Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Girls and Women

Target audience and instructional level of this course: foundational

There is no known conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.

TRAINING

Course Description

Women and girls live within sometimes complex cultural contexts and multiple cultural contexts. Clinicians can engage more effectively in psychological practice with women and girls when they possess contextual knowledge, understanding, and expertise. This course provides evidence that there is a need for such informed psychological practice. In addition it provides specific guidelines for working with women and girls and provides applications of those guidelines.

Learning Objectives

After completing this training the professional will be able to:

• Describe factors in the lives of women and girls that indicate a need for contextual knowledge, understanding, and expertise to work effectively with women and girls in psychological practice.
• Summarize guidelines for informed, effective psychological practice with women and girls.

Author(s)/Reference(s)

Click Here Joint Task Force of American Psychological Association - Divisions 17 and 35