Bridging Separate Gender Worlds

Bridging Separate Gender Worlds provides therapists with gender-sensitive techniques and interventions to help clients understand the challenges of today's confused gender expectations. The authors offer three models of interventions for working with different types of clients. They also detail various methods that can be used within any type of therapy: the gender inquiry, the gender role journey, and the coevolution process. These practical solutions and techniques can help therapists transform angry confrontations and helpless confusion into nonblaming empathy and change.  Backed up by research and richly illustrated with case examples, this volume eschews the angry polemics of gender debates and the easy solutions of popular trade books. Instead, the authors provide therapists and students with an excellent resource for exploring gender issues within the therapeutic relationship. 

Description is from Publisher: American Psychological Association

Reviews

"This book offers an authoritative, well-crafted discussion about the importance for clinicians of understanding gender-role socialization and its contribution to the dysfunction that clients bring to our offices. It is theoretically sound, grounded in research... a must-read for every practicing psychologist." - Beth M. Erickson, Ph.D.,  author of Helping Men Change: The Role of the Female Therapist

"Drs. Philpot, Brooks, Lusterman, and Nutt have done the field a great service by writing Bridging Separate Gender Worlds. This work take us light years beyond overly simple "Mars-Venus" explanations of gender and provides a rare glimpse into the deeper levels of this topic, one that illuminates the complications and contradictions. This wonderful volume is at once both scholarly and practical." - Ronald F. Levant, Ed.D., ABPP, co-author of Masculinity Reconstructed and co-editor of A New Psychology of Men.

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