Feminist and Community Mental Health Center Psychotherapists' Expectations of Mental Health for Women.

Aslin, Alice L.

Female (n = 75) and male (n = 55) community mental health center psycho-therapists and feminist therapists (n = 82) were given the Rosenkrantz, Vogel, Bee, Broverman, and Broverman (1968) Sex-Role Stereo type Questionnaire and were asked to rate either mentally healthy adults, females, wives, or mothers. Female community mental health center therapists and feminist therapists were found to maintain one standard of mental health; that is, their perceptions of mental health for adults, females, wives, and mothers did not differ. In contrast, male therapists perceived mentally healthy adults in more male-valued terms than they perceived men tall health' females, wives, and mothers. Additionally, both feminist and other female therapists differed from male therapists in their perceptions of health for mothers, but not for adults and wives.

WOMEN'S mental health; COMMUNITY centers; GENDER role; STEREOTYPES; MARRIED women; FEMINISM; MENTAL health personnel; PSYCHOTHERAPISTS; SOCIAL perception testing

Sex Roles, 1977, Vol 3, Issue 6, p537

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Academic Journal

10.1007/BF00287837