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Handbook of Girls' and Women's Psychological Health

Handbook of Girls' and Women's Psychological Health

9780195162035
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This book integrates the role of gender in girls and womens 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. The interaction between physical, psychological, and cultural factors is integrated within each period of development. The book emphasizes how gender socialization of female development and behaviorimpacts both self-evaluation and identity processes within various cultural groups. The book also discusses the social roles that girls and women reflectively adopt. Lastly, it recognizes that externally induced risks such as poverty, interpersonal abuse, and violence present challenges to healthydevelopment.
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OUP USA
85293
9780195162035
9780195162035

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Publication date
2005
Issue number
1
Cover
hard cover
Pages count
528
Dimensions (mm)
188 x 260
Weight (g)
1134
  • Acknowledgments; Foreword - Norine G. Johnson; PART I GENDER AND PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH; An Integrated View of Girls and Womens Health: Psychology, Physiology, and Society; Risks to Healthy Development: The Somber Planes of Life; Pathways to Healthy Development: Sources of Strength and Empowerment; PART II RISKS AND STRENGTHS ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN; Problems and Risks; Assessment and Gender; Mood Disturbance Across the Lifespan; Anxiety Disturbance in Girls and Women; Body Image; Serious Emotional Disturbance and Serious Mental Illness; Violence Against Girls and Women: An Integrative Developmental Perspective; Physical or Systemic Disabilities; Trauma in the lives of Girls and Women; Substance Use and Abuse by Girls and Women; Poor Women and Girls in a Wealthy Nation; Women and Suicide; Strengths and Resources; Coping in Adolescent Girls and Women; Self-esteem; Resilience and Empowerment; Subjective Well-Being - Sonja Lyubomirsky and Rene Dickerhoof; The Sense of Entitlement: Implication for Gender Equality and Psychological Well Being; Balanced Living through Self-Care; To Your Sexual Health! Incorporating Sexuality into the Health Perspective; Women and Giving; Women and Relationships; Healthy Environments for Youth and Families; ; PART III PHASES OF DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE LIFE SPAN; Children and Adolescents: Awakenings; Gender Role and Gender Identity Development; The Interplay of Physical and Psychosocial Development; The Family Environment: Where Gender Role Socialization Begins; Girls and Academic Success: Changing Patterns of Academic Achievement; Gender and Schooling: Progress and Persistent Barriers; ; From Girlhood to Womanhood: Multiple Transitions in Context; Adults: Balancing; Womens Career Development; Love, Intimacy, And Partners; Womens Reproductive Health: Issues, Findings and Controversies; The Mixed Messages of Motherhood; Family and Work Balance; Midlife Transitions; Older Adults: Winding Down and Summing Up; Aging and Identity: How Women Face Later Life Transitions; Physical Health and Illness in older women; Older Women and Security; Bereavement; Womens Issues at the End of Life; Positive Aging: Reconstructing the Life Course; PART IV SPECIAL PROBLEMS AND RESOURCES; Legal Issues Influencing Girls and Womens Psychological Health; Adaptation of Immigrant Girls and Women; Psychopharmacotherapy and Women: Issues for Consideration; Survivors of Male Violence: Research and Training Initiatives to Facilitate Recovery from Depression and PTSD; An Overview of Policies that Impact the Psychological Well-Being of Girls and Women; CONCLUSION; Looking Forward;
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