The Psychological Outcomes of Self-Silencing in Women as Compared to Men and Emotion-Focused Therapy
The Psychological Outcomes of Self-Silencing in Women as Compared to Men and Emotion-Focused Therapy
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2025-07-31
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Marshall, Kallee
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Self-silencing is a strategy used by women to maintain affiliation and security in their relationships. It is a way of avoiding conflict and meeting sociocultural expectations to be a "good woman"—that is, kind, passive, and submissive (Maji & Dixit, 2019). This capstone employs a constructivist paradigm, silencing the self theory, and attachment theory to understand the psychological impacts of self-silencing in women and provide a therapeutic framework that offers insight into the process of emotion-focused therapy for individuals and groups and the principles and interventions that may support women’s empowerment and subjective well-being.
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self-silencing , silencing the self theory , attachment theory , emotion-focused individual therapy , emotion-focused group therapy , psychological impacts
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States , openAccess