| Description |
1 online resource (296 pages) |
| Contents |
Front cover; Contents; Contributors; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Women's Experiences of Stress and Trauma; Section I: WOMEN'S STRESS AND TRAUMA IN LIFE-SPAN PERSPECTIVE; Chapter 1. Relational Stress and Trauma in the Lives of Girls and Teens; Chapter 2. Caught in the Middle: Stress in the Lives of Young Adult Women1; Chapter 3. Trauma Associated with Perinatal Events: Birth Experience, Prematurity, and Childbearing Loss1; Chapter 4. Stress and Trauma in the Lives of Middle-Aged and Old Women; Section II: THE SPECTER OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN |
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Chapter 5. Sexual Violence in the Lives of Girls and WomenChapter 6. Intimate Partner Violence: Implications for Women's Physical and Mental Health; Chapter 7. Abuse of Elderly Women in Family Relationships: Another Form of Violence Against Women; Chapter 8. Health Issues Associated with Violence Against Women; Chapter 9. The Neurbiology of Childhood Sexual Abuse in Women with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; Section III: STRESS AND T |
| Summary |
This volume combines aspects of female development with empirical data from the fields of women's health, family violence and stress and coping. It aims to help sensitise care providers to the specific needs of women exposed to traumatic events |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Women -- Mental health -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Women -- Psychology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Stress (Psychology) -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Patients -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Psychic trauma -- Patients -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Stress management for women -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Patients
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Psychic trauma -- Patients
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Stress management for women
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Stress (Psychology)
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Women -- Mental health
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Women -- Psychology
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203955154 |
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0203955153 |
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