Oxford Textbook Of Women And Mental Health

Description:
Gender and mental health is a growing field in psychiatry and in the last three to four decades, many different aspects of women's mental health have bloomed. Researchers have gained a better understanding of the psychological, social, and cultural aspects of mental health problems in women, and it is possible to describe, classify, and circumscribe different diagnoses as they appear in the female gender. Epidemiological data has also shown an increased frequency in different clinical aspects of many psychiatric disorders. In addition, research into areas including eating disorders, perinatal, psychiatric disorders, and the long term effects of abuse have helped us to appreciate the societal, parental, and personal consequences of mental health problems. The Oxford Textbook of Women and Mental Health is dedicated to fundamental aspects in women's mental health. Part one of the text covers topics from women's health as a global issue to different medical psychological theories, giving an overview of the role of gender in mental health. The second part of the book 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 of the text 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.

Table of Contents:
Foreword; FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS: WOMEN AND MENTAL HEALTH; 1. 1. Stigma, women and mental health;; 2. Gender-based violence and mental health; 3. 3. Mind the Gender Gap: Mental Health in a post-Feminist context; 4. Women, ethnicity and mental healt; 3. 1. The Gender Gap in Mental Health: Some competing hypothesis; 4. Women, ethnicity and mental health; 5. Biological sex differences relevant to mental health; 6. Lesbianism and mental health; 7. Attachment and women's mental health; 8. Maternal Mental Health: an ethical base for good practice; 9. Women as Carers; CLINICAL ASPECTS OF MENTAL ILLNESS IN WOMEN; 10. Anxiety Disorders in Women; 11. Depression in women; 12. Schizophrenia in Women; 13. Women with borderline personality Disorder: Aetiology, Assessment and Prognosis; 14. Borderline Personality Disorder in Women: Treatment Approaches; 15. Women in forensic institutions; 16. The social care needs of women with mental illness; PERINATAL PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS; 17. Perinatal psychiatric disorders; 18. Postnatal depression; Assessment, Treatment, Prognosis, Management (Role of health visitors, GP, family, EPDS); 19. Puerperal psychosis; 20. Obstetric Liaison services; 21. Psychiatric Mother and Baby Units; WOMEN AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE; 22. Women and Alcohol; 23. Women and Drugs; EATING DISORDERS; 24. The socio-cultural and personal dimension of eating disorders; 25. Eating disorders: Recognition, Pathogenesis and phenomenology, classification Management and services for women with eating disorders; SPECIAL CLINICAL TOPICS; 26. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; 27. Self harm and suicide in women; 28. Medically unexplained symptoms in Women; PARENTAL PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS; 29. Maternal stress, anxiety and depression during pregnancy: Effects on the fetus and the child; 30. Depressed Mothers and their Children: Attachment Issues; 31. Women, Neglect and Abuse and the Consequences; WOMEN AND LEARNING DISABILITY; 32. Women with intellectual disability and mental health problems: the invisible victims; 33. Affective disorders in women with intellectual disabilities; 34. Psychopharmacology in Women with Learning Disabilities; LEGISLATION AND POLICY; 35. Building on or Building in? The contribution of policy and the law to women's mental health; 36. Afterword