| Description |
xi, 360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
"This is a comprehensive, up-to-date and evidence-based review of women's mental health. It starts by considering the social and cultural contexts of women's lives today before addressing how developmental aspects pertain to mental health, exploring biological, evolutionary and psychosocial parameters. The heart of the book contains a series of chapters with a clinical emphasis. These aim to elucidate causal mechanisms for gender differences in mental disorder considering hormonal and environmental influences. The therapeutic implications of gender are then addressed in some detail, with a focus on inter-partner and other forms of violence, substance misuse, personality disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. The book concludes with a detailed section considering psychosis and its sequelae in women and their families. The book's scope is intended to be broad, and it is aimed at a clinical audience including psychiatrists and general physicians, as well as mental health nurses, psychologists, social workers and occupational therapists"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Section 1. The social, genetic and environmental aspects. 1. Surviving their lives: women's mental health in context / Jennie Williams and Gilli Watson ; 2. Ethnic and cultural effects on mental healthcare for women / Dawn Edge and Dinesh Bhugra ; 3. Women as caregivers / Peter V. Rabins ; 4. Maternal caregiving, oxytocin and mental illness / Kathryn M. Abel and Alya Elmadih ; 5. Genetic, epigenetic and gene-environment interactions: impact on the pathogenesis of mental illnesses in women / Anthony P. Auger ; 6. Developmental disorders in girls: focus on autism spectrum disorders / Bernice Knight, Peter Carpenter and Dheeraj Rai ; 7. Pubertal development and the emergence of the gender gap in affective disorders: a developmental and evolutionary synthesis / Nicholas B. Allen, Melissa D. Latham, Anna Barrett, Lisa Sheeber and Betsy Davis -- Section 2. Hormonal and reproductive effects. 8. The effects of hormones on the female brain across the lifespan / Michael C. Craig, Ester di Giacomo and Carmine M. Pariante ; 9. Sexual, reproductive and antenatal care of women with mental illness / Angelika Wieck and Kathryn M. Abel ; 10. Mood, anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorders in pregnancy and the postpartum period: phenomenology and epidemiology / Simone N. Vigod, Anne Buist and Meir Steiner ; 11. Pharmacological treatment of mental health problems in pregnancy and lactation / Angelika Wieck and Margareta Reis -- Section 3. Violence, self-harm and substance misuse in women. 12. Borderline personality disorder: sex differences / Andrew M. Chanen and Katherine Thompson ; 13. Women offenders and mental health / Sandra Flynn, Naomi Humber, Annie Bartlett and Jenny Shaw ; 14. Domestic violence and women's mental health / Roxane Agnew-Davies ; 15. Women and addiction /Sally Marlow and Emily Finch -- Section 4. Depression, anxiety and related disorders. 16. Body image disorders in women / Serafino G. Mancuso, Andrea Phillipou, Susan L. Rossell and David J. Castle ; 17. Post-traumatic stress disorder in women / Darryl Wade, Susan Fletcher, Jessica Carty and Mark Creamer ; 18. Anxiety disorders in women / Kimberly A. Yonkers, Heather Howell, Katherine Sevar and David J. Castle ; 19. Depression: special issues in women / John Kelly and Timothy G. Dinan ; 20. Anxiety and depression in women in old age / Robert C. Baldwin and Jane Garner -- Section 5. Psychotic disorders in women. 21. Bipolar disorders: special issues for women / Shaila Misri, Jasmin Abizadeh and Arjun Nanda ; 22. Women and schizophrenia / Kathryn M. Abel, Jill M. Goldstein, Nicky Stanley and David J. Castle ; 23. Treating women with schizophrenia / Shubulade Smith and Fiona Gaughran ; 24. Psychotic disorders in women in later life / Eleanor Curran, Nicola T. Lautenschlager and David J. Castle ; 25. Dementia in women / Cynthia A. Munro and Susan W. Lehmann. |
| Subject |
Women -- Mental health.
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Mental illness -- Treatment.
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Mental Disorders -- etiology.
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Women's Health.
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Mental Disorders -- therapy.
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Women -- psychology.
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Socioeconomic Factors.
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Mental illness -- Treatment.
(OCoLC)fst01016606
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Women -- Mental health.
(OCoLC)fst01176848
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| Added Author |
Castle, David J., editor.
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Abel, Kathryn, 1961- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781107622692 (paperback ; alk. paper) |
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1107622697 (paperback ; alk. paper) |
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