Handbook Of Girls' And Women's Psychological Health

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: Carol D. Goodheart, Carol D. (Clinical Supervisor Goodheart, Goodheart Carol D., Judith Worell, Judith (EDT)/ Goodheart Worell
• Assisted by: Carol D. Goodheart (Editor), Judith Worell (Editor), Judith (Professor of Psychology Worell (Editor), Judy Worell (Editor), Worell Judith (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2005
• EAN: 9780195162035
• ISBN: 978-0-19-516203-5
• No. of pages: 500
• Dimensions: 184 mm x 254 mm x 44 mm
• Series: Oxford Series in Clinical Psyc; Oxford Series in Clinical Psychology; Oxford Series in Clinical Psychology; Oxford Series in Clinical Psyc; Oxford Clinical Psychology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, Psychiatry, Clinical psychology