There are traditional ways of construing genders. According to them behaviours, attributions, social roles were prescribed for each gender apart and in such a way as to relate their social attribution complementary. As now-a-days genders share equally the same social roles, new social models according to which genders began to be construed less and less different from each other have been promoted. One might imagine that traditional stereotypes have become obsolete. Yet, psychological practice shows that old traditional values and clichés concerning genders are still active. The new social models and the old ones co-habitate in a critical en-meshment which creates misunderstandings, confusing definition of social roles and, not less, individual bewilderment.
The paper presents a psycho-educative approach known as "gender sensitive psychotherapy" which concerns both genders equally. It attempts to increase the awareness and the selfreflec-tive attitude toward the consequences of gender socialisation of the self. It is meant to help discovering how constructs resulted from this process may carry negative implications for communication with gender counterparts and for individual development.
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