ABSTRACT
There has been increasing attention to contextual issues in the practice of couple and family therapy in recent years. Issues of gender and power were the first to come to the fore, closely followed by issues of culture, ethnicity, and race (Leslie, 1995). More recently, issues of spirituality and religion have gained prominence (Walsh, 1999a). Much of the discussion about gen-
der and culture has been driven by the feminist critique of the field (Leslie, 1995). Central to this discussion has been attention to power differences be tween the sexes and cultures in our society, and more recently in spirituality as well.
