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In the fifteen years since the explosion of the Internet, using cyber technology for work and social functions has exponentially increased. Yet, questions around how to manage such changes remain elusive in family therapy literature. In this investigation, we conducted a content analysis to determine to what extent marriage/couple and family therapy (M/CFT) journals have responded to the integration of the Internet in couple and family life. We found 79 of 13,274 articles across seventeen journals focused on the Internet in some capacity. Implications for clinical practice, training, and future research are discussed.
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Bibliometria , Terapia de Casal , Terapia Familiar , Internet/estatística & dados numéricos , Publicações Periódicas como Assunto/estatística & dados numéricos , HumanosRESUMO
What is the extent to which marriage/couple and family therapy (M/CFT) journals address transgender issues and how many of them say they are inclusive of transgender persons when they are not? To answer these queries, a content analysis was conducted on articles published in M/CFT literature from 1997 through 2009. Of the 10,739 articles examined in 17 journals, only nine (0.0008%) focused on transgender issues or used gender variance as a variable. Findings support the assertion that transgender issues are ignored and marginalized by M/CFT scholars and researchers alike.
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Terapia de Casal , Terapia Familiar , Terapia Conjugal , Pessoas Transgênero/psicologia , Terapia de Casal/métodos , Terapia de Casal/estatística & dados numéricos , Terapia Familiar/métodos , Terapia Familiar/estatística & dados numéricos , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Terapia Conjugal/métodos , Terapia Conjugal/estatística & dados numéricos , Publicações Periódicas como Assunto/estatística & dados numéricos , Publicações Periódicas como Assunto/tendênciasRESUMO
The purpose of this study was to explore potential influences on marriage and family therapists' comfort level when working with lesbian and gay male clients, including sex, age, race, sexual orientation, political orientation, religious practices of the therapist, as well as the level of support for lesbian and gay male human rights. Participants in this study were 199 experienced therapists. Results indicated that higher levels of religious practices were related to lower levels of support for lesbian and gay male human rights and to lower levels of comfort working with lesbian and gay male clients. When support for lesbian and gay male human rights was considered, the level of religious practices was no longer predictive of comfort working with lesbian and gay male clients.
