7 Girls Got Issues: The Importance of Gender- Responsive Treatment in Working with Girls
Objectives
Why Gender-Specific Treatment?
Why Girls Need Gender- Competent Programs For Boys Focus on rules Offer ways to advance thru structured system For Girls Focus on relationships with other people Offer ways to master their lives while keeping these relationships intact
Note:
Mental Illness and Girls
Mental Health by Gender
Issues in working with girls
SAMHSA Assertions about working with girls
Biological/physiological
Societal gender-role expectations
Experience with trauma
Prevalence Rates 18
Special Populations
SAMHSA
Cultural identity and impact on girlhood
Areas of competency needed (SAMHSA)
What is Gender- Responsive Treatment
What does GRT do?
Theory underlying GRT
Strengths-Based
Resiliency
Increasing strengths- based
Relational
Relational-Cultural Theory (Jean Baker Miller)
Gilligan & Mikel Brown
Building healthy alliance
Need to
Demonstrate
Promote healthy connections
Safety
Evidence-Based
Promising Curricula (Per OJJDP)
Other Options
BUT…
Remember
Must
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