Committee on Women in Psychology, and Committee on Lesbian and Gay Concerns. She also co-chaired the task force that developed APA’s Guidelines for Psychotherapy with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients. RELATIONAL THERAPY FOR DEPRESSED WOMEN Depression an

Simonds to write this practical approach to therapy with depressed women. After giving the student therapist a list of six recom-mended books, Simonds decided to combine the ideas into one model. The result is a highly readable description of her holis-tic approach, which incorporates traditional and nontraditional, multicultural, and feminist theories. The model, designed to treat the wide range of women who suffer from unipolar depression, emphasizes psychotherapeutic counseling rather than pharmacol-ogy. Aimed specifically for feminist therapists treating depressed women, any therapist will benefit from her valuable insights. The “holistic concept of wellness ” as put forth in the I Ching, the ancient Chinese Book of Changes partly inspired Simonds ’ uni-fied approach, which she calls Integrative Relational Therapy (re-ferred to throughout as IRT). By viewing the depressed woman’s range of symptoms as a collection of adaptive strategies devel