African American women in therapy: an Afrocentric and feminist synthesis
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Traditional psychotherapy is founded on androcentric and Eurocentric cultural values that complicate the assessment of African American women whose behavior patterns reflect their gender and culture. Afrocentric and feminist psychotherapy models each address one of the problems of meeting African American women's mental health needs but either exclude or minimize the treatment of the other aspect. Therefore, a synthesis of the Afrocentric and feminist models is necessary to address both the gender and cultural issues faced by African American women who choose to enter psychotherapy.
Publication Name: Women & Therapy
Subject: Women's issues/gender studies
ISSN: 0270-3149
Year: 1992
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Differential perceptions of sexism
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Sexism has become widely accepted as a negative part of US society but there is no generally accepted definition of what constitutes sexism. A study of 78 men and 52 women undergraduates who were primarily white revealed that women tend to rate situations as sexism more often than men and that authoritarian beliefs tended to relate to a perception of less sexism. These different perceptions have relevance in therapy because if clients do not perceive situations as sexist then they could internalize the causes. In addition, therapists must be aware of their own perceptions of sexism.
Publication Name: Women & Therapy
Subject: Women's issues/gender studies
ISSN: 0270-3149
Year: 1992
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Hypoactive sexual desire in heterosexual women: a feminist analysis
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Heterosexual women commonly seek treatment for hypoactive sexual desire but traditional psychotherapy consistently looks for family history or couple problems rather than identifying social and cultural expectations. Women's sexuality remains an undefined area where sexual research is male biased and therefore inapplicable. In addition, social expectations of women's desire vary from no desire to insatiable and therefore dangerous desire. A reasonable definition of women's desire must first be determined to establish accepted parameters for sexual disorder therapy.
Publication Name: Women & Therapy
Subject: Women's issues/gender studies
ISSN: 0270-3149
Year: 1992
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