Four basic principles or tenets of feminist therapy are outlined to create a framework to review and suggest feminist strategies for career assessment. These four tenets (the relationship is egalitarian, sociocultural conditions are the primary sources of women's psychological problems, the personal is political, the essential goals for women's mental health are self definitions and determination) capture and summarize the common philosophical values that underline all major feminist stances (cultural, liberal, social and radical).
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