Spiritual Caregiving: Healthcare as a Ministry
Author: Verna Benner Carson
With today's cumbersome insurance procedures, government regulations, endless paperwork, and concerns about malpractice rates, many healthcare professionals are asking: Why am I doing this? Am I making a difference to my patients? Is there a better way—and if so, what is it? In this book, Carson and Koenig examine the state of the healthcare system with the goal of providing healthcare professionals and caregivers the inspiration and practical tools to re-claim their sense of purpose.
The book begins with an evaluation of the current system from the perspective of the spiritual vision that initially motivated and nourished many caregivers. The authors then pose a vision of a healthcare system that supports and nurtures the spirituality of patients and their families, of which some elements already exist.
An overview is provided on the preparation necessary for healthcare professionals to offer spiritual care when there are major implications—for people with chronic illnesses, psychiatric issues, devastating injuries, and those preparing for surgery, facing death, and those living with chronic pain. Also explored are ways that health professionals and caregivers can maintain their own spiritual health even as they work to bring about healing, comfort, and solace to others.
Woven throughout the book are the personal narratives of physicians, nurses, chaplains, healthcare educators, community resource workers, administrators, therapists, and psychologists—all from a wide range of religious traditions. Their examples inspire and assist professionals in renewing the spiritual focus of healthcare.
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Women's Mental Health: A Comprehensive Textbook
Author: Susan G Kornstein
This comprehensive reference and text synthesizes a vast body of current knowledge about women's mental health and health care. Coverage includes women's psychobiology across the life span--sex differences in neurobiology and psychopharmacology and psychiatric aspects of the reproductive cycle--as well as gender-related issues in assessment and treatment of frequently encountered psychiatric disorders. Empirically sound, clinically useful information is presented on sex differences in epidemiology, risk factors, presenting symptoms, treatment options and outcomes, and more. Sections also delve into mental health consultation to other medical specialties; developmental and sociocultural considerations in service delivery, including diversity issues; and research methodology and health policy concerns. Reflecting important contemporary advances in research and practice, this unique volume fills a crucial need for mental health and medical practitioners in a range of specialty areas. It will also serve as a text in graduate-level courses and residency programs.
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Reviewer: Michelle Field-Chez, MD (Rush University Medical Center)
Description: This comprehensive textbook on women's mental health brings together an array of interdisciplinary experts. These experts review mental health issues and disorders throughout women's lives.
Purpose: The purpose is to present an overview of the current state of affairs within the field of women's mental health. This book is needed due to the tremendous headway made in this area. This book meets the editor's objective.
Audience: This book is intended to serve as a reference for clinicians, researchers, and students, according to the editors. The editors are both highly credible on the subject of women's health. One is a leading academic ob-gyn with active research in women's mental health, and the other is an academic psychiatrist involved in the study of mood and anxiety disorders during the reproductive life of women. The latter researcher also studies sexual dysfunction in women and sexual dysfunction as a result of the usage of psychopharmacology.
Features: This book begins by discussing the psychiatric aspects of the different cycles of a woman's reproductive life. Included in this section are the differences in neuroendocrine and neutrotransmitters as they relate to women, and the differences in the use of psychopharmacology. Part 2 covers assessment and treatment of both Axis I and Axis II disorders in women. Part 3 deals with the use of other medical consultants for the treatment and diagnosis of women in relationship to their psychiatric issues. Part 4 covers the sociocultural issues affecting women, i.e. marriage, aging, trauma, and violence. Finally, Part 5 deals with the future and looks at mental health policy research.
Assessment: This book is very useful for its access to the references, researchers, and summaries of the current opinion about women's mental health. For students, this book is a wonderful learning tool. Clinicians will be able to use this book to learn about current thought on the diagnosis and treatment of women with psychiatric illnesses. Finally, researchers will be able to review the literature that has been written up to this point in various areas of psychiatric illness, in order to supplement and expand their work. This is an outstanding book and anyone working with women should have this as a reference.
Booknews
A comprehensive reference for clinicians, researchers, and students. The contributors incorporate psychobiological, psychosocial, and health policy perspectives on mental health issues and disorders that are unique to women, more prevalent in women, or expressed differently in women and men. Sections address women's psychobiology and reproductive life cycle; assessment and treatment of psychiatric disorders in women; psychiatric consultation with women; sociocultural issues faced by women; and research and health policy issues. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Table of Contents:
| Pt. I | Women's Psychobiology and Reproductive Life Cycle | |
| 1 | Sex Differences in Neuroendocrine and Neurotransmitter Systems | 3 |
| 2 | Sex Differences in Psychopharmacology | 31 |
| 3 | Psychiatric Aspects of the Menstrual Cycle | 48 |
| 4 | Psychiatric Aspects of Pregnancy | 70 |
| 5 | Psychiatric Aspects of the Postpartum Period | 91 |
| 6 | Psychiatric Aspects of Hormonal Contraception | 114 |
| 7 | Psychiatric Aspects of Menopause: Depression | 132 |
| Pt. II | Assessment and Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders in Women | |
| 8 | Depression | 147 |
| 9 | Bipolar Disorder | 166 |
| 10 | Schizophrenia | 182 |
| 11 | Anxiety Disorders | 195 |
| 12 | Alcohol and Other Substance Abuse | 222 |
| 13 | Eating Disorders | 244 |
| 14 | Sexual Dysfunction | 263 |
| 15 | Sleep Disorders | 274 |
| 16 | Body Dysmorphic Disorder | 295 |
| 17 | Somatoform Disorders | 307 |
| 18 | Personality Disorders | 323 |
| 19 | Complementary and Alternative Medicine | 344 |
| Pt. III | Psychiatric Consultation in Women | |
| 20 | Gynecology | 359 |
| 21 | Oncology: Women with Breast, Gynecologic, or Lung Cancer | 369 |
| 22 | Rheumatological Diseases | 390 |
| 23 | Endocrine Disorders | 404 |
| 24 | Cardiovascular Disease | 422 |
| 25 | Gastrointestinal Disorders | 437 |
| 26 | HIV/AIDS | 452 |
| 27 | Neurological Disorders of Increased Prevalence in Women: Migraine, Multiple Sclerosis, and Alzheimer's Disease | 467 |
| 28 | Cosmetic Surgery | 481 |
| Pt. IV | Sociocultural Issues for Women | |
| 29 | Developmental Perspectives on Gender | 499 |
| 30 | Marriage and Family | 515 |
| 31 | Career and Workplace Issues | 527 |
| 32 | Trauma and Violence | 542 |
| 33 | Lesbian Women | 555 |
| 34 | Women of Color | 568 |
| 35 | Aging and Elderly Women | 584 |
| Pt. V | Research and Health Policy Issues | |
| 36 | Women and Mental Health Research Methodology | 597 |
| 37 | Mental Health Policy and Women | 613 |
| Index | 629 |
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