Feminist Intersectional Therapy

Fourth Wave Clinical Applications

Joanne Jodry, Kathleen McCleskey

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9798881862008
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Clinical Psychology
• Index: Social Sciences

How can we apply fourth wave feminist and intersectional theories in therapy?

Feminist intersectional therapy can be an essential tool for clinicians struggling through new territories of suffering under today's oppressive cultural, social, and political norms and systems. Feminist Intersectional Therapy: Fourth Wave Clinical Applications is a foundational text that provides an advanced understanding of feminist and intersectional theories, and how they can be applied within the mental health disciplines. Editors Joanne Jodry and Kathleen McCleskey collaborate with other educators and clinical practitioners from a range of identities, professions, and theoretical orientations. Going beyond a single rigid framework, the author collective builds on feminist theory's foundational roots, infused with intersectional theory, to conceptualize multiple, flexible clinical applications with original models and creative techniques.

This book addresses fundamental topics across all clinical mental health disciplines, from ethics and human development to various clinical modalities-individual, relational, family, group therapy, and clinical supervision. Specialty areas that are covered include spiritual issues, crisis intervention and trauma, substance use, career counseling, and sexual topics. It also discusses specific individuals with diverse identities-children, adolescents, and older adults; disabled individuals; BIPOC individuals; individuals with nondominant gender and affectional identities; and those from other oppressed and privileged identity groups. Lastly, this book explores future directions for feminist intersectional therapy, from higher education pedagogy to research.

Table of contents

• Cover
• CONTENTS
• Preface
• Joanne Jodry and Kathleen McCleskey
• Part I Foundational Principles for Feminist Intersectional Therapy
• 1 History of Feminist Theory: The Personal Is Political in Therapy
• 2 Fourth-Wave Feminist Intersectional Theory Foundations
• 3 Feminist Intersectional Theory Considerations: Ethics
• 4 Feminist Intersectional Theory and Human Development
• Part II Feminist Intersectional Therapy Clinical Modalities
• 5 Fourth-Wave Feminist Intersectional Applications: The Personal Is Political
• 6 Feminist Intersectional Group Therapy
• 7 Feminist Intersectional Couple, Relationship, and Family Therapy
• 8 Feminist Intersectional Therapy and Substance Use
• 9 Feminist Intersectional Theory With Crisis Intervention and Trauma
• 10 Feminist Intersectional Career Theory
• 11 Feminist Intersectional Theory and Spiritual Philosophies
• 12 Feminist Intersectional Therapy and Sexuality
• 13 Feminist Intersectional Clinical Supervision and Mentoring
• Part III Specific Populations and Feminist Intersectional Therapy
• 14 Feminist Intersectional Therapy with BIPOC People
• 15 Feminist Intersectional Therapy: Nondominant Gender and Affectional Identities
• 16 Feminist Intersectional Therapy with Children and Adolescents
• 17 Feminist Intersectional Therapy and Disability
• 18 Feminist Intersectional Therapy: Empowered Aging for Older Adults
• 19 Feminist Intersectional Theory and Privileged Identities
• Part IV Feminist Academic and Future Evolution
• 20 Feminist Intersectional Pedagogy in Higher Education: Clinical Mental Health Focus
• 21 Feminist Research: A Fourth-Wave Frame for Inquiry
• 22 The Future of Feminist Theory: Fourth Wave or Fifth Wave?
• Index
• About the Contributors