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Title Psychopathology in women : incorporating gender perspective into descriptive psychopathology / Margarita Saenz-Herrero, editor
Edition Second edition
Published Cham : Springer, [2019]
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Contents Intro; Contents; About the Editor; Introduction; Part I: General Aspects; 1: Women Mental Health All over the World: Sociopolitical Aspects of Gender Discrimination and Violence: Immigration and Transnational Motherhood; 1.1 The Social Health Approach; 1.2 Gender Violence: A Public Health Problem Around the World; 1.2.1 Defining Poverty and Its Gender Distribution; 1.2.2 Human Trafficking; 1.2.3 Women in Armed Conflicts; 1.3 International Recommendations for the Prevention of Gender-Based Violence; 1.4 Prevention and Response; 1.5 The Feminization of Immigration
1.5.1 Transnational Motherhood1.6 The Empowerment of Women; References; 2: What Is Human Resilience and Why Does It Matter?; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Many Definitions of Resilience and Related Terminology; 2.2.1 Origins of Resilience Research; 2.3 Resilience as a Complex and Dynamic 'Natural' Human Process; 2.4 Context Matters: Challenging Normative Stands in Definitions; 2.5 Going Beyond the Individual: The Structural Factors that Support, Enhance or Diminish Resilience Trajectories; 2.6 Gender Blindness: When Resilience Is About Rights and Equity; 2.7 Conclusion; References
3: Intimate Partner Violence Against Women: Impact on Mental Health3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Explanatory Models; 3.2.1 Individual; 3.2.2 Microsystem; 3.2.3 Exosystem; 3.2.4 Macrosystem; 3.3 Vulnerability Factors: Attachment, Trauma, Resilience and Intimate Partner Violence Against Women; 3.4 Psychic Changes in People Exposed to Protracted Traumas; 3.4.1 Coercive Persuasion; 3.4.2 Domestic Stockholm Syndrome; 3.4.3 Paradoxical Adaptation to Domestic Violence Syndrome; 3.4.4 Cycle of Violence; 3.5 Specific Aspects of Mental Health Issues in Women Victims of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women
3.5.1 SMI and IPV Against Women3.5.2 Depression and Suicide; 3.5.3 PTSD; 3.5.4 Complex PTSD; 3.5.5 Substance Abuse; 3.5.6 Dissociative Disorders; 3.5.7 Psychosomatic Disorders; 3.5.8 Eating Disorders; 3.6 Final Thoughts About Intervention and Impact on Healthcare Professionals; 3.6.1 Impact of Working with IPV Victims on Professionals; References; 4: Sexual Violence: Effects on Women's Identity and Mental Health; 4.1 The Roots of Sexual Violence; 4.1.1 Sexual Violence Throughout History; 4.1.2 Sexual Violence, Patriarchy and Desire; 4.2 Types of Sexual Violence and Their Context
4.2.1 Sexual Harassment4.2.2 Sexual Abuse; 4.2.3 Sexual Assault; 4.2.4 Other Sexual Violence Scenarios; 4.2.5 Sexual Violence in Childhood, Adolescence and in the Couple; 4.2.5.1 Sexual Abuse in Childhood; 4.2.5.2 Child Sexual Abuse Inside and Outside the Family; 4.2.5.3 Sexual Violence in Adolescents and the Use of Social Media; 4.2.5.4 Sexual Violence in the Couple; 4.2.6 Prostitution; 4.2.7 Human Trafficking; 4.2.8 Female Genital Mutilation; 4.3 Current Discussions on Sexual Violence; 4.4 Impact of Sexual Violence on Women's Mental Health; 4.4.1 The Starting Point
Summary This book examines sex and gender differences in the causes and expression of medical conditions, including mental health disorders. Sex differences are variations attributable to individual reproductive organs and the XX or XY chromosomal complement. Gender differences are variations that result from biological sex as well as individual self-representation which include psychological, behavioural, and social consequences of an individuals perceived gender. Gender is still a neglected field in psychopathology, and gender differences is often incorrectly used as a synonym of sex differences. A reconsideration of the definition of gender, as the term that subsumes masculinity and femininity, could shed some light on this misperception and could have an effect in the study of health and disease. This second edition of Psychopathology clarifies the anthropological, cultural and social aspects of gender and their impact on mental health disorders. It focuses on gender perspective as a paradigm not only in psychopathology but also in mental health disorders. As such it promotes open mindedness in the definition and perception of symptoms, as well as assumptions about those symptoms, and raises awareness of mental health
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 18, 2019)
Subject Women -- Psychology.
Psychology, Pathological -- Sex differences
Women -- Mental health.
Women and psychoanalysis.
Mental illness.
Sex factors in disease.
Human beings.
Mental Disorders
Sex Factors
Women -- psychology
Female
Humans
mental disorders.
Homo sapiens (species)
Women and psychoanalysis
Women -- Mental health
Women -- Psychology
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
Author Sáenz Herrero, Margarita, editor.
ISBN 9783030151799
3030151794