Gendered Antecedents and Consequences of Young Women's Suicidal Acts in Sri Lanka.

In the late 1990s, Sri Lanka had a record rate of suicide deaths. Since then, deaths have decreased dramatically due to the restriction of lethal agrochemicals. The number of nonfatal suicidal acts, however, remains extraordinarily high. A disproportionate number of these cases are adolescents and young adults-mainly girls and young women. This paper offers a close look at adolescent girls in rural Sri Lanka who had engaged in nonfatal suicidal acts. We carried out interviews with daughters and mothers while the girls were receiving medical care following a suicidal act. Drawing from these interviews, we describe the circumstances leading to girls' suicidal acts, the responses and moral judgments made by adult family members, and the reputational and social consequences of these acts. Few girls intended to die; none had previously undertaken a suicidal act, and none gave evidence of "mental illness". In many cases, girls' suicidal acts were triggered by acute family conflicts, often concerning situations that were seen to compromise the girl's sexual respectability and the honor of her family.

Janis S. Bohan (1945-2021).

Memorializes Janis S. Bohan (1945-2021). Janis was a profound thinker, a prolific researcher, and an indefatigable activist, whose contributions influenced feminist and lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and other gender and sexual minorities (LGBTQ+) scholarship. During the 1990s, she published pivotal articles in Psychology of Women Quarterly which brought to psychologists' attention critical advances and trenchant debates in feminist theory. During her long retirement, Janis engaged in many volunteer activities and extensive political activism, both locally and nationally. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

Rachel T. Hare-Mustin (1928-2020).

Memorializes Rachel T. Hare-Musitn (1928-2020). She was a distinguished scholar, a pioneering feminist family therapist, and a dedicated leader in the American Psychological Association (APA). Her intellectual legacy includes two books and nearly 120 articles and chapters on professional ethics, gender theory in psychological research, gender relations in contem porary (heterosexual) couples, and feminist critiques of family ther apy theories. She served as president of the American Family Therapy Association (1990-1991). (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

Mary Brown Parlee (1943-2018).

Mary Brown Parlee was a pioneer feminist scholar who made noteworthy and enduring contributions to the study of the menstrual cycle. Parlee died in Somerville, Massachusetts, on June 27, 2018, following a hemorrhagic stroke. Throughout her career, Parlee devoted considerable energy to educating the public about psychology and to correcting misapprehensions about women that the discipline had promulgated. In the late 1970s, she served as an associate editor for Psychology Today, which was then a well-regarded popular scientific publication. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

Is three a crowd? Clients, clinicians, and managed care.

How does therapy change when therapists work under managed care plans? To explore this question, the authors conducted in-depth, semistructured interviews with therapists. The interview texts were analyzed using a structured thematic coding system. A central theme in the interviews was a culture clash between managed care companies and these therapists. Working for managed care organizations demanded several practices that violated the therapists' standard of care and professional ethics. Also, participants reported that managed care personnel misrepresented the nature of psychotherapy to clients, thereby undermining the therapeutic work and the therapist-client relationship. If these therapists' experiences are representative, the growth of managed care has serious implications for the nature of psychotherapy, practitioners' integrity and morale, and the public image of the therapy professions.

Culture revisited: A reply to comments.

Replies to comments by Winston & Maher (see record 2015-45553-005), Abi-Hashem (see record 2015-45553-006), and Hook & Watkins (see record 2015-45553-007), on the original article by Christopher et al. (see record 2014-20055-001). In this brief response, the authors clarify some elements of their thinking and address some misconceptions put forward by the commentators.

Critical cultural awareness: contributions to a globalizing psychology.

The number of psychologists whose work crosses cultural boundaries is increasing. Without a critical awareness of their own cultural grounding, they risk imposing the assumptions, concepts, practices, and values of U.S.-centered psychology on societies where they do not fit, as a brief example from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami shows. Hermeneutic thinkers offer theoretical resources for gaining cultural awareness. Culture, in the hermeneutic view, is the constellation of meanings that constitutes a way of life. Such cultural meanings-especially in the form of folk psychologies and moral visions-inevitably shape every psychology, including U.S. psychology. The insights of hermeneutics, as well as its conceptual resources and research approaches, open the way for psychological knowledge and practice that are more culturally situated.

Carol Nagy (Jacklin) (1939-2011).

Carol Nagy (Jacklin) was a pioneer scholar of gender as well as a steadfast advocate for women's rights. She was born in Chicago in February 23, 1939. She died of cancer on August 8, 2011, at the age of 72. Carol was a developmental psychologist whose work focused mainly on babies and preschool-age children. She is best known as the co-author (with Eleanor Maccoby) of the groundbreaking volume The Psychology of Sex Differences (Stanford University Press, 1974).