Gender & Mental Health Prevalence
Who are women?
This gender is more likely to experience depression.
These types of factors explain biological predispositions contributing to gender differences in mental health.
What are biological and genetic factors?
This landmark study first demonstrated gender bias in psychotherapy diagnosis.
What is the Broverman study?
This therapy approach centers on empowerment of women.
What is feminist therapy?
Discrimination, especially based on gender or race, has this kind of impact on mental health.
What is destructive?
What are anorexia and bulimia?
These two eating disorders show strong female-biased prevalence.
These factors focus on thinking styles and beliefs that may differ between genders.
What are cognitive factors?
Today, sexism in therapy is described in this way—less obvious but still impactful.
What is subtle?
Feminist therapy emphasizes this kind of collaboration between therapist and client.
What is egalitarian collaboration?
These guidelines outline best practices for working with girls and women, trans people, and people of color.
What are the APA guidelines for psychological practice?
What are alcohol and substance-use disorders?
Men show higher prevalence of these two disorders involving maladaptive coping with alcohol and drugs.
These factors emphasize societal expectations, norms, and gender roles.
What are sociocultural factors?
Researchers found that therapists sometimes diagnose women as more emotionally unstable due to internalized cultural norms—this is an example of what?
What is gender bias in diagnosis?
Feminist therapy recognizes how these broader forces shape women’s psychological experiences.
What are sociocultural or systemic factors?
Psychologists have an ethical responsibility to advocate for groups historically facing this.
What is discrimination and marginalization?
What is a lopsided gender ratio?
The pattern of gender differences in disorder prevalence is described using this term reflecting imbalance.
The major theories explaining gender differences in mental health take this combined perspective.
What is an interactionist approach?
Psychotherapy training has changed in response to research findings and this type of critique.
What is feminist criticism?
This feminist therapy concept stresses validating women’s lived experiences.
What is consciousness-raising (or validation of lived experience)?
Psychological practice extends to both individual and this broader level of social systems.
What is the institutional level?
This mental health disorder shows one of the largest gender gaps and is strongly associated with sociocultural pressures on women.
What is anorexia or depression?
This kind of model explains how biological, cognitive, and sociocultural factors influence each other over time.
What is a biopsychosocial (or interactionist) model?
One form of subtle sexism in treatment is when therapists unintentionally minimize or misattribute women’s concerns to this.
What are gender stereotypes? / What is “being emotional”?
Critics sometimes question whether feminist therapy overemphasizes this, but supporters argue it is crucial for understanding women’s mental health.
What is the role of societal oppression?
This role of psychology emphasizes supporting the psychological well-being of all people, especially those in marginalized groups.
What is promotion of well-being / social justice advocacy?