Sex-role values and bias in alcohol treatment personnel.
During a two day training workshop with 45 alcohol treatment agency personnel, the impact of sex-role bias on clinical practice with alcoholic clients was examined. More specifically, data were gathered on: 1) client comfort level of surrogate clients as related to perceived sex-role values of treatment personnel; and 2) the impact of patient sex and sex-linked characteristics of presenting problems (whether problems are "typically" male or female, and whether "sex-appropriate") on each of the following: perceived importance of client's presenting problems, specificity of the treatment plan to problems presented, and clinician's estimate of client prognosis. The results suggest that sex-role values of treatment personnel influence client comfort, that female clients are seen as having a poorer prognosis than males, and that presenting problems are perceived to be more important if they are sex-appropriate than if they are not sex-appropriate (the least important problems being female problems in a male client).
D000437:Alcoholism / Q000628:therapy*; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D004651:Employment; D005190:Family; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D011379:Prognosis; D013240:Stereotyping