• issues in the process of therapy with female clients
• problems in living that affect women in greater proportion than men, such as depression, eating disorders, and agoraphobia
• women's traditional and nontraditional roles in society and how these affect and can be affected by therapy
• the special needs of minority women, lesbians, older women, and women with disabilities
• the special needs of feminist therapists
• effective interventions and alternatives to traditional treatment approaches.

The high-quality articles in Women & Therapy will be of greatest interest to feminist therapists and health professionals; individuals who educate, supervise, or train therapists; individuals in training to become therapists; and feminist researchers and scholars who are interested in issues confronting women and therapy.

Few areas in psychology and related health professions have developed as quickly in recent years as women and therapy. This journal investigates challenges in therapy such as:

• gender differences and similarities as they relate to biological, personality, cognitive, and developmental factors
• women as they enter new roles at work and in personal relationships
• the change of attitudes by therapists in interacting with female clients in order to influence and incorporate the changes taking place in society.
• the role of the media that has popularized these developments so that the consumer of therapy is better educated about women's issues than ever before.

Women make up the overwhelming majority of clients in therapy, yet there has been little attention given to this fact in the training of therapists or in the professional literature. Women & Therapy is designed to fill this void of information.