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Contemporary Topics in Women's Mental Health: Global Perspectives in a Changing Society considers both the mental health and psychiatric disorders of women in relation to global social change. The book addresses the current themes in psychiatric disorders among women: reproduction and mental health, service delivery and ethics, impact of violence, disasters and migration, women's mental health promotion and social policy, and concludes each section with a commentary discussing important themes emerging from each chapter. Psychiatrists, sociologists and students of women's studies will all benefit from this textbook.With a Foreword by Sir Michael Marmot, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London; Chair, Commission on Social Determinants of Health

Contemporary Topics in Women's Mental Health: Global perspectives in a changing society

1 Psychotic disorders and bipolar affective disorder BPADR. Thara and R. Padmavati2 Depression and anxiety among womenNadia Kadri and Khadiza Mchichi Alami3 Somatisation and dissociationSantosh K. Chaturvedi and Ravi Philip4 Eating disordersRobert L. Palmer and Dr Sarvath Abbas5 Suicidality in womenGergö Hadlaczky and Dannuta Wasserman6 Alcohol and substance abuseFlorence Baingana7 Psychiatric consequences of trauma in womenElie G. Karam, Mariana M. Salamoun and Salim El-Sabbagh8 Voices of consumers - women with mental illness share their experiencesShoba Raja9 Mental aspects of pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum periodJane Fisher, Meena Cabral de Mello and Takashi Izutsu10 Psychological issues and reproductive health conditions: an interfaceVeena A. Satyanarayana, Geetha Desai and Prabha S. Chandra11 Menopause and women's mental health: the need for a multidimensional approachJill Astbury12 Ethics in psychiatric research among womenLaura Roberts and Kristen Prentice13 Integrating mental health into women's health and primary healthcare: the case of ChileGraciela Rojas and Enrique Jadresic14 Service settings for gender sensitive psychiatric care: children and adolescentsCorina Benjet15 Gender sensitive care for adult womenMarta B. Rondon16 PsychopharmacologySilvana Sarabia17 Women and disastersUnaiza Niaz18 Intimate partner violence interventionsKrishna Vaddiparti and Deepthi S. Varma19 Migration and mental health in women: mental health action plan as a tool to increase communication between clinicians and policy makersSolvig Ekblad20 Work and women's mental healthSaida Douki21 Globalisation and women's mental health: cutting edge informationUnaiza Niaz22 The impact of culture on women's mental healthMarianne Kastrup and Unaiza Niaz23 Female mutilationAlmira Seif Eldin24 Women's mental health in the concept of broad global policiesTakashi Izutsu25 Families of origin as agents determining women's mental healthWenhong Cheng26 The unpaid workload: gender discrimination in conceptualization and its impact on women's mental healthJane Fisher27 Foundations of human development: maternal care in the early yearsLinda M. Richter and Tamsen Rochat28 The adverse impact of psychological aggression, coercion and violence in the intimate partner relationship on women's mental healthToshiko Kamo