Carol L. Philpot

Casebook for integrating family therapy : an ecosystemic approach

This casebook uses an ecosystemic approach to integrating different kinds of family therapy. It includes individual, couples and family therapy as well as interventions such as here-and-now, transgenerational, and other systemic approaches.

A Treatise on Doors and Bridges

Abstract In 1987, Florence Kaslow, president of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association, appointed Carol L. Philpot and Gary Brooks co-chairs of a newly formed Gender Issues Committee. They were given a mandate to open a positive dialogue between the genders that would diminish the animosity that had developed in the wake of the feminist movement of the 1970s. The synergy between the co-chairs resulted in a decade of research, writing, and clinical practice designed to achieve that mandate, culminating in the APA publication of Bridging Separate Gender Worlds: Why Men and Women Clash and How Therapists Can Bring Them Together in 1997. This article discusses the main tenets of that book.

The Gender Inquiry

Abstract The gender inquiry is basically a set of questions that guide an interview regarding the gender messages one has received throughout the life cycle. The purpose of these questions is threefold. (1) They teach, through personal example, that the gender ecosystem is at the core of many of the misunderstandings and dissatisfactions experienced between the genders and therefore depersonalize much of the conflict. (b) They demonstrate how the sexes influence and mold one another within the family of origin and pass on similar destructive messages to future generations. (c) The insight that results from this activity engenders greater empathy for the other gender and serves as the beginning of a dialogue about how to change detrimental messages that interfere with problem resolution.