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Women and Health Psychology: Mental Health Issues

by Cheryl Brown Travis. 282 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Cheryl Brown Travis

Publisher:

   Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

Place of Publication:

  Hillsdale, NJ  

Publication Year:

  1988
Subjects:   Women--Mental Health, Clinical Health Psychology
Table of contents
Contents
PREFACE xiii
1 THE PSYCHOLOGY OF GENDER: MENTAL HEALTH IMPLICATIONS 1
Feminist Analyses 2
Liberal 2
Radical 5
Socialist/Marxist 7
Visions of Women 11
Psychoanalytic Frameworks 12
Feminist Object Relations 14
Relational Androgyny 17
Social Constructionism 19
Summary 21
Androgyny 22
Definition and Measurement 23
Correlates of Androgyny 24
Mental Health Implications 26
Criticisms of Androgyny 27
Summary and Conclusions 29
2 GENDER AND MENTAL HEALTH STATUS 31
Indicators of Mental Health 32
Community Surveys 32
Differential Diagnoses and Gender 34
Sources of Artifact 36
Summary 39
The Nature of Depression 39
Psychoanalytic Constructs 39
Cognitive Behavioral Hypotheses 41
Role Stress 45
Life Events Stress 48
Neurobiological Theory 50
Summary 53
3 INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS 55
Classes of Legitimate Psychotropic Drugs 57
Category I Drugs: Antianxiety Agents, Sedatives, Hypnotics 57
Category II Drugs: Antidepressants 59
Category III Drugs: Antipsychotic and Antimanic Agents 60
Other Psychotropic Drugs 60
Risks of Psychotropic Drugs 61
Side Effects 61
Drug Interactions 63
Overdose 63
Dependence 64
Summary 65
4 PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS: TREATMENT ISSUES 67
Patterns of Drug Use 68
Diagnostic Conditions 68
Patient Characteristics 70
Prescriber Characteristics 74
Explanatory Hypotheses 74
System Level Variables 75
Person-Centered Variables 79
Intervening Variables 81
Feminist Analyses 85
Liberal Perspectives 86
Radical Perspectives 88
Socialist/Marxist Perspectives 89
Summary and Comment 89
5 EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ALCOHOLISM 91
Demographic Patterns 92
General Considerations 92
Sex Comparisons 93
Life-Span Trends 95
Race and Class Patterns 97
Social Roles 98
Summary 101
Health Effects 101
Mortality 101
Morbidity 103
Summary 107
6 ETIOLOGY AND TREATMENT OF ALCOHOLISM AMONG WOMEN 109
Etiology 110
Psychodynamic 111
Social Psychological Theory 112
Social Learning 113
Psychopathology 115
Life Event Stress 117
Moral/Ethical Model 118
Biological Genetic Model 119
Treatment 124
Implications and Applications 124
Casefinding 127
Staffing 128
Assessment Strategies 129
Treatment Components 130
Skills Training 131
Summary 131
7 OVERVIEW OF EATING DISORDERS 133
Epidemiology 134
Signs and Symptoms 135
Incidence 139
Age and Sex 140
Sociocultural Features 141
Medical Consequences 143
Hospitalization 143
Physiology 145
Mortality 150
Cognitive/Affective Correlates 151
Locus of Control 151
Obsessive-Compulsive Patterns 152
Body Image 153
Summary 155
8 EATING DISORDERS: ETIOLOGY AND TREATMENT 157
Etiology 158
Culture 159
Psychoanalytic Principles 160
Family Systems 164
Therapy 166
Prognosis and Outcome 166
Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies 168
Psychodynamic Therapies 170
Feminist Perspectives 173
Summary 175
9 ISSUES IN THERAPY 177
General Criticisms of Theory and Therapy 178
Causal Models 178
Normative Male and Deviant Female 179
Artifact and Psychotherapy 179
Social Control 180
Sex-Role Bias 181
Training Limitations 183
Efficacy and Outcome 184
Nontraditional Approaches 186
Consciousness Raising 186
Social Support and Psychological Function 189
Summary 194
10 FEMINIST ALTERNATIVES 195
Feminist Alternatives in Therapy 196
Feminist Philosophy 196
Nonsexist Versus Feminist Therapy 198
Gender Effects 201
Comment 203
Old Beginnings and New Directions 203
Dominance Relations 204
Dependency 207
Anger 212
Power 215
Summary 216
REFERENCES 219
AUTHOR INDEX 259
SUBJECT INDEX 271
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