How does the feminist counselor approach the issue of power in the clients life?
a. The feminist counselor will focus on the power in the clients family structure, particularly to equalizing patriarchal power focus.
b. The feminist counselor will focus on power outside the clients family, helping the client to identify powerful role models and disengage from family power struggles.
c. The counselor will devote time to forces both inside and outside the family, to gender-role acceptance and rejection, to equalizing power relationships between sexes, and to developing the capacity in all family members to listen to each other.
d. The feminist counselor focuses on the client and the clients values. The clients relationship to power will correct itself as the client becomes stronger in the therapy sessions.
e. Feminist counselors are not concerned with power and roles in the family or in society.
Question 2
How does the feminist counselor view the family?
a. When the counselor is dealing with an individual, the family is not of interest to the counselor.
b. It is important to understand the power structure of the family, the family functioning, and its well-being.
c. How the counselor conceptualizes the family with respect to the client depends on the counselors primary theoretical orientation.
d. The counselor focuses on how the family causes the clients problems.
e. The counselor focuses on how the family can help the client overcome his or her problems.