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Women's Mental Health : a Life-Cycle Approach.

This volume brings together the latest research and clinical information on the wide variety of psychiatric problems that affect women in unique ways. The book is organized around the female life cycle-childhood, adolescence, adulthood, reproduction, and aging-and addresses specific disorders as the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Romans, Sarah E.
Otros Autores: Seeman, Mary V.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health, 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • WOMEN'S MENTAL HEALTH; Contents; Contributors; Preface; SECTION I Introduction; A Relational-Cultural Theory of Human Development: The Power of Connection; Chapter 1 Commentary; Women, Culture, and Development; Chapter 2 Commentary; Women and Stress; Chapter 3 Commentary; SECTION II Childhood; Depression and Anxiety in Girls; Gender Identity Disorder in Girls; Developmental Pathways of ADHD; Conduct Disorders in Girls; SECTION III Adolescence; Eating Disorders and Body Image in Adolescence; Prodromal Phase of Psychosis in Adolescent Women.
  • Substance Use, Abuse, and Dependence in Adolescent GirlsThe Origins of Emotion Regulation: Clinical Presentation and Neurobiology; SECTION IV Adulthood; Gender Differences in Depression and Anxiety Disorders; Substance Use and Abuse in Women; Psychotic Disorders in Women; Sexuality and Sexual Disorders in Women; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder; Blank Page; Living with Intellectual Disability; SECTION V Reproduction; Menstrual Cycles and Mental Health; Pregnancy and Mental Health; Postpartum and Its Mental Health Problems; Menopause and Mental Health; Mothering and Depression; SECTION VI Aging.
  • The Psychosocial Challenge for Older WomenAging and Cognition in Women; Vicissitudes and Disappointments: Loss and Illness in Late Life; SECTION VI Health Services for Women; Mental Health Services for Women; Blank Page; Women's Mental Health: From Hysteria to Human Rights; Mental Health Services for Women in Third World Countries and Immigrant Women; Index.