A feminist analysis of Germain and Gitterman's life model of practice reveals that the life model fails to address the problematic nature of the concept of goodness-of-fit, particularly in relation to practice with women. The life model is an example of a paradigm that does not clarify the societal problems sufficiently. Further, the analysis suggests the consideration of the conflict model as an alternative explanation of the person-environment interaction.
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Ketayun H. Gould (1987) studied this question.
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