Changing Set: Teaching Family Therapy from a Feminist Perspective

The past decade has seen a proliferation of feminist writings in the family therapy fields. While most of this work has critiqued models of family therapy and offered alternative methods for intervening with families, little attention has been given to the implications of a feminist perspective for the training of family therapists. This article attempts to expand the application of a feminist perspective to family therapy by examining implications for training. Three areas will be considered: (a) implications of a feminist perspective for training, (b) strategies for teaching from a feminist perspective, and (c) issues in teaching feminist family therapy.