There are few words that really make me cringe, as I’ve pretty much heard it all, but there’s one that still makes my skin crawl, and that’s the F word. No, no, not the four-letter word we hear every ...

Something not openly talked about or widely addressed in the LGBTQ+ community is how "internalized queerphobia" continues to cause challenges in the lives of LGBTQ+ people. We cannot talk about ...

When I worked with Latino teenage boys as a clinician and counselor, I encountered quite a bit of homophobia. I once led a group in healthy relationships in South Central L.A. and the boys I worked ...

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Woman standing on a scale. (Photo by: Joan Slatkin/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) A recent Lancet study of 4060 individuals reported that the pressure to lose weight from family and the ...

Dr. Mariska Van der Horst, associate professor at Vrije University in Amsterdam, presents findings from a study on internalized ageism. As people age, they internalize stereotypes about what it means ...

It’s time to get really honest with ourselves. If you were raised as a girl, you probably have some internalized misogyny: the projecting of sexist ideas onto other women and even yourself, mostly ...

A new study has found that internalized skin bias has a role in diminishing HRQOL and negatively affects mental health among these patients. A cross-sectional study is putting a spotlight on the ...