and the other as Indian (Mahtani & Huq, 1993). Another article clearly stated the author was a teacher of group and leadership processes (Kees, 1999). A few of the articles specified that the authors were not the leaders or therapists in the groups.…”

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“…Among the current empirical studies available on women's groups, there are vast differences in the populations explored. The populations included adult women (Graff, Whitehead, & LeCompte, 1986;Hodge, Stubbs, Gurgin, & Fredericks, 1998;Kauffman, Dore, & Nelson-Zlupko, 1995;Kees, 1999;Saxe & Johnson, 1999;Threadcraft & Wilcoxon, 1993), women of color (Brisbane & Stuart, 1985;Heilbron & Guttman, 2000;Mahtani & Huq, 1993), college-age women (Sullivan & Mahalik, 2000, Yahne & Long, 1988, high-risk mothers (Jarrett, Diamond, & El-Mohandes, 2001), mothers of children with special needs (Lovenfosse & Viney, 1999), widowed survivors of suicide (Constantino, Sekula, & Rubinstein, 2001), women who have experienced spousal abuse (Schlee, Heyman, & O'Leary, 1998), and older women (Burnside, 1993;Creanza & McWhirter, 1994;Johnson & Wilborn, 1991;McLeod & Ryan, 1993). It is interesting to note the range of populations being studied in the group setting from widowed survivors of suicide to African American women with alcoholic parents.…”

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“…Many studies were more issue oriented; the focus of the studies appeared to be the issue in question, not the population or sample used in the study. The issues explored included sexual victimization (Saxe & Johnson, 1999;Talbot et al, 1999;Threadcraft & Wilcoxon, 1993), divorce (Graff et al, 1986), chemical dependency (Gilbert & Beidler, 2001;Kauffman et al, 1995), self-esteem (Yahne & Long, 1988), leaderless groups (Kees, 1999), adjustment to prison (Sultan, Long, & Kiefer, 1986), dependency on others (Perkins & Lynch, 1992), career intervention (Mawson & Kahn, 1993), occupational engagement (Rebeiro & Cook, 1999), career choice (Peng, 2001), and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; Schlee et al, 1998).…”

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“…Other types of sampling were found in a few of the studies. For example, Threadcraft and Wilcoxon (1993) used purposeful sampling in order to find adult female survivors of sexual victimization and Kees (1999) used purposeful snowball sampling to find women in leaderless groups.…”

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“…Half of the studies reported that their findings were helpful for women's groups; the other half reported that their findings were important but not in specific relation to women. Multiple studies reported an increase in women's feelings of support (Constantino et al, 2001;Jarrett et al, 2000;Kees, 1999;Lovenfosse & Viney, 1999;Sultan et al, 1986). Many studies also reported that the women's group increased the participants' self-esteem or self-concept (Perkins & Lynch, 1992;Yahne & Long, 1988) and self-efficacy (Sullivan & Mahalik, 2000).…”

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Researching Women's Groups: Findings, Limitations, and Recommendations

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2005

Journal of Counseling &Amp; Development

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There is not a "typical" women's group, nor are there "typical" women's issues. Every women's group is diverse, with as many viewpoints and perspectives as there are members in the group. Using the group format for women is common practice with many counselors. It is interesting that there has been little empirical research reported on women's groups, how women's groups function, or what useful techniques are used in successful women's groups. Indeed, there is a dearth of empirical research on women's groups. Although there are many articles available that describe women's groups with various populations and issues (e.g., Brody, 1996;Comas-Diaz, 1986;Tlakula, 1998) or discuss strategies for use with women in groups (e.g., Boudin, 1998;Green, 1991;Rife, 1997), there are very few articles written that report empirical research on the effectiveness of women's groups.There have been a handful of articles written that discuss this deficiency. In 1978, Nassi and Abramowitz located only nine published articles on women's groups. They concluded that this "relative paucity of research . . . does not appear to be merely the result of a normal time lag between social phenomenon and scholarly notice" (p. 154). They go on to state that this scarcity might exist from the "'masculine bias' that is embedded in all such institutions" (p. 155) and thus is embedded in research.Walker (1981) reviewed the literature and concluded that women's groups have a unique identity and are different in structure, process, and outcome from mixedgendered groups. Huston (1986) reviewed the literature on women's groups by critiquing Walker's conclusions and found that many of the articles that Walker cited as being based on empirical research studies were, in fact, not research based. Furthermore, many of the other research studies cited were found to have methodological problems. Huston concluded that "very little" (p. 289) can be concluded from the research. In addition, Huston stated, "feminists must move from presenting theory alone to validating their theoretical positions" (p. 290) by doing and reporting empirical research.Hoshmand (2003), in the recently published Handbook on Counseling Women, has declared a "sense of discovery about women as a relatively underresearched population" (p. 548). Hoshmand goes on to state that "there is an urgent need to develop research protocols that are both clinically and culturally sensitive" (p. 552). One of the major foci of the chapter is the importance of using qualitative inquiry and action research when researching women and women's issues. Based on this continued dearth of empirical research on women's groups, the purpose of this article is to report the current state of published research on women's groups and provide recommendations for future research in this area. MethodTo assess the current state of research on women's groups, a search of the literature was completed. Two major search engines (PsycINFO and ERIC) were used to find articles. With these search engines, the key words women and rese...

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