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    A Handouts-PSY512 CH 7

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    This document discusses gender differences in several mental health disorders. It reports that: - Women are at higher risk than men for sedative/hypnotic/anxiolytic use disorders, panic attacks, social phobias, conversion disorder, and somatization disorder. - There are no gender differences in obsessive compulsive disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, or body dysmorphic disorder. - Dissociative identity disorder is more common in women, with a reported ratio of 3-9:1. - Sexual dysfunctions and paraphilias are rarely diagnosed in women, with men outnumbering women 20:1.

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    This document discusses gender differences in several mental health disorders. It reports that: - Women are at higher risk than men for sedative/hypnotic/anxiolytic use disorders, panic attacks, social phobias, conversion disorder, and somatization disorder. - There are no gender differences in obsessive compulsive disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, or body dysmorphic disorder. - Dissociative identity disorder is more common in women, with a reported ratio of 3-9:1. - Sexual dysfunctions and paraphilias are rarely diagnosed in women, with men outnumbering women 20:1.

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    This document discusses gender differences in several mental health disorders. It reports that: - Women are at higher risk than men for sedative/hypnotic/anxiolytic use disorders, panic attacks, social phobias, conversion disorder, and somatization disorder. - There are no gender differences in obsessive compulsive disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, or body dysmorphic disorder. - Dissociative identity disorder is more common in women, with a reported ratio of 3-9:1. - Sexual dysfunctions and paraphilias are rarely diagnosed in women, with men outnumbering women 20:1.

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    Gender Issues In Psychology (PSY512) VU

    omen are at a higher risk in sedatives, hypnotics, or anxiolytics (American Psychiatric


    Association, 2000). Women are at a higher risk of panic attacks with and without agoraphobia
    (ratio 2-3:1), and social phobias in women in general population (men higher in clinical settings).
    There are no gender differences in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or Posttraumatic Stress
    Disorder (American Psychiatric Association, 2000).

    Conversion Disorder is substantially more common in women than in men (ratio 2-10:1)
    (American Psychiatric Association, 2000).
    Women account for 95% of somatization disorder patients (Tomasson, Kent, and Coryell, 1991).
    In the U.S, this diagnosis is rare in men, but not so in other cultures (American Psychiatric
    Association, 2000).
    There are no gender differences in Body Dysmorphic Disorder. Dissociative Identity Disorder is
    more common in women with a ration of 3-9:1. Sexual dysfunction, Paraphilias is rarely
    diagnosed in women, and the men to women ratio are 20:1.

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    Gender Issues In Psychology (PSY512) VU

    Lesson 43
    GENDER AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
    Most students doing an under graduate or graduate course in psychology are familiar with the
    various perspectives or prevalent models in psychology. All of these models have their specific
    approach towards the understanding and explanation of mental illness, as well as the therapeutic
    interventions for treating these disorders. In our discussion on gender and psychotherapy we will
    not go into the details of the commonly known psychotherapeutic approaches that may be around
    400 in number.
    It is assumed that you are already fully aware of these approaches. Our emphasis, in this segment
    of this course, will be upon the feminist approach toward psychotherapy. As discussed earlier, the
    feminist approach emphasizes women’s issues, the impact of socialization, gender stereotypes,
    issues specific to women’s well being, and similar topics. Before starting our discussion on
    gender and psychotherapy, let us try to find the answer to a question!

    What is common between psychoanalysis, Behavioral Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy,


    Existential Therapy and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy?
    If the question puzzles and confuses you, then think about another question!
    What is common between Freud, Jung, Adler, Watson, Skinner, Rogers Maslow and Ellis??
    We are sure that you have found the answer. In the former question, all the therapeutic
    approaches mentioned were given by male psychologists. And in the latter, all the psychologist
    mentioned are males. Not only that all these are male psychologists but, more than that they are
    all male psychologists, from the west, all white.

    In our discussion on gender and psychopathology, we mentioned that men are used as norms;
    stereotypically masculine gender roles are considered as a standard. As a result, a behavior
    deviating significantly from this norm, i.e., feminine behavior, is likely to be identified as
    pathological. A similar trend has been observed, and can always be expected, in the therapeutic
    intervention if the therapeutic process is male-dominated, male-centered, and male-controlled.

    As a result of the feminist movement of the 1960s, psychological approaches, and therapeutic
    interventions also saw a shift in focus. Psychotherapists with a feminist approach do not deal
    with, and understand, pathology in the same manner as a conventional therapist would usually do.
    We find two key elements at the core of the feminist therapeutic process:
    a) Gender
    b) Power

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