Women's Reproductive Mental Health Across the Lifespan

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 r...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Barnes, Diana Lynn (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2014, 2014
Edition:1st ed. 2014
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • PART I. THE EARLY YEARS
  • 1.Pre and Perinatal Influences on Female Mental Health
  • 2.Girls in Between: Social, Emotional, Physical and SexualDevelopment in Context
  • 3.Menstruation and Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder: Its Impact on Mood
  • PART II. THE REPRODUCTIVE YEARS
  • 4.The Psychological Gestation of Motherhood
  • 5.Screening and Risk Assessment for Perinatal Mood Disorders
  • 6.Postpartum Adjustment: What’s Normal and What’s Not
  • 7.Chronic Mental Illness in Pregnancy and the Postpartum
  • 8.Does Psychiatric Diagnosis Affect Fertility Outcomes?
  • 9.The Reproductive Story: Dealing with Miscarriage, Stillbirth or Other Perinatal Demise
  • 10.Birth Trauma:The Causes and Consequences of Childbirth-Related Trauma and PTSD
  • PART III. THE LATER YEARS
  • 11.Babies at 40: Is the Biological Clock Really Ticking?
  • 12.Risk Factors for Depression during Perimenopause
  • PART IV. ACROSS THE LIFESPAN
  • 13.  Eating Disorders Across the Lifespan: From Menstruation to Menopause
  • 14.Hormonal Contraception and its Impact on Women’s Moods
  • 15.The Impact of Reproductive Cancers on Women’s Mental Health
  • 16.The Role of Reproductive Psychiatry in Women’s Mental Health