- Women's Reproductive Mental Health Across the Lifespan (2014, Hardcover) in DOC, FB2
9783319051154 English 3319051156 In recent years, the subject of women s reproductive mental health, particularly around the child-bearing years, has garnered significant interest. Research indicates more psychiatric admissions during this period of women s reproductive lives than at any other time in the female life cycle. Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders have become the focus of numerous studies and current statistics estimate as many as 800,000 to 1 million women each year that will experience mental illness around pregnancy and childbirth. There is increasing awareness that a mother s depression impacts the fetus in utero, disrupts the growing attachment relationship postpartum with potentially serious repercussions for the cognitive, social-emotional and psychological health of the developing child. Furthermore, women s mood disorders around the reproductive years often create discord in partner relationships and a decline in marital satisfaction with potentially adverse consequences for the stability of the marital relationship and the larger family. Women s Reproductive Mental Health Across the Lifespan establishes that the foundations of women s reproductive mental health begin many years before a pregnancy is even contemplated. It is the first edited volume to bring research and clinical applications together through the perspective of prominent researchers in this field. This book provides a comprehensive overview of a woman s experience as she approaches puberty and the advent of menstruation to even after the child-bearing years come to a close. Because this work intends to deepen the understanding of the indelible link between women s psychology and their reproductive timeline, it has interdisciplinary relevance to all health care practitioners who treat women.", This outstanding collection of work is an important, timely, and much needed resource. Dr. Diana Lynn Barnes has been instrumental in bringing attention to the needs of perinatal women for decades. In Women's Reproductive Health Across the Lifespan, she brilliantly unites the medical world of reproductive life events with the psychiatric and psychological world of mental health issues associated with them. Her expertise, combined with contributions by distinguished leaders in the field, create a volume of work that should be studied carefully by every medical and mental health provider who works with women. -Karen Kleiman, MSW, The Postpartum Stress Center, Author of Therapy and the Postpartum Woman Finally, a book that addresses the entire scope of women's reproductive mental health spanning the gamut from puberty to menopause. The list of chapter contributors reads like a who's who of international experts. Unique to this book is its focus on the interaction of genetics, hormonal fluctuations, and the social environment. It is a must addition for the libraries of clinicians and researchers in women's reproductive mental health. -Cheryl Tatano Beck, DNSc, CNM, FAAN, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, School of Nursing, University of Connecticut Pregnancy and childbirth are generally viewed as joyous occasions. Yet for numerous women, these events instead bring anxiety, depression, and emotional distress. Increased interest in risk reduction and early clinical intervention is bringing reproductive issues to the forefront of women's mental health. The scope of Women's Reproductive Mental Health across the Lifespan begins long before the childbearing years, and continues well after those years have ended. Empirical findings, case examples, and dispatches from emerging areas of the field illuminate representative issues across the continuum of women's lives with the goal of more effective care benefitting women and their familie
9783319051154 English 3319051156 In recent years, the subject of women s reproductive mental health, particularly around the child-bearing years, has garnered significant interest. Research indicates more psychiatric admissions during this period of women s reproductive lives than at any other time in the female life cycle. Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders have become the focus of numerous studies and current statistics estimate as many as 800,000 to 1 million women each year that will experience mental illness around pregnancy and childbirth. There is increasing awareness that a mother s depression impacts the fetus in utero, disrupts the growing attachment relationship postpartum with potentially serious repercussions for the cognitive, social-emotional and psychological health of the developing child. Furthermore, women s mood disorders around the reproductive years often create discord in partner relationships and a decline in marital satisfaction with potentially adverse consequences for the stability of the marital relationship and the larger family. Women s Reproductive Mental Health Across the Lifespan establishes that the foundations of women s reproductive mental health begin many years before a pregnancy is even contemplated. It is the first edited volume to bring research and clinical applications together through the perspective of prominent researchers in this field. This book provides a comprehensive overview of a woman s experience as she approaches puberty and the advent of menstruation to even after the child-bearing years come to a close. Because this work intends to deepen the understanding of the indelible link between women s psychology and their reproductive timeline, it has interdisciplinary relevance to all health care practitioners who treat women.", This outstanding collection of work is an important, timely, and much needed resource. Dr. Diana Lynn Barnes has been instrumental in bringing attention to the needs of perinatal women for decades. In Women's Reproductive Health Across the Lifespan, she brilliantly unites the medical world of reproductive life events with the psychiatric and psychological world of mental health issues associated with them. Her expertise, combined with contributions by distinguished leaders in the field, create a volume of work that should be studied carefully by every medical and mental health provider who works with women. -Karen Kleiman, MSW, The Postpartum Stress Center, Author of Therapy and the Postpartum Woman Finally, a book that addresses the entire scope of women's reproductive mental health spanning the gamut from puberty to menopause. The list of chapter contributors reads like a who's who of international experts. Unique to this book is its focus on the interaction of genetics, hormonal fluctuations, and the social environment. It is a must addition for the libraries of clinicians and researchers in women's reproductive mental health. -Cheryl Tatano Beck, DNSc, CNM, FAAN, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, School of Nursing, University of Connecticut Pregnancy and childbirth are generally viewed as joyous occasions. Yet for numerous women, these events instead bring anxiety, depression, and emotional distress. Increased interest in risk reduction and early clinical intervention is bringing reproductive issues to the forefront of women's mental health. The scope of Women's Reproductive Mental Health across the Lifespan begins long before the childbearing years, and continues well after those years have ended. Empirical findings, case examples, and dispatches from emerging areas of the field illuminate representative issues across the continuum of women's lives with the goal of more effective care benefitting women and their familie