Oxford textbook of women and mental health
By: edited by Dora Kohen.
Contributors: Kohen, Dora, 1946-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780199214365
Subjects: Women -- Mental health -- Textbooks; Mental Disorders; Women's Health; Mental Health
Genres: Textbooks
Other titles: Textbook of women and mental health
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Foreword, Professor John Cox Fundamental Aspects: Women and Mental Health 1. 1. Stigma, women and mental health;, Professor Levent Kuey 2. Gender-based violence and mental health, Dr Neerja Chowdhary 3. 3. Mind the Gender Gap: Mental Health in a post-Feminist context, Professor David Pilgrim 4. Women, ethnicity and mental healt, Dr M Nasser 3. 1. The Gender Gap in Mental Health: Some competing hypothesis, Professor David Pilgrim 4. Women, ethnicity and mental health, Dr M Nasser 5. Biological sex differences relevant to mental health, Dr Peter Fitzgerald 6. Lesbianism and mental health, Dr Ronald Doctor 7. Attachment and women's mental health, Dr R Doctor 8. Maternal Mental Health: an ethical base for good practice, Nora McClelland 9. Women as Carers, Dr Irene Cormac Clinical Aspects of mental illness in women 10. Anxiety Disorders in Women, Dr Jim Lucey 11. Depression in women, Dr Jona Lewin 12. Schizophrenia in Women, Prof essorA Riecher 13. Women with borderline personality Disorder: Aetiology, Assessment and Prognosis, Dr Sarah Majid 14. Borderline Personality Disorder in Women: Treatment Approaches, Dr Sarah Majid 15. Women in forensic institutions, Dr Lisa Wootton 16. The social care needs of women with mental illness, Dr Adil Akram Perinatal Psychiatric Disorders; title: 17. Perinatal psychiatric disorders, Dr J Lewin 18. Postnatal depression; Assessment, Treatment, Prognosis, Management (Role of health visitors, GP, family, EPDS), Nora Turjanski 19. Puerperal psychosis, Dr Ian Jones 20. Obstetric Liaison services, Dr Giles Berrisford 21. Psychiatric Mother and Baby Units, Dr Trevor Friedman Women and Substance Abuse 22. Women and Alcohol, Dr John Roche 23. Women and Drugs, Dr E Day Eating disorders 24. The socio-cultural and personal dimension of eating disorders, Dr M Nasser 25. Eating disorders: Recognition, Pathogenesis and phenomenology, classification Management and services for women with eating disorders, Dr R Palmer Special Clinical Topics 26. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Dr Jo Stubley 27. Self harm and suicide in women, Dr Judith Horrocks 28. Medically unexplained symptoms in Women, Professor Vedat Sar Parental Psychiatric disorders 29. Maternal stress, anxiety and depression during pregnancy: Effects on the fetus and the child, Professor V Glover 30. Depressed Mothers and their Children: Attachment Issues, Professor Antonia Bifulco 31. Women, Neglect and Abuse and the Consequences, P Moran Women and Learning Disability 32. Women with intellectual disability and mental health problems: the invisible victims, Dr McCarthy 33. Affective disorders in women with intellectual disabilities, Dr Jean O'Hara 34. Psychopharmacology in Women with Learning Disabilities, Professor Greg O'Brien Legislation and policy 35. Building on or Building in? The contribution of policy and the law to women's mental health, Professor Karen Newbigging 36. Afterword, Professor Mary Seeman.