Oliva M Espin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4075368 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Oliva M Espin |
| NOMBRES | Oliva M |
| APELLIDO | Espin |
| FIRMA | ESPIN O M |
| AFILIACIONES | San Diego State University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1975 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Gendered Journeys
This book brings a psychological perspective to the often overlooked and understudied topic of women's experiences of migration, covering topics such as memory, place, language, race, social class, wo
Refugee Women and Their Mental Health
Making Love in English
This article deals with issues of bilingual and multilingual clients in therapy. It addresses the subtle and complex meanings of language choice and language fluency of the client and therapist
Refugee Women and Their Mental Health
An Illness We Catch From American Women”? The Multiple Identities of Latina Lesbians
This article reports the results of several small studies of Latina lesbians undertaken by the author over a period of twenty years. Using her personal experiences as a source of information, she also discusses the psychological implications of multiple identities for this population
Integrating the Personal and Social Voices of Latinas in Feminist Therapy
After Debra and I (Oliva) finalized our co-edited special issue of Women & Therapy on Asian and Asian-American women, it became evident to the both of us that we needed to do the same for Latinas a
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender psychology
This article reports on a conversation between 12 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) psychologists at the first international LGBT Psychology Summer Institute at the University of Michigan in August 2009. Participants discuss how their work in LGBT psychology is affected by national policy, funding and academic contexts and the transnational influence of the US-based stigma model of LGBT psychology. The challenges and possibilities pos…
Out There! Exploring the Varied Experiences of Lesbian Youth
This article serves as an introduction to a special issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies on the lives of lesbian youth
Multicultural Feminist Therapy
Psychological theory needs to be representative of the full range of human experience by being based in the experience of all groups of people. The women honored in this chapter, Jean Lau Chin, Lillian Comas-Diaz, Oliva Espin, Beverly Greene, and Monica McGoldrick, are all feminist therapists, researchers, scholars, clinicians and writers who have directed some substantial portion of their professional attention toward understanding the critical …
Voicing Chicana Feminisms
Women crossing boundaries
Latina Realities
Foreword Lillian Comas-Daz. Experience As A Source Of Theory And Method * Giving Voice to Silence: The Psychologist as Witness * Roots Uprooted: Autobiographical Reflections on the Psychological Experience of Migration Feminist Psychology And Psychotherapy * Womens Diversity: Ethnicity, Race, Class, and Gender in Theories of Feminist Psychology with Mary Ann Gawelek. * Feminist Approaches to Therapy with Women of Color * On Knowing You Are the Un…
The role of gender and emotion in women's experience of migration
This paper focuses on the emotional implications of the crossing of borders and boundaries, both geographical and psychological, implied in the process of immigration. It discusses the main issues and consequences of the process of crossing borders and boundaries for women immigrants in terms of country, transformation of gender and family roles, and language. Particular emphasis is placed on how these issues affect the emotional life and develop…
Leaving the Nation and Joining the Tribe
This paper focuses on parallels between the processes of migration and coming out for lesbians. These parallels have become apparent in the course of a study on the transformations of sexuality in lesbian and heterosexual women who are immigrants to the United States. The psychological transformations created by migration and coming out mirror each other
Race', Racism, and Sexuality in the Life Narratives of Immigrant Women
Life narratives were collected from immigrant women through five individual interviews and three focus groups as part of an on-going study of sexuality and gender-related issues among immigrant/refugee women in North America. The research explores how questions of national identity and sexual identity are determined and negotiated for immigrant and refugee women and the role of `geography' and language in understanding women's boundary and border…
Bridging Feminism and Multiculturalism
No abstract available for this article
Giving voice to silence
Giving voice to silence
Feminist Therapy
Roots Uprooted
No abstract available for this article
Letters From V
Systematic content analysis of personal documents is used to assess the course of personality development in one adolescent female exposed to traumatic historical and personal events, as well as more normative life changes Seventy‐one letters written by a young girl to her former teacher over a 9‐year period comprise the data for this study. Our analyses assess the normal developmental processes of preoccupation with identity formation and the es…
Psychological Impact of Migration on Latinas
This paper examines the psychological implications of the migratory process on Latin American women in the United States, addressing issues of gender roles, acculturation, language, loss, and grief that are frequently presented by immigrant Latinas in psychotherapy. The paper interprets these issues as reflective of the stresses created by the migratory process rather than as issues of individual psychopathology, and suggests ways to respond to t…
Attitudes Towards the Role of Women in Cuban Women Attending a Community College
The study examines both the attitudes towards the role of women in society and the psychological masculinity/femininity manifested by a small group of Cuban-American college women. In Miami, 31 such women completed the Attitudes Towards Women Scale and the Personal Attributes Questionnaire. Overall, the means for this group corresponded with the established American norms. The authors thought that age, number of years in the U.S., mother's educat…
Counseling Women
This article describes a unique master's level specialization for counselors of women and highlights the rationale for instituting this specialized training program, the training format, the program curriculum, and the evaluation methods employed. Also included is a discussion of the systemic implication of such training as it affects those being trained, the training institution itself, and the delivery of mental health services
Counseling for Pain Control
New techniques are being developed that enhance the effectiveness of psychological forces in controlling bodily reactions. Old oriental techniques of the same kind are being rediscovered by the Western world. All of them are powerful tools for the psychological control of pain. This article reviews such techniques and addresses itself to the contributions that counselors-as behavioral scientists and human relations experts-can make to alleviate p…
Psychological Impact of Migration on Latinas
This paper examines the psychological implications of the migratory process on Latin American women in the United States, addressing issues of gender roles, acculturation, language, loss, and grief that are frequently presented by immigrant Latinas in psychotherapy. The paper interprets these issues as reflective of the stresses created by the migratory process rather than as issues of individual psychopathology, and suggests ways to respond to t…
Voicing Chicana Feminisms
Making Love in English
This article deals with issues of bilingual and multilingual clients in therapy. It addresses the subtle and complex meanings of language choice and language fluency of the client and therapist
The role of gender and emotion in women's experience of migration
This paper focuses on the emotional implications of the crossing of borders and boundaries, both geographical and psychological, implied in the process of immigration. It discusses the main issues and consequences of the process of crossing borders and boundaries for women immigrants in terms of country, transformation of gender and family roles, and language. Particular emphasis is placed on how these issues affect the emotional life and develop…
Race', Racism, and Sexuality in the Life Narratives of Immigrant Women
Life narratives were collected from immigrant women through five individual interviews and three focus groups as part of an on-going study of sexuality and gender-related issues among immigrant/refugee women in North America. The research explores how questions of national identity and sexual identity are determined and negotiated for immigrant and refugee women and the role of `geography' and language in understanding women's boundary and border…
Multicultural Feminist Therapy
Psychological theory needs to be representative of the full range of human experience by being based in the experience of all groups of people. The women honored in this chapter, Jean Lau Chin, Lillian Comas-Diaz, Oliva Espin, Beverly Greene, and Monica McGoldrick, are all feminist therapists, researchers, scholars, clinicians and writers who have directed some substantial portion of their professional attention toward understanding the critical …
Feminist Therapy
An Illness We Catch From American Women”? The Multiple Identities of Latina Lesbians
This article reports the results of several small studies of Latina lesbians undertaken by the author over a period of twenty years. Using her personal experiences as a source of information, she also discusses the psychological implications of multiple identities for this population
Counseling Women
This article describes a unique master's level specialization for counselors of women and highlights the rationale for instituting this specialized training program, the training format, the program curriculum, and the evaluation methods employed. Also included is a discussion of the systemic implication of such training as it affects those being trained, the training institution itself, and the delivery of mental health services
Integrating the Personal and Social Voices of Latinas in Feminist Therapy
After Debra and I (Oliva) finalized our co-edited special issue of Women & Therapy on Asian and Asian-American women, it became evident to the both of us that we needed to do the same for Latinas a
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender psychology
This article reports on a conversation between 12 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) psychologists at the first international LGBT Psychology Summer Institute at the University of Michigan in August 2009. Participants discuss how their work in LGBT psychology is affected by national policy, funding and academic contexts and the transnational influence of the US-based stigma model of LGBT psychology. The challenges and possibilities pos…
Leaving the Nation and Joining the Tribe
This paper focuses on parallels between the processes of migration and coming out for lesbians. These parallels have become apparent in the course of a study on the transformations of sexuality in lesbian and heterosexual women who are immigrants to the United States. The psychological transformations created by migration and coming out mirror each other
Roots Uprooted
No abstract available for this article
Counseling for Pain Control
New techniques are being developed that enhance the effectiveness of psychological forces in controlling bodily reactions. Old oriental techniques of the same kind are being rediscovered by the Western world. All of them are powerful tools for the psychological control of pain. This article reviews such techniques and addresses itself to the contributions that counselors-as behavioral scientists and human relations experts-can make to alleviate p…
Attitudes Towards the Role of Women in Cuban Women Attending a Community College
The study examines both the attitudes towards the role of women in society and the psychological masculinity/femininity manifested by a small group of Cuban-American college women. In Miami, 31 such women completed the Attitudes Towards Women Scale and the Personal Attributes Questionnaire. Overall, the means for this group corresponded with the established American norms. The authors thought that age, number of years in the U.S., mother's educat…
Counseling Women
This article describes a unique master's level specialization for counselors of women and highlights the rationale for instituting this specialized training program, the training format, the program curriculum, and the evaluation methods employed. Also included is a discussion of the systemic implication of such training as it affects those being trained, the training institution itself, and the delivery of mental health services
Psychological Impact of Migration on Latinas
This paper examines the psychological implications of the migratory process on Latin American women in the United States, addressing issues of gender roles, acculturation, language, loss, and grief that are frequently presented by immigrant Latinas in psychotherapy. The paper interprets these issues as reflective of the stresses created by the migratory process rather than as issues of individual psychopathology, and suggests ways to respond to t…
Letters From V
Systematic content analysis of personal documents is used to assess the course of personality development in one adolescent female exposed to traumatic historical and personal events, as well as more normative life changes Seventy‐one letters written by a young girl to her former teacher over a 9‐year period comprise the data for this study. Our analyses assess the normal developmental processes of preoccupation with identity formation and the es…
Roots Uprooted
No abstract available for this article
Giving voice to silence
Giving voice to silence
Feminist Therapy
Race', Racism, and Sexuality in the Life Narratives of Immigrant Women
Life narratives were collected from immigrant women through five individual interviews and three focus groups as part of an on-going study of sexuality and gender-related issues among immigrant/refugee women in North America. The research explores how questions of national identity and sexual identity are determined and negotiated for immigrant and refugee women and the role of `geography' and language in understanding women's boundary and border…
Bridging Feminism and Multiculturalism
No abstract available for this article
Leaving the Nation and Joining the Tribe
This paper focuses on parallels between the processes of migration and coming out for lesbians. These parallels have become apparent in the course of a study on the transformations of sexuality in lesbian and heterosexual women who are immigrants to the United States. The psychological transformations created by migration and coming out mirror each other
Latina Realities
Foreword Lillian Comas-Daz. Experience As A Source Of Theory And Method * Giving Voice to Silence: The Psychologist as Witness * Roots Uprooted: Autobiographical Reflections on the Psychological Experience of Migration Feminist Psychology And Psychotherapy * Womens Diversity: Ethnicity, Race, Class, and Gender in Theories of Feminist Psychology with Mary Ann Gawelek. * Feminist Approaches to Therapy with Women of Color * On Knowing You Are the Un…
The role of gender and emotion in women's experience of migration
This paper focuses on the emotional implications of the crossing of borders and boundaries, both geographical and psychological, implied in the process of immigration. It discusses the main issues and consequences of the process of crossing borders and boundaries for women immigrants in terms of country, transformation of gender and family roles, and language. Particular emphasis is placed on how these issues affect the emotional life and develop…
Women crossing boundaries
Voicing Chicana Feminisms
Multicultural Feminist Therapy
Psychological theory needs to be representative of the full range of human experience by being based in the experience of all groups of people. The women honored in this chapter, Jean Lau Chin, Lillian Comas-Diaz, Oliva Espin, Beverly Greene, and Monica McGoldrick, are all feminist therapists, researchers, scholars, clinicians and writers who have directed some substantial portion of their professional attention toward understanding the critical …
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender psychology
This article reports on a conversation between 12 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) psychologists at the first international LGBT Psychology Summer Institute at the University of Michigan in August 2009. Participants discuss how their work in LGBT psychology is affected by national policy, funding and academic contexts and the transnational influence of the US-based stigma model of LGBT psychology. The challenges and possibilities pos…
Out There! Exploring the Varied Experiences of Lesbian Youth
This article serves as an introduction to a special issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies on the lives of lesbian youth
An Illness We Catch From American Women”? The Multiple Identities of Latina Lesbians
This article reports the results of several small studies of Latina lesbians undertaken by the author over a period of twenty years. Using her personal experiences as a source of information, she also discusses the psychological implications of multiple identities for this population
Integrating the Personal and Social Voices of Latinas in Feminist Therapy
After Debra and I (Oliva) finalized our co-edited special issue of Women & Therapy on Asian and Asian-American women, it became evident to the both of us that we needed to do the same for Latinas a
Refugee Women and Their Mental Health
Making Love in English
This article deals with issues of bilingual and multilingual clients in therapy. It addresses the subtle and complex meanings of language choice and language fluency of the client and therapist
Refugee Women and Their Mental Health
Gendered Journeys
This book brings a psychological perspective to the often overlooked and understudied topic of women's experiences of migration, covering topics such as memory, place, language, race, social class, wo
Psychology (20 obras) · Sociology (15 obras) · Gender Studies (13 obras) · Gender Studies (10 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Social Psychology (7 obras) · Immigration (6 obras) · Psychoanalysis (6 obras) · Counseling Practices and Supervision (5 obras) · Human sexuality (5 obras)