Women and Depression

Women and Depression

This handbook serves to move toward a more integrative approach to womens depression. It not only thoroughly reviews etiological theories and findings of the social, psychological, and biomedical exposures that increase womens risk for depression, but also critically examines treatment, prevention, and social policy approaches to reducing depression in women.

Throughout the world, rates of depression are greater among females than males, and this gender gap emerges during adolescence and persists throughout adulthood. Until recently, women's health has centered on the topic of reproductive health, because research focused almost exclusively on biological and anatomical differences distinguishing men and women. Social and behavioral research on gender differences in health now employs multiple disciplinary frameworks and methodologies, and researchers seek to understand the higher rates of specific diseases and disorders in women and men. Symptoms of depression and the diagnosis of depression are more prevalent in women, and research that focuses on biological, psychological, and sociopolitical explanations for this gender gap should now be brought together to better inform efforts at treatment and prevention. Women and Depression is a handbook that serves to move toward a more integrative approach to women's depression in particular and mental health for all more generally.

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Corey L. M. Keyes is a sociologist and social psychologist. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and has been a member of the Emory University faculty since 1997 where he holds joint appointments in the Department of Sociology and in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education of the Rollins School of Public Health, and is an adjunct faculty in the Department of Psychology. Dr. Keyes is a leader in the new field of positive psychology and has published a new model of complete health along with initial measurements of optimal, complete health found in the US adult population.

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Part I. Nosology
Measurement
and the Epidemiology of Women and Depression: 1. Depression: from nosology to global burden Kay Wilhelm; 2. Epidemiology of depression in women Ronald Kessler; Part II. Biological
Developmental
and Aging Models of Risk: 3. The biology underpinnings of depression Ania Korszun
Margaret Altemus
and Elizabeth Young; 4. Depressive disorders in women: from Menarche to beyond the menopause Wendy Somerset
D. Jeffrey Newport
Kim Ragan and Zachary N. Stowe; 5. Does puberty account for the gender differential in depression? Laura M. DeRose
A. Jordan Wright and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn; 6. Women's aging and depression Brenda Penninx; Part III. Cognitive
Emotional
and Interpersonal Models of Risk: 7. Cognition and depression Joan Girgus and Susan Nolen-Hoeksema; 8. Personality and depression in women Thomas A. Widiger
Stephanie Mullins-Sweatt and Kristen G. Anderson; 9. The social costs of stress: how sex differences in stress responses can lead to social stress vulnerability and depression in women Laura Cousino Klein
Elizabeth J. Corwin
and Rachel M. Ceballos; 10. Marriage and depression Mark A. Whisman
Lauren M. Weinstock
and Natalie Tolejko; 11. Depression in women who are mothers: an integrative model of risk for the development of psychopathology in their sons and daughters Sherryl H. Goodman and Erin Tully; Part IV. Social
Political
and Economic Models of Risk: 12. Social suffering
gender
and women's depression Jeanne Marecek; 13. Women
work
and depression: conceptual and policy issues Mary Clare Lennon; 14. Culture
race/ethnicity
and depression Pamela Braboy-Jackson and David Williams; 15. Trauma and depression Kristin M. Penza
Christine Heim
and Charles Nemeroff; 16. Public health approach to depression and women: the case of the disadvantaged inner-city woman Claire E. Sterk
Katherine P. Theall and Kirk W. Elifson; Part V. Systems and Processes of Treatment
Prevention
and Policy: 17. Services and treatment for depression: international perspectives and implications for a gender-sensitive approach Shekhar Saxena and Pratap Sharan; 18. Prevention of depression in women Tamar Mendelson and Ricardo F. Munoz; 19. Women and depression: research
theory
and social policies Jean Hamilton and Nancy F. Russo.