Concise Guide to Women's Mental Health (Concise Guides) [Paperback]

Vivien K. Burt (Author), Victoria C. Hendrick (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0880483431 | ISBN-13: 978-0880483438 | Publication Date: March 1997

To ensure comprehensive psychiatric care for women, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals must incorporate the latest advances in medicine, oncology, obstetrics and gynaecology into their practice. This is a practical handbook to the assessment and management of psychiatric conditions in women. It explores medical treatments and their relationship to psychiatric illness. In particular, it examines the biological, psychological and sociocultural factors that influence a woman's mental health and often contribute to psychiatric disorders. This text should supply clinicians with important information on gender-related differences in psychiatric disorders and psychopharmaology and the effects of these differences on differential diagnosis, case formulation and treatment planning. For handy reference in clinical situations, the guide also provides numerous concise summary tables, figures and charts containing the latest information on women's mental health, including the use of psychotropic medications with specific female populations.

Editorial Reviews

Review

...[there are] immediately practical information, clinical pearls, and wise sympathetic perspectives in this extremely valuable book -- Joel Yager, M.D., Professor and Vice Chair for Education, The University of New Mexico, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Albuquerque, New Mexico

...compresses a wealth of clinically useful material about the reproductive aspects of women's mental health... -- Nada L. Stotland, M.D., Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Substance Abuse Services, Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois

...this book should be of interest to psychologically aware trainees in several disciplines, not just psychiatry -- British Journal of Psychiatry

About the Author

Vivien K. Burt, M.D., Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California-Los Angeles; Director of the Women's Life Center at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital; and Medical Director of the Mental Health Clinic at the West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.

Victoria Hendrick, M.D., is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California-Los Angeles; and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Medical Center, Mental Health Clinic, Los Angeles, California.

Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Amer Psychiatric Pub (March 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0880483431
• ISBN-13: 978-0880483438
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,470,284 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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