Handbook of Women, Stress and Trauma

Name: Handbook of Women, Stress and Trauma
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ISBN: 9780415947428

ISBN-10: 0415947421

ISBN-13: 9780415947428

Edition: 2005

Authors: Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett

List price: $185.00

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Women are significantly more likely to experience certain types of stress and trauma, though not enough is currently available to counselors and social workers about how to assess and treat trauma-related issues in females. Women not only process information and react differently than males but are also affected by hormones and emotions differently. In addition, females face particular stresses at each developmental stage from the pressures of adolescence to childbearing to simultaneous mothering for children and aging parents. TheHandbook of Women, Stress and Traumafocuses on the stresses and traumas that are unique to the lives of women. It is the first text to merge research from the…

Book details

List price: $185.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/25/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.06" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Introduction : women's experiences of stress and trauma




Relational stress and trauma in the lives of girls and teens




Caught in the middle : stress in the lives of young adult women




Trauma associated with perinatal events : birth experience, prematurity, and childbearing loss




Stress and trauma in the lives of middle-aged and old women




Sexual violence in the lives of girls and women




Intimate partner violence : implications for women's physical and mental health




Abuse of elderly women in family relationships : another form of violence against women




Health issues associated with violence against women




The neurobiology of childhood sexual abuse in women with posttraumatic stress disorder




Stress and trauma in the lives of women of color




Stress and trauma in the lives of women with disabilities




Heterosexism and violence in the lives of lesbian women : implications for mental health