A primary goal of graduate programs in counseling psychology is to train students to use theory to understand people and to guide clinical decisions. I adapted Gergen's (1988) 5 central tenets of a feminist research method into an approach for teaching graduate students how to use theory. I include specific examples of how faculty might apply these feminist tenets.
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