Handbook of Women, Stress and Trauma

by Kendall-Tackett,Kathleen A.

• ISBN13: 9780415947428
• ISBN10: 0415947421
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Women are significantly more likely to experience certain types of stress and trauma, though not enough is currently available to counselors and social workers about how to assess and treat trauma-related issues in females. Women not only process information and react differently than males but are also affected by hormones and emotions differently. In addition, females face particular stresses at each developmental stage from the pressures of adolescence to childbearing to simultaneous mothering for children and aging parents. TheHandbook of Women, Stress and Traumafocuses on the stresses and traumas that are unique to the lives of women. It is the first text to merge research from the fields of trauma and women's health. Using a lifespan developmental approach, the text begins by addressing specific issues that women face at various stages in their lives, drawing upon theories of development and exploring how women's relationships with others buffer-or sometimes cause-stress and trauma.Subsequent sections of the handbook focus on stress and trauma in the lives of mothers; the spectrum of violence against women; and stress and trauma in special populations of women, including women of color, women with disabilities and lesbians.

Author Biography

Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett is a health psychologist and Research Associate Professor of Psychology, Research Lab/Crimes against Children Research Center, University of New Hampshire.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Series Editor's Foreword	xi
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction: Women's Experiences of Stress and Trauma	1	(8)
Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett
SECTION I: WOMEN'S STRESS AND TRAUMA IN LIFE-SPAN PERSPECTIVE
Relational Stress and Trauma in the Lives of Girls and Teens	9	(24)
Katreena Scott
Jasmine Eliav
Caught in the Middle: Stress in the Lives of Young Adult Women	33	(20)
Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett
Trauma Associated with Perinatal Events: Birth Experience, Prematurity, and Childbearing Loss	53	(22)
Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett
Stress and Trauma in the Lives of Middle-Aged and Old Women	75	(26)
Jane A. Rysberg
SECTION II: THE SPECTER OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Sexual Violence in the Lives of Girls and Women	101	(22)
Kathleen C. Basile
Intimate Partner Violence: Implications for Women's Physical and Mental Health	123	(18)
Jacquelyn C. Campbell
Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett
Abuse of Elderly Women in Family Relationships: Another Form of Violence Against Women	141	(18)
L. Rene Bergeron
Health Issues Associated with Violence Against Women	159	(22)
Stephanie J. Dallam
The Neurobiology of Childhood Sexual Abuse in Women with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	181	(26)
J. Douglas Bremner
SECTION III: STRESS AND TRAUMA IN THE LIVES OF WOMEN OF COLOR, WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES, AND LESBIAN WOMEN
Stress and Trauma in the Lives of Women of Color	207	(22)
Martha E. Banks
Rosalie J. Ackerman
Barbara W. K. Yee
Carolyn M. West
Stress and Trauma in the Lives of Women with Disabilities	229	(16)
Linda R. Mona
Rebecca P. Cameron
Danette Crawford
Heterosexism and Violence in the Lives of Lesbian Women: Implications for Mental Health	245	(22)
Batya Hyman
Index	267