This book integrates the role of gender in girls' and women's development across the life span, looking specifically at internal and external vulnerabilities and risks, and the protective or supportive factors that facilitate effective coping, positive growth, strength, and resilience. The interaction between physical, psychological, and cultural factors is integrated within each period of development. The book emphasizes how gender socialization of female development and behavior impacts both self-evaluation and identity processes within various cultural groups. The book also discusses the social roles that girls and women reflectively adopt. Lastly, it recognizes that externally induced risks such as poverty, interpersonal abuse, and violence present challenges to healthy development.
Author(s): Judith Worell, Carol D. Goodheart
Series: Oxford Series in Clinical Psychology
Edition: 1
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 529
Contents......Page 12
Foreword......Page 8
Contributors......Page 18
Part I: Gender and Psychological Health......Page 30
1 An Integrated View of Girls’ and Women’s Health: Psychology, Physiology, and Society......Page 32
2 Risks to Healthy Development: The Somber Planes of Life......Page 44
3 Pathways to Healthy Development: Sources of Strength and Empowerment......Page 54
Part II: Risks and Strengths Across the Life Span......Page 66
PROBLEMS AND RISKS......Page 68
4 Assessment and Gender......Page 69
5 Mood Disturbance Across the Life Span......Page 80
6 Anxiety Disturbance in Girls and Women......Page 89
7 Body Image......Page 98
8 Serious Emotional Disturbance and Serious Mental Illness......Page 106
9 Violence Against Girls and Women: An Integrative Developmental Perspective......Page 114
10 Physical or Systemic Disabilities......Page 123
11 Trauma in the Lives of Girls and Women......Page 132
12 Substance Use and Abuse by Girls and Women......Page 142
13 Poor Women and Girls in a Wealthy Nation......Page 151
14 Women and Suicide......Page 158
STRENGTHS AND RESOURCES......Page 166
15 Coping in Adolescent Girls and Women......Page 167
16 Self-Esteem......Page 178
17 Resilience and Empowerment......Page 186
18 Subjective Well-Being......Page 195
19 The Sense of Entitlement: Implications for Gender Equality and Psychological Well-Being......Page 204
20 Balanced Living Through Self-Care......Page 212
21 To Your Sexual Health! Incorporating Sexuality Into the Health Perspective......Page 221
22 Women and Giving......Page 229
23 Women and Relationships......Page 237
24 Healthy Environments for Youth and Families......Page 247
25 The Psychotherapeutic Relationship as a Positive and Powerful Resource for Girls and Women......Page 258
Part III: Phases of Development Within the Life Span......Page 268
CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS: AWAKENINGS......Page 270
26 Gender Role and Gender Identity Development......Page 271
27 The Interplay of Physical and Psychosocial Development......Page 281
28 The Family Environment: Where Gender Role Socialization Begins......Page 291
29 Girls and Academic Success: Changing Patterns of Academic Achievement......Page 301
30 Gender and Schooling: Progress and Persistent Barriers......Page 312
31 Adolescent Girls’ Health in the Context of Peer and Community Relationships......Page 321
32 From Girlhood to Womanhood: Multiple Transitions in Context......Page 330
ADULTS: BALANCING......Page 340
33 Women’s Career Development......Page 341
34 Love, Intimacy, and Partners......Page 350
35 Women’s Reproductive Health: Issues, Findings, and Controversies......Page 359
36 The Mixed Messages of Motherhood......Page 368
37 Family and Work Balance......Page 379
38 Midlife Transitions......Page 388
OLDER ADULTS: WINDING DOWN AND SUMMING UP......Page 398
39 Aging and Identity: How Women Face Later Life Transitions......Page 399
40 Physical Health and Illness in Older Women......Page 408
41 Older Women and Security......Page 417
42 Bereavement......Page 426
43 Women’s Issues at the End of Life......Page 435
44 Positive Aging: Reconstructing the Life Course......Page 445
Part IV: Special Problems and Resources......Page 454
45 Legal Issues Influencing Girls’ and Women’s Psychological Health......Page 456
46 Adaptation of Immigrant Girls and Women......Page 468
47 Psychopharmacotherapy and Women: Issues for Consideration......Page 476
48 Survivors of Male Violence: Research and Training Initiatives to Facilitate Recovery From Depression and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder......Page 484
49 An Overview of Policies That Impact the Psychological Well-Being of Girls and Women......Page 496
Part V: Conclusion......Page 508
50 Afterword......Page 510
A......Page 512
B......Page 513
C......Page 514
D......Page 515
E......Page 516
F......Page 517
G......Page 518
H......Page 519
I......Page 520
M......Page 521
N......Page 522
P......Page 523
R......Page 525
S......Page 526
V......Page 528
W......Page 529
