Comprehensive Women's Mental Health

A comprehensive, up-to-date and evidence-based review of women's mental health, written by leading experts, for mental health clinicians.

David J. Castle (Edited by), Kathryn M. Abel (Edited by)

9781107622692, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 7 March 2016

369 pages, 6 b/w illus. 16 tables
24.5 x 19 x 1.8 cm, 0.81 kg

This is a comprehensive, up-to-date and evidence-based review of women's mental health. It starts by considering the social and cultural contexts of women's lives today before addressing how developmental aspects pertain to mental health, exploring biological, evolutionary and psychosocial parameters. The heart of the book contains a series of chapters with a clinical emphasis. These aim to elucidate causal mechanisms for gender differences in mental disorder considering hormonal and environmental influences. The therapeutic implications of gender are then addressed in some detail, with a focus on inter-partner and other forms of violence, substance misuse, personality disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. The book concludes with a detailed section considering psychosis and its sequelae in women and their families. The book's scope is intended to be broad, and it is aimed at a clinical audience including psychiatrists and general physicians, as well as mental health nurses, psychologists, social workers and occupational therapists.

Preface
Part I. The Social, Genetic and Developmental Context: 1. Surviving their lives: women's mental health in context Jennie Williams and Gilli Watson
2. Ethnic and cultural effects on mental healthcare for women Dawn Edge and Dinesh Bhugra
3. Women as caregivers Peter V. Rabins
4. Maternal caregiving, oxytocin and mental illness Kathryn M. Abel and Alya Elmadih
5. Genetic, epigenetic and gene-environment interactions: impact on the pathogenesis of mental illnesses in women Anthony P. Auger
6. Developmental disorders in girls: focus on autism spectrum disorders Bernice Knight, Peter Carpenter and Dheeraj Rai
7. Pubertal development and the emergence of the gender gap in affective disorders: a developmental and evolutionary synthesis Nicholas B. Allen, Melissa D. Latham, Anna Barrett, Lisa Sheeber and Betsy Davis
Part II. Hormonal and Reproductive Effects: 8. The effects of hormones on the female brain across the lifespan Michael C. Craig, Ester di Giacomo and Carmine M. Pariante
9. Sexual, reproductive and antenatal care of women with mental illness Angelika Wieck and Kathryn M. Abel
10. Mood, anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorders in pregnancy and the postpartum period: phenomenology and epidemiology Simone N. Vigod, Anne Buist and Meir Steiner
11. Pharmacological treatment of mental health problems in pregnancy and lactation Angelika Wieck and Margareta Reis
Part III. Violence, Self-Harm and Substance Misuse in Women: 12. Borderline personality disorder: sex differences Andrew M. Chanen and Katherine Thompson
13. Women offenders and mental health Sandra Flynn, Naomi Humber, Annie Bartlett and Jenny Shaw
14. Domestic violence and women's mental health Roxane Agnew-Davies
15. Women and addiction Sally Marlow and Emily Finch
Part IV. Depression, Anxiety and Related Disorders: 16. Body image disorders in women Serafino G. Mancuso, Andrea Phillipou, Susan L. Rossell and David J. Castle
17. Post-traumatic stress disorder in women Darryl Wade, Susan Fletcher, Jessica Carty and Mark Creamer
18. Anxiety disorders in women Kimberly A. Yonkers, Heather Howell, Katherine Sevar and David J. Castle
19. Depression: special issues in women John Kelly and Timothy G. Dinan
20. Anxiety and depression in women in old age Robert C. Baldwin and Jane Garner
Part V. Psychotic Disorders in Women: 21. Bipolar disorders: special issues for women Shaila Misri, Jasmin Abizadeh and Arjun Nanda
22. Women and schizophrenia Kathryn M. Abel, Jill M. Goldstein, Nicky Stanley and David J. Castle
23. Treating women with schizophrenia Shubulade Smith and Fiona Gaughran
24. Psychotic disorders in women in later life Eleanor Curran, Nicola T. Lautenschlager and David J. Castle
25. Dementia in women Cynthia A. Munro and Susan W. Lehmann
Index.

Subject Areas: Psychiatry [MMH], Mental health services [MBPK], Psychology of gender [JMG], Gender studies: women [JFSJ1]