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INTRODUCTION. During recent decades, girls and women of diverse ethnicities and races, abilities, social classes, sexual orientations, gender identities, and life experiences have encountered dra-matic and complex changes in education, work, reproductive and caregiving roles, and per-sonal relationships.
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The objective of this review is twofold: (a) to examine the strength of the evidence for a relationship between self-objectification and cognitive functioning, and (b) to evaluate potential mechanisms behind such a relationship.
These guidelines address psychological practice with women and girls of diverse ethnicities, social classes, sexual orientations, and life experiences who have encountered changes in education, health, work, reproductive and caregiving roles, and personal relationships.
Oct 23, 2019 · Girls and women are better than boys and men at interpreting and sending nonverbal social messages, including skill at reading emotional states conveyed in facial expressions, gesture, and body...
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- Understanding The Intersections
- Supporting Women's Strengths
- Thinking Globally
- A Call For Action
CE credits:1 Learning objectives: After reading this article, CE candidates will be able to: 1. Discuss the research on the stressors that are more common in women. 2. Describe how the new guidelines for girls and women encourage psychologists to help women tap their strengths. 3. Discuss how the guidelines seek to raise awareness of how the inters...
The effort to revise the guidelines began in 2013, and a diverse group of more than three dozen practitioners, scholars and graduate students contributed to the new document. The project was co-chaired by Comas-Díaz; Debra Mollen, PhD, a professor of counseling psychology at Texas Woman's University; and Sharon Lamb, EdD, PhD, a professor of counse...
While understanding the challenges girls and women face is key, a new guideline also urges psychologists to recognize the strengths and resilience of girls and women and to honor and cultivate those strengths. Girls and women face many systemic challenges, Mollen says, from relationship violence to limits to reproductive freedom to unequal pay. But...
The guidelines also reflect a trend, both within psychology and without, to look at how people function in a globalized world. "Global approaches to psychological practice are needed as more transnational people, particularly girls and women, are leaving their countries," Comas-Díaz says. The guidelines urge practitioners to understand girls and wo...
Given the guidelines' focus on systemic issues facing women and girls, the recommendations also include inspiration to change the system. Part of this may involve supporting patients as they take on helping roles, Comas-Díaz says. "Research has shown that once you go beyond yourself and start concentrating on others and contributing, that really he...
Sep 9, 2020 · Women are increasingly visible in leadership positions: They head prominent laboratories, departments, and professional societies; play key roles in navigating the direction of psychological science; and are mentoring the next generation of scientists. Nevertheless, some gender gaps persist.
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Dec 10, 2014 · This thoroughly revised new edition updates Sheila Greene's original transformative account of the psychological development of girls and women and the central role of time in shaping human experience.
