Oxford textbook of women and mental health / edited by Dora Kohen.

Date:
[2010]
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Textbook of women and mental health

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"The Oxford Textbook of Women and Mental Health brings a balanced understanding of different aspects of gender and mental health. Exploring issues covering psychological, social, and cultural aspects of mental health problems, it looks at epidemiological data that shows increased frequency in different clinical aspects of many psychiatric disorders, the biological and endocrinological concomitants of mental health, and eating disorders, perinatal psychiatric disorders, and the long term effects of abuse - helping readers to appreciate the societal, parental, and personal consequences of mental health problems. Part one is dedicated to fundamental aspects in women's mental health. It covers topics from women's health as a global issue to different medical psychological theories, giving an overview of gender in mental health. The second examines clinical aspects of women and mental health. In part three, special clinical topics such as PTSD, self-harm, menopause, violence and its management are investigated. Part four focuses on parental psychiatric disorders, clarifying how mental health and behavioural problems in children can be a marker or consequence of maternal distress. The final two parts look at the topics of women and disability, and legislation and policy. A book of exceptional scope and depth, it will be essential for all those health professionals involved in managing mental health problems in women"--Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2010]

Physical description

xvi, 333 pages : black and white illustrations ; 26 cm.

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Contents

Fundamental aspects: women and mental health -- Stigma, women, and mental health -- Gender-based violence and mental health -- Mind the gender gap: mental health in a post-feminist context -- Women, ethnicity, and mental health -- Biological sex differences relevant to mental health -- Lesbianism and mental health -- Attachment and women's mental health -- Maternal mental health: an ethical base for good practice -- Women as carers -- Clinical aspects: women and mental health -- Clinical aspects of mental illness in women -- Anxiety disorders in women -- Depression in women -- Schizophrenia in women -- Women with borderline personality disorder: aetiology, assessment, and prognosis -- Borderline personality disorder in women: treatment approaches -- Women in forensic institutions -- Social care needs of women with mental illness -- Perinatal psychiatric disorders -- Perinatal psychiatric disorders -- Postnatal depression -- Puerperal psychosis -- Obstetric liaison services -- Psychiatric mother and baby units -- Women and substance abuse -- Women and alcohol -- Women and drugs -- Eating disorders -- Sociocultural and personal dimension of eating disorders -- Eating disorders: recognition, pathogenesis, classification, management, and services for women with eating disorders -- Special clinical topics -- Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Self-harm and suicide in women -- Medically unexplained symptoms in women -- Parental psychiatric disorders -- Maternal stress, anxiety, and depression during pregnancy: effects on the fetus and the child -- Depressed mothers and their children: attachment issues -- Women, neglect and abuse, and the consequences -- Women and learning disability -- Women with intellectual disability and mental health problems: the invisible victims -- Affective disorders in women with intellectual disabilities -- Psychopharmacology in women with learning disabilities -- Legislation and policy -- Building on or building in? The contribution of policy and the law to women's mental health.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    Medical Collection
    WM140 2010K79o
    		Open shelves

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  • 9780199214365
  • 0199214360