Women's Mental Health: Resistance and Resilience in Community and Society (Advances in Mental Health and Addiction)

This book focuses on the social and societal context of women's mental health. Drawing from multidisciplinary perspectives and scholarship, it pays particular attention to how women's mental health is experienced at the personal level, yet it is influenced by their relationships and interacts with the larger societal context (such as prevailing gender equality policies, income distribution, role burden, peace and security). Specific attention is given to the positive aspects of women's mental health (such as agency, resilience) and how women’s personal relations across diverse domains (such as family, work, neighbourhoods) are constructed and influenced by, and in turn influence, broader societal structures/ policies/ opportunities. A unique feature of this book is that, at the end of each chapter, there is a Response section written by a non-academic such as a community member, practitioner or policy maker in which the invited authors respond to the chapter texts in the form of narrative, poetry, and/or prose, according to their various backgrounds, interests, and experiences.​ Front Matter....Pages i-xl Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Employment, Poverty, Disability and Gender: A Rights Approach for Women with Disabilities in India, Nepal and Bangladesh....Pages 3-18 The Mental Health of Health Care Workers: A Woman’s Issue?....Pages 19-32 Social and Societal Context of Women’s Mental Health, What Women Want, What They Get: Gap Analysis in Pakistan of Mental Health Services, Polices and Research....Pages 33-50 Perspectives on Violence Against Women: Social, Health, and Societal Consequences of Inter-partner Violence....Pages 51-66 Front Matter....Pages 67-67 Stress, Social Support, and Depression in Arab Muslim Immigrant Women in the Detroit Area of the USA....Pages 69-81 Social Factors Affecting the Well-Being and Mental Health of Elderly Iranian Immigrant Women in Canada....Pages 83-95 The Resettlement Blues: The Role of Social Support in Newcomer Women’s Mental Health....Pages 97-109 Reflections on Current Societal and Social Context of Women’s Mental Health in Italy....Pages 111-125 Front Matter....Pages 127-127 Women’s Benzodiazepine Abuse: A Psychoanalytic Approach....Pages 129-143 Unrecoverable? Prescriptions and Possibilities for Eating Disorder Recovery....Pages 145-160 Impact of Gender-Based Aggression on Women’s Mental Health in Portugal....Pages 161-170 Somatization as a Major Mode of Expression of Psychological Distress in Familial and Interpersonal Relationships Among Iranian Women....Pages 171-182 Front Matter....Pages 183-183 Mental Health and Resilience of Young African Women Refugees in Urban Context (Abidjan—Ivory Coast and Dakar—Senegal)....Pages 185-200 Mental Health in Non-Korean Women Residing in South Korea Following Marriage to Korean Men: Literature Review....Pages 201-215 The Gender Gap in Mental Health: Immigrants in Switzerland....Pages 217-231 Focusing on Resilience in Canadian Immigrant Mothers’ Mental Health....Pages 233-245 Reinventing Myself: A Search for Identity as an Immigrant Woman in My Journey from Brazil to Canada....Pages 247-260 Front Matter....Pages 261-261 Women Living with Homelessness: They Are (Almost) Invisible....Pages 263-276 Exploring Women’s Mental Health at the Intersections of Aging, Racialization, and Low Socioeconomic Status....Pages 277-288 The Social Construction of Mental Health Inequities Experienced by Mothers Who Are Socioeconomically Disadvantaged During Early Motherhood: A Canadian Perspective....Pages 289-307 Front Matter....Pages 309-309 Intersecting Individual, Social, and Cultural Factors in Black Mothers Resilience Building Following Loss to Gun Violence in Canada....Pages 311-325 Antenatal Depression in Immigrant Women: A Culturally Sensitive Prevention Program in Geneva (Switzerland)....Pages 327-342 Community Resilience and Community Interventions for Post-Natal Depression: Reflecting on Maternal Mental Health in Rwanda....Pages 343-356 Mothering Bereaved Children After Perinatal Death: Implications for Women’s and Children’s Mental Health in Canada....Pages 357-374 Back Matter....Pages 375-390 This book analyzes systemic problems affecting women's mental health--social inequities, marginalization, racism, and displacement among them--and proposes holistic real-world approaches to practice and policy. Women's experiences from around the globe are examined including Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, India, Iran, Italy, Ivory Coast, Nepal, Pakistan, Portugal, Rwanda, Senegal, South Korea, Switzerland, and the United States. Together, the chapters in this book deepen our understanding of the intersections of gender, race, culture, age, class, immigration status, and motherhood. Ongoing issues such as violence against women, maternal depression, eating disorders, and the stressors affecting female health care workers are discussed in familial and societal contexts. Contributors from a range of disciplines also identify relevant mental health assets including resilience, social support, and culturally-based healing, and suggest changes that sectors and systems must make to recognize women's diversity and develop and implement appropriate policies and services. Included in the international and interdisciplinary coverage: Structural Determinants of Women's Mental Health Community, Social Support, and Women's Mental Health Health and Social Services, Resistance, and Women's Mental Health Displacement, Migration, Resettlement, and Women's Mental Health Poverty, Marginalization, and Women's Mental Health Motherhood, Resilience, and Women's Mental Health At a time when barriers to women's well-being are recognized as a global health crisis, Women's Mental Health is a profound source of information for researchers in psychology, public health, and educational policy.--Résumé de l'éditeur