Client gender as a process variable in marriage and family therapy: Are women clients interrupted more than men clients?

Ronald Jay Werner-Wilson, Sharon J. Price, Toni S. Zimmerman, Megan J. Murphy

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Abstract

Influenced by language and therapeutic discourse as well as the feminist critique of marriage and family therapy, the authors conducted research to evaluate conversational power in marriage and family therapy. Research on interruptions has received the most empirical attention, so the authors examined videotaped therapy sessions to see if women clients were interrupted more than men clients. This strategy integrated scholarship on gender and conversation into research on marriage and family therapy process. Multivariate analysis of variance was used to examine the different treatment of women and men clients; gender of therapist was used as a control variable. Results indicated that marriage and family doctoral students interrupted women clients three times more than men clients.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)373-377
Number of pages5
JournalJournal of Family Psychology
Volume11
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 1997

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Psychology

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