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Handbook of girls' and women's psychological health
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- Summary
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This book integrates the role of gender in girls' and women's development across the life span, looking specifically at internal and external vulnerabilities and risks and the protective or support...
This book integrates the role of gender in girls' and women's development across the life span, looking specifically at internal and external vulnerabilities and risks and the protective or supportive factors that facilitate effective coping, positive growth, strength and resilience.
Details
- Creator
- Judith Worell, Carol D. Goodheart, editors
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (529 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9780197735626, 0197735622, 9781280838453, 1280838450, 9781423733829, 1423733827, 9780198036685, 019803668X, 9781602569850, 1602569851, 019516203X
- OCLC
- ocn173511661, ocn935262001, on1406786117
- Previously issued in print: 2005.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Foreword; Contents; Contributors; 1 An Integrated View of Girls' and Women's Health: Psychology, Physiology, and Society; 2 Risks to Healthy Development: The Somber Planes of Life; 3 Pathways to Healthy Development: Sources of Strength and Empowerment; 4 Assessment and Gender; 5 Mood Disturbance Across the Life Span; 6 Anxiety Disturbance in Girls and Women; 7 Body Image; 8 Serious Emotional Disturbance and Serious Mental Illness; 9 Violence Against Girls and Women: An Integrative Developmental Perspective; 10 Physical or Systemic Disabilities; 11 Trauma in the Lives of Girls and Women
- 12 Substance Use and Abuse by Girls and Women13 Poor Women and Girls in a Wealthy Nation; 14 Women and Suicide; 15 Coping in Adolescent Girls and Women; 16 Self-Esteem; 17 Resilience and Empowerment; 18 Subjective Well-Being; 19 The Sense of Entitlement: Implications for Gender Equality and Psychological Well-Being; 20 Balanced Living Through Self-Care; 21 To Your Sexual Health! Incorporating Sexuality Into the Health Perspective; 22 Women and Giving; 23 Women and Relationships; 24 Healthy Environments for Youth and Families
- 25 The Psychotherapeutic Relationship as a Positive and Powerful Resource for Girls and Women26 Gender Role and Gender Identity Development; 27 The Interplay of Physical and Psychosocial Development; 28 The Family Environment: Where Gender Role Socialization Begins; 29 Girls and Academic Success: Changing Patterns of Academic Achievement; 30 Gender and Schooling: Progress and Persistent Barriers; 31 Adolescent Girls' Health in the Context of Peer and Community Relationships; 32 From Girlhood to Womanhood: Multiple Transitions in Context; 33 Women's Career Development
- 34 Love, Intimacy, and Partners35 Women's Reproductive Health: Issues, Findings, and Controversies; 36 The Mixed Messages of Motherhood; 37 Family and Work Balance; 38 Midlife Transitions; 39 Aging and Identity: How Women Face Later Life Transitions; 40 Physical Health and Illness in Older Women; 41 Older Women and Security; 42 Bereavement; 43 Women's Issues at the End of Life; 44 Positive Aging: Reconstructing the Life Course; 45 Legal Issues Influencing Girls' and Women's Psychological Health; 46 Adaptation of Immigrant Girls and Women
- 47 Psychopharmacotherapy and Women: Issues for Consideration48 Survivors of Male Violence: Research and Training Initiatives to Facilitate Recovery From Depression and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; 49 An Overview of Policies That Impact the Psychological Well-Being of Girls and Women; 50 Afterword; Index
Subjects
- Women -- Psychology.
- Women -- Health and hygiene.
- Women -- Mental health.
- Girls -- Psychology.
- Girls -- Health and hygiene.
- Girls -- Mental health.
- Adolescent Psychology.
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- Child Psychology.
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- Women -- psychology.
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- Women's Health.
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