# @mentalhealthpartnersco on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C4Y0-NHuDXn
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11482470-mentalhealthpartnersco-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-03-11T20:48:14.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Mental Health Partners (@mentalhealthpartnersco) — https://gondola.cc/mentalhealthpartnersco

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Each year in March, we celebrate the courageous contributions and achievements of women in history who were able to overcome the odds stacked against them in a male-dominated society.
Check out part 2 of Women Mental Health Leaders. Find more detailed bios on our website. #LinkInBio

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Image 1: Profile silhouettes of women in orange, yellow, and blue. Light yellow background with colorful spots, text: Women Mental Health Heroes, Part 2 in gray text. MHP half circle logo
Image 2: text: Martha E. Bernal, PhD, 1931 – 2001. Martha Bernal, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, was the first Latina to receive a doctorate degree in psychology in the US. She was instrumental in establishing empirically validated interventions for child treatment and the assessment of children with behavior problems, as well as advancing multicultural psychology. She also helped establish the National Hispanic Psychological Association and served as its second president.
Dr. Bernal helped bring about structural change within the American Psychological Association and the field of psychology as a whole. 
Image 3: Text: Kitch Childs, PhD, 1937 – 1993. Ellen Kitch Childs was an American clinical psychologist who advocated for the rights of marginalized women, sex workers, and the LGBTQ+ community. She helped found the Association for Women in Psychology to address the lack of organized research into the psychology of women, and she was the first African American woman to earn her doctorate degree in Human Development at the University of Chicago. 
Dr. Childs was a lesbian and an activist in queer, women’s, and Black spaces. She helped found Chicago’s Gay Liberation Front, was a founding member of the University of Chicago’s Chicago Lesbian Liberation. 
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