Women, Girls & Psychotherapy

Reframing Resistance

Author: Carol Gilligan
Secondary Author: Annie G Rogers
ISBN: 9781560230120

Adolescent girls’special needs in the teen-age years are thoroughly examined in Women, Girls & Psychotherapy, a compelling book focusing on the vitality of resistance in young girls. Drawing on studies of women’s and girls’development, clinical work with girls and women, and their personal experiences, the voices of adolescent girls are used to reframe and greater understand their resistance against debilitating conventions of feminine behavior. As adolescent girls are often overlooked in feminist books in psychotherapy, this is an important volume as it looks positively at resistance, both as a political strategy and a health-sustaining process.The chapters cover such diverse topics as reconceptualizations of women’s and girls’psychological development and the psychotherapy relationship; adolescent female sexuality; new approaches to psychological problems commonly seen in girls and women; female adolescent health; and diverse perspectives and experiences of growing up femal

Publisher: Routledge
Publish Date: 2014-02-04

Subjects: Family & Relationships / Life Stages / Adolescence, Health & Fitness / Women's Health, Psychology / Psychotherapy / Child & Adolescent, Psychology / Psychotherapy / General, Psychology / Mental Health, Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Psychology/Emotional Health)