Empowering Girls: How Body Image, Body Autonomy and Reproductive Health Contribute to Mental Health
ON-DEMAND WEBINAR
Instructors: Charlotte Markey, MA, PhD, Jo-Ann Finkelstein, MEd, PhD & Dena Moes, CNM, MSN.
Facilitator: Robyn Silverman, PhD
Instructional Level: Introductory
1.5 CE credits for Psychologists
1.5 CE credits for New York Psychologists (NYSED)
1.5 CE credits for School Psychologists (NASP)
Duration: 1.5 hours
Price: $45
This is a recording of a previously held live webinar. In order to receive CE credits, users will be required to pass a post-test after watching the video.
Description
In this question-and-answer-based discussion with experts on girls’ physical and psychological development, you will learn about how to empower girls and women and help them to feel comfortable in and knowledgeable about their bodies. The current sociopolitical climate has stripped girls and women of access to information about their bodies; body image, body autonomy and reproductive health are all at risk. Clinical work with girls and young women that embraces a feminist perspective can empower clients, help them develop body positivity, encourage body respect and boundaries, and enable them to seek appropriate medical and reproductive health care. A central tenet of our approach is that body positivity is not just a superficial goal but essential to girls’ and women’s mental health, health behaviors, and physical health. Research and clinical examples will be used to demonstrate the importance of empowering girls and young women.
Learning Objectives
- Attendees will be able to describe importance of body image and body autonomy to development among adolescent girls and young adult women.
- Attendees will be able to describe concepts of agency, boundaries, and consent as it pertains to the body image and sexual health of adolescent and young adult women.
- Attendees will be able to articulate how supporting feminism among girls and women will benefit their mental and physical health.
- Attendees will be able to list medical, personal, and developmental factors to consider when choosing contraceptive methods and reproductive health care support with adolescents and young women.
Instructor Bios
Dr. Charlotte Markey is a psychology professor, researcher, and book author (e.g., The Body Image Book for Girls) with nearly three decades of experience as a body image scientist.
Dr. Jo-Ann Finkelstein has been a clinical psychologist in private practice for 25 years and is the author of Sexism & Sensibility: Raising Empowered, Resilient Girls in the Modern World/
Dena Moes, RN, CNM, is a nurse midwife with 30 years of clinical experience and is author of It’s Your Body: The Young Woman’s Guide to Empowered Sexual Health.
Discussion facilitator:
Dr. Robyn Silverman, a psychologist, parenting expert, and author of How to Talk to Kids about Anything.
The instructors do not have any commercial support and/or conflict of interest for this program.
Contact Us
For questions, please contact: ce@gsapp.rutgers.edu
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