-A Study on the Sexist Problems in Korean Family and Feminist Family Therapy-

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association 1994;32(2):145-160.

한국가족에서의 성불평등적 문제들과 여권론적 가족치료에 관한 고찰

최연실

서울대학교 가정대학 소비자아

-A Study on the Sexist Problems in Korean Family and Feminist Family Therapy-

최연실

ABSTRACT

This paper reviews the feminist approach in family therapy field as a proper intervention for the sexist problems in Korean family. First this paper identifies the sexist problems according to the traditional family ideology structure and value conflicts due to the change of society in Korean family and analyses those problems referred to the actual situation of family counseling and therapy. Second this paper introduces the background for the emergence of the feminist family therapy. The feminist approach in family therapy had been emerged since the woman's psychology and feminist therapy appeared in psychology by the influence of women's movement in late 1960s Third the critiques to the existed family therapy from the viewpoint of feminist family therapy are raised. this approach which is challenging the existed family therapy and criticizing the main theoretical models especially emphasizes gender as a primary factor in the approaches of family problems and includes all the aspects of feminism an awareness of sexism and attempts to counteract the ways in which family therapy may reinforce women's surbodinate position. Fourth the techniques of feminist family therapy and the training methods for feminist family therapists are explained. this approach attempts to develop the clinical skills teaching tools and techniques to incorporate the feminist perspective into family therapy practices and proposes the various education and training methods. Finally this paper reviews interests in the feminist family therapy in Korea an has good prospects of increase of it.