Handbook of girls' and women's psychological health
By: Judith Worell, Carol D. Goodheart, editors.
Contributors: Worell, Judith, 1928-; Goodheart, Carol D.
Series: Oxford series in clinical psychology
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780195162035
Subjects: Women -- Psychology; Women -- Health and hygiene; Women -- Mental health; Girls -- Psychology; Girls -- Health and hygiene; Girls -- Mental health
Other titles: Honor with Books Program.
Description: "The Handbook of Girls' and Women's Psychological Health presents a contemporary view of psychological health for girls and women that integrates psychology, physiology, society, and culture. A range of 50 chapters integrates current research, scholarship, and practice on the risks and protective factors that influence women's health and well-being across the life span. Within and biopsychosocial framework, the Handbook explores mind and body, risks and resilience, research and interventions, cultural diversity, and public policy." "This Handbook underscores the importance of gender in the lives of girls and women developmentally across significant phases of the life span. Considering the importance of cultural context, this book illustrates how gender socialization in female development and behavior affects self-evaluation, identity processes, and the social roles that girls and women adopt. Its chapters illustrate how externally induced risks such as poverty, discrimination, and violence present challenges to healthy development. Significantly, the chapters also draw attention to long overlooked and compelling strengths and capacities that provide a firm basis for growth and health."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: "This book is given by Mom (Cindy) in honor of my son, Nicholas Massey"--Bookplate.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. GENDER AND PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH; title: An integrated view of girls' and women's health: psychology, physiology, and society / Carol D. Goodheart; title: Risks to healthy development: the somber planes of life / Cheryl Brown Travis; title: Pathways to healthy development: sources of strength and empowerment / Judith Worell; title: pt. II. RISKS AND STRENGTHS ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN : Problems and risks; title: Assessment and gender / Marcia C. Linn, Cathy Kessel; title: Mood disturbance across the life span / Valerie E. Whiffen, Natasha Demidenko; title: Anxiety disturbance in girls and women / Wendy K. Silverman, Rona Carter; title: Body image / Linda Smolak; title: Serious emotional disturbance and serious mental illness / Diane T. Marsh; title: Violence against girls and women: an integrative  developmental perspective / Jacquelyn W. White, James M. Frabutt; title: Physical or systemic disabilities / Rhoda Olkin; title: Trauma in the lives of girls and women / Janis Sanchez-Hucles, Kimberly Gamble; title: Substance use and abuse by girls and women / Lula A. Beatty, Cora Lee Wetherington, Dionne J. Jones, Adele B. Roman; title: Poor women and girls in a wealthy nation / Deborah Belle, Lisa Dodson; title: Women and suicide / Lillian M. Range; title: Strengths and resources.  Coping in adolescent girls and women / Patricia A. Bennett, Susan H. McDaniel; title: Self-esteem / Oksana Malanchuk, Jacquelynne S. Eccles; title: Resilience and empowerment / Virginia E. O'Leary, Jeshmin Bhaju; title: Subjective well-being / Sonja Lyubomirsky, Rene Dickerhoof; title: The sense of entitlement: implications for gender equality and psychological well-being / Vanessa L. McGann, Janice M. Steil; title: Balanced living through self-care / Carol Williams-Nickelson; title: To your sexual health! : incorporating sexuality into the health perspective / Lucia F. O'Sullivan, M.C. McCrudden, Deborah L. Tolman; title: Women and giving / Michele Harway, Roberta L. Nutt; title: Women and relationships / Mary M. Brabeck, Kalina M. Brabeck; title: Healthy environments for youth and families / Karen Fraser Wyche; title: The psychotherapeutic relationship as a positive and powerful resource for girls and women / Lucia Albino Gilbert, Lisa K. Kearney; title: pt. III. PHASES OF DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE LIFE SPAN.  Children and adolescents: awakenings; title: Gender role and gender identity development / Susan A. Basow; title: The interplay of physical and psychosocial development / Annette M. La Greca, Eleanor Race Mackey, Karen Bearman Miller; title: The family environment: where gender role socialization begins / Phyllis Bronstein; title: Girls and academic success: changing patterns of academic achievement / Diane F. Halpern; title: Gender and schooling: progress and persistent barriers / Judith L. Meece, Kathryn Scantlebury; title: Adolescent girls' health in the context of peer and community relationships / Bridget M. Reynolds, Rena L. Repetti; title: From girlhood to womanhood: multiple transitions in context / Niva Piran, Erin Ross; title: Adults: balancing.   Women's career development / Nancy E. Betz; title: Love, intimacy, and partners / Susan S. Hendrick; title: Women's reproductive health: issues, findings, and controversies / Linda J. Beckman; title: The mixed messages of motherhood / Joy K. Rice, Nicole Else-Quest; title: Family and work balance / Faye J. Crosby, Laura Sabattini; title: Midlife transitions / Claire A. Etaugh, Judith S. Bridges; title: Older adults: winding down and summing up.  Aging and identity: how women face later life transitions / Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Karyn M. Skultety; title: Physical health and illness in older women / S. Deborah Majerovitz; title: Older women and security / Bonnie Markham; title: Bereavement / Deborah Carr, Jung-Hwa Ha; title: Women's issues at the end of life / Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, Jennifer Dillinger, Heather L. Gray, Veronica Cardenas, Lani Singer, Shannon Hsu; title: Positive aging: reconstructing the life course / Mary M. Gergen, Kenneth J. Gergen; title: pt. IV. SPECIAL PROBLEMS AND RESOURCES.  Legal issues influencing girls' and women's psychological health / Lenore E. A. Walker; title: Adaptation of immigrant girls and women / Melba J.T. Vasquez, Ay Ling Han, Cynthia de las Fuentes; title: Psychopharmacotherapy and women: issues for consideration / Debra Lina Dunivin; title: Survivors of male violence: research and training initiatives to facilitate recovery from depression and posttraumatic stress disorder / Veronica M. Herrera, Mary P. Koss, Jennifer Bailey, Nicole P. Yuan, Erika L. Lichter; title: An overview of policies that impact the psychological well-being of girls and women / Sherry Glied, Sharon Kofman; title: pt. V: CONCLUSION.   Afterword / Carol D. Goodheart, Judith Worell.