This work provides therapists with gender-sensitive techniques and interventions to help their clients understand the challenges of today's confused gender expectations. The practical techniques lead clients to an empathic understanding of their own, and their partner's, gender experiences.

The volume also provides a detailed discussion of the process of traditional gender socialization, how the women's movement of the 1960s altered these old assumptions and the confused and often acrimonious state couples find themselves in today. The reader should be left understanding why so many "new" men and women seem to be struggling with the same old problems. This book extends the work that has been done in feminism and the emerging fields of men's studies by exploring how these two movements interact and complement each other. Backed up by research and illustrated with case examples, this volume provides therapists and students with a resource for exploring gender issues within the therapeutic relationship.

Warning - Sexist Therapy May Be Hazardous To Your Health
Process and Outcomes of Traditional Gender Socialization
Women's Gender Role Stress and Changing Status
Men's Gender Role Strain
Clash of the Genders - When the Two Worlds Collide
Gender Sensitive Psychotherapy
Models of Interventions
Gender Inquiry
Co-Evolution - Calcification or Growth
Counselling the Violent Relationship
Bridging Other Gender Worlds - Applications to Parent-Child and Work Relationships
Confidentiality.