Contemporary Topics in Women's Mental Health Global perspectives in a changing society
, by Chandra, Prabha S.; Herrman, Helen; Fisher, Jane E.; Kastrup, Marianne; Niaz, Unaiza; Rondon, Marta; Okasha, Ahmed- ISBN: 9780470754115 | 0470754117
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 11/2/2009
Her main research contributions in the areas of women’s mental health have been in perinatal psychiatry, psychosomatic obsetrics and gynecology and the role of violence in women with mental illness. Prof. Chandra has received several national awards for research in womens mental health. She has been a member of the Advisory group on HIV Behavioral Research of the Indian Council of Medical Research and has also served as a Temporary Advisor to the WHO and UNAIDS. She has about 90 publications in the above areas of research and has edited several books and training manuals.
Helen Herrman is Director of Academic Programs at the Australian International Health Institute, University of Melbourne, and Professor in Public Health and Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne. From 1992 to 2005, she was Professor and Director of Psychiatry in St. Vincent's Mental Health Service (SVMHS) Melbourne. She is Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for research and training in mental health at the University of Melbourne and St Vincent's Health. In 2005 she was elected as Secretary for Publications and member of the Executive Committee of the WPA. She is Vice President of the International Federation of Psychiatric Epidemiology. Her interests include mental health promotion, the assessment of outcomes and quality of life for people with mental illnesses, the link between mental health and HIV infection, and the delivery of mental health services.
Marianne Kastrup was Medical Director of the Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims, Copenhagen (1997-2001) and is now Head of the Centre Transcultural Psychiatry, Psychiatric. Dept. Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark. She is the Zonal Representative for the WPA and has served on various committees for both the WPA and the European Association of Psychiatry.
Marta Rondon, assistant professor at Cayetano Heredia University, is a Founder of the Peruvian Association for Women's Mental Health and was Chair of the Section of Women's Mental Health of the World Psychiatric Association. She was the first woman to be President of the Peruvian Psychiatric Association and is a recipient of the Medal of Honor of the Peruvian College of Physicians.. Formerly Director General of the Office for Older People, Ministry of Women and Social Development in Peru, she currently sits on the National Committee on Mental Health and the High Level Commission on Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Peruvian College of Physicians. Marta works at the Edgardo Rebagliati Martins Hopsital, where she supervises services for chronic psychiatric patients and sits on the hospital's committee against gender based violence.
Dr Unaiza Niaz is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist who is the Director of The Psychiatric Clinic & Stress Research Center, Karachi. She is the President & Founder Member of the Pakistan Society of Traumatic Stress Studies, a Life Member of The Pakistan Psychiatric Society, and was previously Vice President and Secretary General. She is a life member of the World Federation of Mental Health, American Psychiatric Association and a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, London. She trained at The Royal Free Hospital, the Tavistock Clinic, Hampstead, London and The Johns Hopkins University, USA. Her research interests are Stress management, Women’s Issues, Medical Health Policy and Post- Graduate Education. She has numerous scientific publications in international journals and has authored several books: Emerging Images of Pakistani Women, Stress Management and The Psychosocial Profile of Pakistani Women, published by Karachi University, and a landmark Monograph on Womens Mental Health In Pakistan. She has also edited Medical Ethics in Contemporary Era and Pakistan Earthquake—International Perspectives on Handling Psycho-Trauma. Presently, she is Co-Chair of the WPA Section on Women’s Mental Health and an Advisor to the National Commission on the Status of Women—Pakistan.
Ahmed Okasha is Professor and Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Training and Research in Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry – Ain Shams University, Cairo. He is President of the Egyptian Psychiatric Association and of the Egyptian Society of Biological Psychiatry, as well as a Past President of the World Psychiatric Association. Professor Okasha is on the Editorial Advisory Board of 20 International Scientific Journals, an Honorary Fellow of The American College of Psychiatrists (2002) and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh, 1973) and of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (London, 1973).
Jane Fisher
Deputy Director and Coordinator of International Programs
Psychotic disorders and bipolar affective disorder BPAD | |
Psychotic disorders in women | |
Schizophrenia | |
Bipolar disorder | |
Other psychoses | |
Special issues in women with severe mental illness | |
Depression and anxiety among women | |
Introduction | |
Epidemiology | |
Transcultural aspect of affective disturbances in Sub-Saharan Africa | |
Treatment effects | |
Sexual differences in depression and anxiety disorders: biological determinants | |
Sexual differences in depression and anxiety disorders: social factors | |
Mood and anxiety disorders across lifespan in women | |
Pregnancy | |
Motherhood | |
Conclusion | |
Somatisation and dissociation | |
Introduction | |
Somatisation - definitions and concept | |
Dissociation - definitions and concept | |
The diagnosis and classification of somatoform and dissociative disorders | |
The neurobiology of somatisation and dissociation | |
Psychological factors | |
Conversion disorder | |
Hypochondriasis | |
Dissociative disorders | |
Conclusions | |
Eating disorders | |
Introduction | |
Risk factors and pathogenesis | |
Distribution | |
Presentation, assessment, diagnosis and engagement | |
Treatment and management | |
Conclusion | |
Suicidality in women Gergö | |
Definitions | |
Epidemiology | |
Suicidality and mental disorders and risk | |
Suicide prevention | |
Alcohol and substance abuse | |
Introduction | |
Genetics of alcohol and drug abuse | |
Burden of the problem and patterns of drinking | |
Alcohol and drug abuse, risky sexual behaviour and HIV vulnerability | |
Stigma, women and alcohol and drug abuse | |
Health consequences | |
Social and economic consequences | |
Interventions | |
Challenges | |
Research | |
Recommendations | |
Conclusions | |
Psychiatric consequences of trauma in women | |
Introduction | |
What types of traumata are more common among women? | |
How do women respond to trauma? | |
What are the trauma related risk factors? | |
Which mental disorders are related to trauma? | |
Future directions | |
Voices of consumers - women with mental illness share their experiences | |
'Ni Tagibebu' - I will change my lifestyle | |
Determined to go against the odds | |
Brilliant madness - a narrative by a young woman from India who is recovering from mental illness | |
From illness to purpose and recovery | |
Conclusions | |
Mental aspects of pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period | |
Mental health and maternal mortality | |
Mental health and antenatal morbidity | |
Depression in pregnancy | |
Anxiety in pregnancy | |
Cultural preferences and mental health in pregnancy | |
Inflicted violence and mental health in pregnancy | |
Mental health and postpartum morbidity | |
Postpartum blues or mild transient mood disturbance | |
Postpartum psychotic illness | |
Postpartum depression | |
Psychosocial risk factors for postpartum depression | |
Infant factors and maternal mental health | |
Cultural specificity of postpartum mood disturbance | |
Maternal mental health, infant development and the mother-infant relationship | |
Prevention and treatment of maternal mental health problems | |
Summary | |
Psychological issues and reproductive health conditions: an interface | |
Introduction | |
Infertility: a psychosocial appraisal | |
The psychological implications of hysterectomy | |
Gynaecological infections | |
Conclusions | |
Menopause and women's mental health: the need for a multidimensional approach | |
Introduction | |
Social, cultural and contextual factors | |
Variations in symptoms and symptom patterns | |
The research evidence | |
Is menopause a time of increased risk for women's mental health? | |
The relationship between menopause and depression in midlife | |
The need for a life course perspective | |
Methodological difficulties | |
Therapeutic approaches in mid life | |
Conclusion | |
Ethics in psychiatric research among women | |
The scientific imperative to include women in psychiatric research | |
The ethical challenges of psychiatric research | |
Unique challenges of psychiatric research in women | |
Summary | |
Integrating mental health into women's health and primary healthcare: the case of Chile | |
Introduction | |
Integrating mental health into primary healthcare | |
Integrating mental health into women's health | |
Service settings for gender sensitive psychiatric care: children and adolescents | |
Gender sensitive care for adult women | |
Gender sensitive and informed mental healthcare: basic strategies | |
Principles of gender sensitive care | |
Characteristics of gender sensitive services | |
Psychopharmacology | |
History of psychopharmocology | |
Ethics | |
Sources and interpretation of data | |
Women in clinical trials | |
Pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics in women | |
Psychotropic treatments in women | |
Treatment of postpartum disorders | |
Women and disasters | |
Wars and women's mental health | |
Natural disasters and women | |
Conclusion | |
Intimate partner violence interventions | |
Mental health consequences of intimate partner violence on women | |
Victim focused interventions | |
Interventions with batterers of violence | |
Other intervention approaches | |
Conclusion | |
Migration and mental health in women: mental health action plan as a tool to increase communication between clinicians and policy makers | |
Definitions: mental health and health | |
Introduction | |
Risk factors | |
Resilience and coping | |
The impact of domestic violence on immigrant women's mental health | |
Access to mental healthcare services | |
The ADAPT model (adaptation and development after persecution and trauma) | |
The case of Mrs Aba, her family and the community | |
Theory of change logic: mental health action planning | |
Work and women's mental health | |
Introduction: A late but growing awareness | |
The job burnout | |
A higher risk for burnout | |
Work and women's mental health issues | |
Management issues | |
Conclusion | |
Globalisation and women's mental health: cutting edge information | |
Concept and process of globalisation | |
Gendered effects of globalisation | |
The impact of globalisation and liberalisation on women's health | |
Education and empowerment in women | |
United Nation and World Banks approach to women's education | |
The global and local intersection of feminisation in Muslim societies | |
Other impacts of globalisation | |
Internet addiction | |
Mental health issues related to the use of Internet and mobile phones in the developing countries | |
Recommendations to counteract negative effects of globalisation | |
The impact of culture on women's mental health | |
Introduction | |
Definitions | |
Epidemiological perspectives | |
Cultural aspects of stress | |
Diagnostic considerations | |
Cultural and social practices and their impact on mental health | |
Therapeutic issues | |
Perspectives | |
Female mutilation | |
Definition | |
Introduction | |
Historical background | |
Classification | |
Epidemiology of FGM | |
Physical complication of FGM | |
Psychological complication | |
Posttraumatic stress disorder and memory problems after FGM | |
Obstacles facing changing harmful social convention: female genital mutilation/cutting | |
The basic concept for FGM elimination: (The mental map for FGM) | |
Recommendations in countries where FGM is commonly practiced | |
Women's mental health in the concept of broad global policies | |
Definitions of health and the right to health made by the United Nations | |
The Fourth World Conference on Women Platform for Action (1995) | |
Conventions | |
Other international tools | |
New aid environment: sector wide approaches and the poverty reduction strategy paper | |
Conclusion | |
Families of origin as agents determining women's mental health | |
The impact of the family of origins perspectives about females on the growth of women | |
Impact of parenthood on women's mental health | |
Families, social change and women's mental health | |
The unpaid workload: gender discrimination in conceptualization and its impact on women's mental health | |
Maternal desire | |
Disenfranchised grief and motherhood | |
Fantasies of motherhood | |
Fantasies about the workload | |
Workload of motherhood | |
Occupational fatigue as a determinant of maternal mood? | |
Recognition and valuing of work and occupational satisfaction | |
Training and education for mothering | |
Presumptions about the contributions of others to the workload | |
Collegial relationships | |
Honouring the work of mothers in practice and policy | |
Foundations of human development: maternal care in the early years | |
Child development and human culture | |
Interactions and relationships | |
Maternal mental health and children's development | |
Maternal care | |
Implications for mental healthcare | |
Increased choices for women | |
The adverse impact of psychological aggression, coercion and violence in the intimate partner relationship on women's mental health | |
Prevalence and nature of intimate partner violence | |
Impact of intimate partner violence on general health | |
Mental health problems among women affected by intimate partner violence | |
Intimate partner violence, children and intergenerational patterns of abuse | |
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