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Volume 6, Issue 3 (Suppl) J Nurs Care
ISSN: 2167-1168 JNC, an open access journal Nursing Edu 2017
May 22- 24, 2017
May 22- 24, 2017 Osaka, Japan
20th World Nursing
Education Conference
Gender aware approaches in psychiatric nursing
Yasemin ÇEKIÇ1 and Gülsüm ANÇEL²
Ankara University Faculty of Health Sciences, Turkey
In epidemiologic studies, gender was found to be an important factor in the incidence of mental illnesses. In the world and in Turkey, mental illnesses prevalance are
twice as common in women as in men. One of the main reasons for this situation is gender discrimination shaped by patriarchal values. For this reason, gender aware
approaches were required in psychotherapies. Feminist therapy is a gender aware psychotherapy approach. This approach has emerged as a collective product of the
ongoing women's movement, which has been more than two hundred years old, and its use has increased in the 1960s and 1970s. Feminist therapy is an approach to
mainly women and groups that have been under all kinds of repression, discrimination, deprived of rights. Feminist nurse therapists who applied this approach expressed
that they have made important changes in their counselors like increase in self-esteem, assertiveness, self-assurance, independence, improvement effective coping and
problem-solving skills and decrease in depression, helplessness and hopelessness following their feminist therapy applications. Those who appropriate the medical model
are criticized because they do not address the implications of social, political, and cultural dimensions on the individual's mental health and can not recognize the difficulties
brought about by race, class, gender, and homosexuality. In this presentation, the necessity of gender aware in psychiatric nursing in Turkey will be discussed and this
requirement will be dealed in terms of strengthening the existence of psychiatric nursing and also contributing to community mental health.
Yasemin Cekic et al., J Nurs Care 2017, 6:3 (Suppl)