The Dynamics of Power and Privilege in Psychotherapy
Published on 30. December 2018
Video
DVD Video
978-1-4338-2994-9 (ISBN)
Description
Societal issues based in power and privilege inevitably enter the therapy room. In this video, Malin Fors offers a fresh synthesis of ideas to unmask these hidden dynamics and in the process improve therapeutic relationships and outcomes.
During the discussion with interviewer Dr. Katherine Helm, Fors explains the matrix of relative privilege, a model consisting of four core client-therapist dynamics:
similarity of privilege
privilege favoring the therapist
privilege favoring the patient
similarity of nonprivilege
This matrix may be used to understand the power dynamics not only in psychotherapy and counseling, but in all treatment relationships.
In this program, Malin Fors demonstrates and discusses clinical topics associated with the model, such as voluntary and involuntary self-disclosure, similarities between patient and therapist, and internalized oppression, and then highlights specific moments in the demonstration session where client-therapist power dynamics come into play.
During the discussion with interviewer Dr. Katherine Helm, Fors explains the matrix of relative privilege, a model consisting of four core client-therapist dynamics:
similarity of privilege
privilege favoring the therapist
privilege favoring the patient
similarity of nonprivilege
This matrix may be used to understand the power dynamics not only in psychotherapy and counseling, but in all treatment relationships.
In this program, Malin Fors demonstrates and discusses clinical topics associated with the model, such as voluntary and involuntary self-disclosure, similarities between patient and therapist, and internalized oppression, and then highlights specific moments in the demonstration session where client-therapist power dynamics come into play.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Washington DC
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4338-2994-9 (9781433829949)
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Malin Fors is a Swedish psychologist and psychoanalyst living in the world's most northern town, Hammerfest, Norway. For more than ten years, as a guest lecturer at Gothenburg University in Sweden, Fors has been teaching students in clinical psychology about how issues of power, privilege, and gender create biases in the assessment of psychopathology.
She is assistant professor at UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, where she teaches medical students on topics of diversity, privilege awareness, and critical perspectives on cultural competency.
She is assistant professor at UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, where she teaches medical students on topics of diversity, privilege awareness, and critical perspectives on cultural competency.