Gender Differences in Mental Care Practices

Student: Galiullina Alina

Educational Programme: Sociology (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2020

This paper are devoted to a study of the gender differences in mental health care practices. The one step I conduct an expert interview with a practicing psychologist, the second one was to conduct 14 interviews with both men and women (19-30 years old) living in the post-soviet society and having experience of contacting wit a psychiatrist / psychotherapist / psychologist. The experience of contacting with a specialist was a way to recruit informants. The results describe the gender specificity of mental health care practices and gender-specific perception of mental problems.

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