The personal, professional and political: when clients have disabilities

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Author's Abstract:COPYRIGHT 1999 The Howarth Press, Inc. When clients have disabilities, questions arise about boundaries, advocacy, and the interface between personal and political agendas. In disability-affirmative therapy, the clinician incurs responsibilities in multiple areas: understanding the minority model and its treatment implications; valuing disability culture; awareness of the distinction between disability and impairment; facility with discussions of values and disability dialectics; ability to integrate sociopolitical forces into treatment; facility with countertransference; ability to incorporate disability into the case formulation; staying within one's area of competence; working with disability within larger systems; understanding of disability in context; and valuing disability as part of diversity training, teaching, and reasearch. Keywords: Disability, advocacy, disaiblity-affirmative therapy, minority model

Disabled persons, Discrimination against disabled persons, Handicapped discrimination

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The ostrich raises its head: "knowing" and moral accountability in the practice of psychotherapy

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Author's Abstract: COPYRIGHT 1999 The Howarth Press, Inc. What is "knowing" in psychotherapy? What impact does it have on patients and therapists? Does knowing have moral relevance? This paper explores these questions through traditional, feminist, and psychoanalytic critiques of epistemology. Countertransference issues are addressed, including a discussion of therapists' resistances to knowing about their patients' realities. The author proposes that when therapists can truly "know" their patients, and patients are able to know themselves, moral responsiveness and accountability ensue. Keywords. Knowing, epistemology, psychoanalysis, morality, feminism

Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Knowledge, Theory of, Epistemology

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Sins of omission and commission: women, psychotherapy, and the psychological literature

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Issues concerning women and psychotherapy have received more attention in the psychological literature from 1990-92. Work by and for women has also increased in literature that has begun to mirror the growing diversity within the field of psychology. References to the experiences of older women, however, remain pejorative while references to biracial as well as disabled women are sorely lacking.

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