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Handbook of Girls' and Women's Psychological Health

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ISBN-10: 019516203X

ISBN-13: 9780195162035

Edition: 2005

Authors: Carol D. Goodheart, Judy Worell, Judith Worell

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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 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 behavior impacts 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…    
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Book details

List price: $69.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/1/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 528
Size: 7.25" wide x 10.00" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.486
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Gender and Psychological Health
An Integrated View of Girls' and Women's Health: Psychology, Physiology, and Society
Risks to Healthy Development: The Somber Planes of Life
Pathways to Healthy Development: Sources of Strength and Empowerment
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
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
The Psychotherapeutic Relationship as a Positive and Powerful Resource for Girls and Women
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
Adolescent Girls' Health in the Context of Peer and Community Relationships
From Girlhood to Womanhood: Multiple Transitions in Context
Adults: Balancing
Women's Career Development
Love, Intimacy, And Partners
Women's 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, Susan Krauss Whitbourne
Physical Health and Illness in older women
Older Women and Security
Bereavement
Women's Issues at the End of Life, Dolores Gallagher-Thompson
Positive Aging: Reconstructing the Life Course
Special Problems and Resources
Legal Issues Influencing Girls' and Women's 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