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Feminist Relational Advocacy: Processes and Outcomes From the Perspective of Low-Income Women With Depression

¹ Boston College
² University of Wisconsin, Madison
³ University of New Hampshire

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: goodmalc{at}bc.edu.

	Abstract

This article describes a qualitative study of how low-income women who are struggling with symptoms of depression experience feminist relational advocacy, a new model that is informed by feminist, multicultural, and community psychology theories. Using qualitative content analysis of participant interviews, the authors describe the processes and outcomes of feminist relational advocacy from participants’ perspectives; they also consider how emergent themes fit with principles of the model, including the importance of women’s narratives, the inseparability of emotional and practical support, the centrality of the advocacy relationship, and oppression as a source of emotional distress. The article concludes with a discussion of the practice and research implications of the study, highlighting the possibilities of feminist relational advocacy as a new tool for counseling psychologists and the lessons for advocacy models in general.

First published on November 4, 2008, doi:10.1177/0011000008326325

The Counseling Psychologist 2009;37:848.

A more recent version of this article appeared on August 1, 2009


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