Psychological Practice with Women

The ambitious goal of this book is to transform how mental health practitioners understand and treat diverse groups of women. Doing so involves thinking in more nuanced ways about women's multiple identities that are formed from the complex interplay of ethnic and racial background, social class, sexual orientation, ability/disability status, religion, age, and other factors. The chapters, which are written by authors of diverse backgrounds, are chock full of helpful perspectives, techniques, and case studies. They reflect the experience of women who have lived and studied the research on the social identities they discuss and thus convey a depth of understanding of women's experiences as outsiders-within. While grounded in the APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice With Girls and Women, the volume also integrates other guidelines for affirmative practice with diverse groups (e.g., multicultural; disability; and lesbian, gay, and bisexual guidelines). It will enhance readers' practice with all women.

Carolyn Zerbe Enns, PhD, is a professor of psychology and a contributor to the ethnic studies and the gender, sexuality, and women's studies programs at Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, USA. Her scholarly interests include multicultural, feminist, and transnational perspectives on psychotherapy and pedagogy. She has written approximately 60 articles and chapters that focus primarily on gender, pedagogy, and feminist theory and psychotherapy. Dr. Enns is the author of Feminist Theories and Psychotherapies and coeditor of Teaching and Social Justice and the Oxford Handbook of Feminist Multicultural Counseling Psychology. She has received the Heritage Award for contributions to feminist practice (APA Division 35 [Society for the Psychology of Women]), the Distinguished Leader for Women in Psychology Award (APA Committee on Women), the Florence L. Denmark/Mary E. Reuder Award for contributions to the international psychology of women (APA Division 52 [International Psychology]), and the Woman of the Year Award and the Foremother Award (Section for the Advancement of Women, APA Division 17 [Society of Counseling Psychology]). Joy K. Rice, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and emerita professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a recipient of the Educational Press Association Distinguished Achievement Award and the Denmark/Reuder Award for Outstanding International Contributions to the Psychology of Women and Gender. Her 4-decade career has focused on women and their issues and concerns nationally and globally in the areas of marital and family studies and gender and cross-cultural issues in psychotherapy. Dr. Rice is the coauthor of Women and Leadership: Transforming Visions and Diverse Voices and "International Perspectives on Women and Mental Health" in the 2010 Handbook of Feminism and Women's Rights Worldwide. Roberta L. Nutt, PhD, ABPP, is training director of the counseling psychology doctoral program at the University of Houston, Texas, USA. She formerly served as founder and training director of the counseling psychology doctoral program at Texas Woman's University, USA and director of professional affairs of the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB).She is past president of APA Divisions 17 (Society of Counseling Psychology) and 43 (Society for Family Psychology), is past chair of the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists, holds fellow status in APA and seven of its divisions and ASPPB, and is ABPP board certified in counseling psychology and family psychology. She has published numerous articles, chapters, and books on women's and gender issues in psychology. Drs. Nutt, Rice, and Enns coauthored the 2007APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice With Girls and Women and were corecipients of the 2008 Woman of the Year Award from the APA Section for the Advancement of Women in Counseling Psychology for "significant contributions and promotion of the status of women in psychology, leadership and activism on behalf of women, and research that has significantly advanced knowledge of women's concerns in counseling psychology."