Mental health issues of older women : a comprehensive review for health care professionals /
Contributor(s): Malatesta, Victor J. (Victor Julio), Ph. D.
Series: Journal of women & aging: v. 19, no. 1/2.Publisher: [Binghamton, N.Y.] : Haworth Press, c2007Description: 212 p. ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780789035974 (hard cover : alk. paper); 9780789035974:; 0789035979 (hard cover : alk. paper); 9780789035981 (soft cover : alk. paper); 0789035987 (soft cover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Older women -- Mental health | Middle-aged women -- Mental healthDDC classification: 618.97689Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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"Co-published simultaneously as Journal of women & aging, volume 19, numbers 1/2, 2007."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the need to address older women's mental health issues / Victor J. Malatesta -- Cognitive functioning and aging in women / Peter C. Badgio, Blaise L. Worden -- Women, aging, and alcohol use disorders / Elizabeth E. Epstein, Kimberly Fischer-Elber, Zayed Al-Otaiba -- Women, aging, and schizophrenia / Faith B. Dickerson -- Major depressive disorder in the older adult: implications for women / Reed D. Goldstein, Alan M. Gruenberg -- Anxiety disorders and older women / Stephen Levine, Jay Weissman -- Posttraumatic stress disorder and older women / Miriam Franco -- The older female patient with a complex chronic dissociative disorder / Richard P. Kluft -- Sexual problems, women, and aging: an overview / Victor J. Malatesta -- Eating disorders across the lifespan / Lynn Brandsma -- Borderline personality disorder across the lifespan / Melissa Hunt.
This is a comprehensive overview for health care professionals, educators, and students on the study of mental health problems of aging women. A full range of mental health problems are explored, including dementia, cognitive impairment, alcohol abuse, schizophrenia, depression and anxiety disorders.