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WGST 310: Feminist Approaches to Counselling Women focuses on crisis, or short-term, counselling. Students will have the opportunity to practice their skills and receive feedback. Students will gain an understanding of the major conceptual, ethical, and theoretical issues in the field of counselling women.

Required Readings

Unit 1

Evans, K.M., Kincade, E.A., Marbley, A.F., & Seem, S.R. (2005). Feminism and feminist therapy: Lessons from the past and hopes for the future. Journal of Counseling & Development, 83(3), 269–277.

Worell, J., & Remer, P. (2003). Overview of empowerment feminist therapy. In Feminist perspectives in therapy: Empowering diverse women (pp. 66–74). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. Reproduced by permission of John Wiley and Sons.

(The article is downloadable only.)

Hill, M., & Ballou, M. (1998). Making therapy feminist: A practice survey. Women & Therapy, 21(2), 1–16.

Cummings, A.L. (2000). Teaching feminist counselor responses to novice female counselors. Counselor Education and Supervision, 40(1), 47–58.

Simi, N. L., & Mahalik, J. R. (1997). Comparison of feminist versus psychoanalytic/ dynamic and other therapist on self-disclosure. Psychology of Women Quarterly 21(3), 465–483.

Rader, J., & Gilbert, L.A. (2005). The egalitarian relationship in feminist therapy. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 29(4), 427–435.

Linnenberg, D.M. (2006). Thoughts on reality therapy from a pro-feminist perspective. International Journal of Reality Therapy, 26(1), 23–26.

Unit 2

Cummings, A.L. (2000). Teaching feminist counselor responses to novice female counselors. Counselor Education & Supervision, 40(1), 47–57.

Hersh, J.B. (1985). Interviewing college students in crisis. Journal of Counseling and Development, 63(5), 286–289.

Murdach, A.D. (2009) Making difficult decisions. Social Work, 54(4), 371–373.

Nielsen, K.M., & Dewhurst, A.M. Feminist crisis counselling. (2010). In L.R. Ross (Ed.), Feminist Counselling: Theory, Issues and Practice (pp. 286–298). Toronto, ON: Women’s Press. Reproduced by permission of Canadian Scholars' Press and/or Women's Press

Unit 3

Canadian Psychological Association, Section on Women and Psychology. (2007). Guidelines for ethical psychological practice with women. Home page: Canadian Psychological Association website.

Feminist Therapy Institute. (2000). Feminist therapy code of ethics. Home page: http://www.chrysaliscounseling.org

Berube, Pierre. (2001) Limits to confidentiality and consent for services: Working with minors and dependent adults. College of Alberta Psychologists. Issue 10. Home page: http://www.cap.ab.ca

Government of Alberta. (2000). Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act in Alberta. Home page: http://www.child.alberta.ca

Little, J. (2005). Feminist ethical development: From Wonder Woman to Wondering Woman. Child & Youth Care Forum, 34(2), 111–126.

Unit 4

Brown, L. (2004). Feminist paradigms of trauma treatment. Psychotherapy: Research, Practice, Training, 41(4), 464-471.

Elbow, P. (2008). The believing game—Methodological believing. The selected works of Peter Elbow. Home page: http://works.bepress.com

Elliot, D. E., Bjelajac, P., Fallot, R., Markoff, L., & Reed, B. (2005). Trauma-informed or trauma-denied: Principles and implementation of trauma-informed services for women. Journal of Community Psychology, 33(4), 461–477.

Cluss, P., Chang, J., Hawker, L., Hudson Scholle, S., Dado, D., Buranosky, R., & Goldstrohm, S. (2006). The process of change for victims of intimate partner violence: Support for a psychosocial readiness model. Women’s Health Issues, 16(5), 262–274. [doi:10.1016/j.whi.2006.06.006]

McKloskey, K., & Fraser, J. (1997). Using feminist MRI brief therapy during initial contact with victims of domestic violence. Psychotherapy, 34(4), 433–446.

Nielsen, K., & Dewhurst, A.M. (2006). The Harm Reduction and Abused Women's Safety (HRAWS) Framework. In M R. Hampton & N. Gerrard (Eds.), Intimate partner violence: Reflections on experience, theory and policy. Toronto, ON: Comorant Books. Used with the permission of Cormorant Books Inc.

Brown, L., & Bryan, T. (2007). Feminist therapy with people who self-inflict violence. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 63(11), 1121–1133.

Unit 5

Campbell, J.C. (2004/2010). Danger Assessment. John Hopkins University. Home page: http://www.dangerassessment.org

Campbell, J.C., Webster, D.W., & Glass, N. (2009). The Danger Assessment: Validation of a lethality risk assessment instrument for intimate partner femicide. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 24(4), 653-674.

Aardvarc.org (An Abuse, Rape and Domestic Violence Aid and Resource Collection). (n.d.). Domestic violence safety plan. Home page: http://www.aardvarc.org

Centre for Suicide Prevention. (2008).Women and suicide. Part 2: Risk and protective factors. SIEC Alert #68. Home page: http://www.suicideinfo.ca/.The Centre for Suicide Prevention is a program of the Canadian Mental Health Association.

Lee, J.B., & Bartlett, M.L. (2005). Suicide prevention: Critical elements for managing suicidal clients and counselor liability without the use of a no-suicide contract. Death Studies, 29(9), 847–865.

Centre for Suicide Prevention. (2002). No-suicide contracts: A review of the findings from the research. SIEC Alert #49. Home page: http://www.suicideinfo.ca/. The Centre for Suicide Prevention is a program of the Canadian Mental Health Association.