Handbook of Girls' and Women's Psychological Health

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; FOREWORD - NORINE G. JOHNSON ; PART I GENDER AND PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH ; 1. An Integrated View of Girls' and Women's Health: Psychology, Physiology, and Society ; 2. Risks to Healthy Development: The Somber Planes of Life ; 3. Pathways to Healthy Development: Sources of Strength and Empowerment ; PART II RISKS AND STRENGTHS ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN ; PROBLEMS AND RISKS ; 4. Assessment and Gender ; 5. Mood Disturbance Across the Lifespan ; 6. Anxiety Disturbance in Girls and Women ; 7. Body Image ; 8. Serious Emotional Disturbance and Serious Mental Illness ; 9. Violence Against Girls and Women: An Integrative Developmental Perspective ; 10. Physical or Systemic Disabilities ; 11. Trauma in the lives of Girls and Women ; 12. Substance Use and Abuse by Girls and Women ; 13. Poor Women and Girls in a Wealthy Nation ; 14. Women and Suicide ; STRENGTHS AND RESOURCES ; 15. Coping in Adolescent Girls and Women ; 16. Self-esteem ; 17. Resilience and Empowerment ; 18. Subjective Well-Being - Sonja Lyubomirsky and Rene Dickerhoof ; 19. The Sense of Entitlement: Implication for Gender Equality and Psychological Well Being ; 20. Balanced Living through Self-Care ; 21. To Your Sexual Health! Incorporating Sexuality into the Health Perspective ; 22. Women and Giving ; 23. Women and Relationships ; 24. Healthy Environments for Youth and Families ; PART III PHASES OF DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE LIFE SPAN ; CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS: AWAKENINGS ; 26. Gender Role and Gender Identity Development ; 27. The Interplay of Physical and Psychosocial Development ; 28. The Family Environment: Where Gender Role Socialization Begins ; 29. Girls and Academic Success: Changing Patterns of Academic Achievement ; 30. Gender and Schooling: Progress and Persistent Barriers ; 32. From Girlhood to Womanhood: Multiple Transitions in Context ; ADULTS: BALANCING ; 33. Women's Career Development ; 34. Love, Intimacy, And Partners ; 35. Women's Reproductive Health: Issues, Findings and Controversies ; 36. The Mixed Messages of Motherhood ; 37. Family and Work Balance ; 38. Midlife Transitions ; OLDER ADULTS: WINDING DOWN AND SUMMING UP ; 39. Aging and Identity: How Women Face Later Life Transitions ; 40. Physical Health and Illness in older women ; 41. Older Women and Security ; 42. Bereavement ; 43. Women's Issues at the End of Life ; 44. Positive Aging: Reconstructing the Life Course ; PART IV SPECIAL PROBLEMS AND RESOURCES ; 45. Legal Issues Influencing Girls' and Women's Psychological Health ; 46. Adaptation of Immigrant Girls and Women ; 47. Psychopharmacotherapy and Women: Issues for Consideration ; 48. Survivors of Male Violence: Research and Training Initiatives to Facilitate Recovery from Depression and PTSD ; 49. An Overview of Policies that Impact the Psychological Well-Being of Girls and Women ; CONCLUSION ; 50. Looking Forward

"If you want a comprehensive book on the psychological development of girls and women, this is it...It is easy to read yet it challenges the reader to look beyond simple explanations."--Doody's
"The selected essays, research studies, and extensive references compiled here are pertinent now and their value will only increase in the future."--CHOICE
."..a valuable and unique resource for the field that will be useful to readers in many different areas and at many levels of expertise. The compilation of 50 well-referenced chapters by recognized leaders in the field is no small achievement. And the inclusion of scholars from social psychology and sociology as well as developmental and clinical psychology is particularly impressive. The book crosses many boundaries in its analysis of gender and psychological health at a time when psychology has become extremely fragmented. This handbook provides a welcome synthesis."--PsycCRITIQUES
"The book is far from narrow because