Treating Women and Girls in Context

This article describes the recent revision of the APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Girls and Women. The Guidelines emphasize the importance of intersectionality and social context in understanding the challenges confronting girls and women as well as the problems they may express in therapeutic contexts.

Part of the APA Monitor's CE Corner article series.

New format: After reading the CE Corner article, you will be asked to complete a "Commitment-to-Change" (CTC) exercise. The CTC exercise is designed to help facilitate the translation of your learning into practice. Completion of the CTC is required prior to the completion of the CE Test based on the APA Monitor CE Corner article.

This product is not included in the APA Unlimited CE program.

New York state psychologists: This program is not currently in compliance with the unique requirements imposed by the New York State Board of Education for New York licensed psychologists CE.

• Discuss the research on the stressors that are more common in women.
• Describe how the new guidelines for girls and women encourage psychologists to help women tap their strengths.
• Discuss how the guidelines seek to raise awareness of how the intersectionality of different traits, including gender, race, class and age, can inform a woman’s experience.

Stephanie Pappas