Utah Association for Women in Psychology
WELCOME to the Utah AWP website. We are the Utah chapter of AWP. AWP is an incorporated, not-for-profit scientific and educational feminist organization devoted to reevaluating and reformulating the role that psychology and the mental health field generally play within women's lives. It seeks to act responsibly and sensitively with regard to women by challenging the unquestioned assumptions, research traditions, theoretical commitments, clinical and professional practices, and institutional and societal structures that limit the understanding, treatment, professional attainment, and responsible self-determination of women and men, or that contribute to unwelcome divisions between women based on race, ethnicity, age, social class, sexual orientation or religious affiliation.
Its role thus includes education and sensitization of mental health professionals, encouragement and recognition of women's concerns and those who promote them, reconceptualization and expansion of perspectives within psychology, advocacy and critique regarding professional and institutional practices, and the provision of opportunities for creative feminist contributions and the dissemination of feminist ideas.
Our Logo
THE Utah AWP logo is a fusion of the Greek letter psi (the symbol for the field of psychology), the horns and sun disk of the Egyptian goddess Hathor (connoting femininity, motherhood, joy, music and dance), and the Utah landscape.
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