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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.
Mood and anxiety disorders in women represent an increasingly
important area of research and treatment development. The authors
take a broad biopsychosocial and developmental approach to the
issues, beginning with anxiety disorders in adolescence and
progressing through the life phases of women to menopause and old
age. All the disorders are covered, from anxiety and borderline
personality disorder to stress and late-life depression. Particular
attention is paid to questions of vulnerability; epidemiological
and clinical evidence showing gender differences in such disorders;
aetiological explanations in terms of biological (including
hormonal) as well as psychosocial parameters, and treatment
implications.
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.
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