Feminist Approaches to Working with Complex Trauma

And It’s s Important to Think CriticallyAbout Gender Because?‣ Gender is such a powerful organizing variable for selfthat people frequently self-objectify and shame ordenigrate self for ways in which one “fails” as woman orman‣ If therapist thinks critically about gender (and other sociallocations), can offer hypotheses about this to clients‣ Thinking critically about gender/social location is centralto feminist perspectives on working with trauma, sincetrauma is often a gendered experience, and a biopsychosocialone as well involving sex-linked bodysystems as well as gendered behaviors