Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Women [Paperback]

This book takes a biopsychosocial and developmental approach to mood and anxiety disorders across the female life cycle.Mood and anxiety disorders in women represent an increasingly important area of research and treatment development. The authors take a broad biopsychosocial and developmental approach to the issues, looking at the whole female life cycle. All the disorders are covered, and evidence for gender differences and treatment implications is examined.Mood and anxiety disorders in women represent an increasingly important area of research and treatment development. The authors take a broad biopsychosocial and developmental approach to the issues, looking at the whole female life cycle. All the disorders are covered, and evidence for gender differences and treatment implications is examined.Mood and anxiety disorders in women represent an increasingly important area of research and treatment development. The authors take a broad biopsychosocial and developmental approach to the issues, beginning with anxiety disorders in adolescence and progressing through the life phases of women to menopause and old age. All the disorders are covered, from anxiety and borderline personality disorder to stress and late-life depression. Particular attention is paid to questions of vulnerability; epidemiological and clinical evidence showing gender differences in such disorders; aetiological explanations in terms of biological (including hormonal) as well as psychosocial parameters, and treatment implications.Foreword; 1. Pubertal development and the mergence of the gender gap in mood disorders: a developmental and evolutionary synthesis Nicholas B. Allen, Anna Barrett, Lisa Sheeber and Betsy Davis; 2. Borderline personality disorder: sex differences Andrew M. Chanen; 3. Substance use and abuse in women Clare Gerada, Kristy Joyhns, Amanda Baker and David Castle; 4. Anxiety disorders in women Heather B. Howell, David Castle and Kimberley Yonkers; 5. Posttraumatic stress disordl£$