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In addition to negatively impacting mental and physical health, violence against women can interfere with life at work, home, and school. In some cases, violence results in death. [5] Children exposed to violence are also at risk for developing mental and physical health problems. Depending on their age, children may react differently to ...
Overall, education sector responses tend to focus on homophobia and violence linked to sexual orientation and gender identity/expression, and less on transphobia. Most responses focus in some way on diverse expressions of gender and support students to understand that gender may be expressed in a different way from binary models (of masculine ...
Evidence shows that there is a direct association between LGBT individuals' development of severe mental illnesses and the exposure to discrimination. [ 5 ] In addition, there are a lack of access to mental health resources specific to LGBT individuals and a lack of awareness about mental health conditions within the LGBT community that ...
Education sector responses to LGBT violence addresses the ways in which education systems work to create safe learning environments for LGBT students. Overall, education sector responses tend to focus on homophobia and violence linked to sexual orientation and gender identity/expression , and less on transphobia .
Warren drew "an analogy between the concept of genocide" and what she called "gendercide". In her book, Warren wrote: By analogy, gendercide would be the deliberate extermination of persons of a particular sex (or gender). Other terms, such as "gynocide" and "femicide," have been used to refer to the wrongful killing of girls and women.
Mental health in education is the impact that mental health (including emotional, psychological, and social well-being) has on educational performance.Mental health often viewed as an adult issue, but in fact, almost half of adolescents in the United States are affected by mental disorders, and about 20% of these are categorized as “severe.” [1] Mental health issues can pose a huge problem ...
Women are dying of femicide at a startling rate in many states around the country – with 51 killed last year in North Carolina alone. Andrea Cavallier reports on one community’s attempt to change
Gay affirmative psychology was first established in the 1970s. It was founded with the mission of 1) challenging the idea and view of homosexuality as a mental illness and 2) affirming the normal and healthy psychological functioning of homosexual individuals by dispelling beliefs and attitudes of homosexuality being associated with mental ...