Women and Depression: A Handbook for the Social, Behavioral, and Biomedical Sciences

by Edited by Corey L. M. Keyes , Sherryl H. Goodman

• ISBN13: 9780521831574
• ISBN10: 0521831571
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-23
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Throughout the world, rates of depression are greater among females than males, and this gender gap emerges during adolescence and persists throughout adulthood. Until recently, women's health has centered on the topic of reproductive health, because research focused almost exclusively on biological and anatomical differences distinguishing men and women. Social and behavioral research on gender differences in health now employs multiple disciplinary frameworks and methodologies, and researchers seek to understand the higher rates of specific diseases and disorders in women and men. Symptoms of depression and the diagnosis of depression are more prevalent in women, and research that focuses on biological, psychological, and sociopolitical explanations for this gender gap should now be brought together to better inform efforts at treatment and prevention. Women and Depression is a handbook that serves to move toward a more integrative approach to women's depression in particular and mental health for all more generally.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	xi
Foreword	xv
Mrs. Rosalynn Carter
Preface	xvii
Corey L.M. Keyes and Sherryl H. Goodman
PART I. NOSOLOGY, MEASUREMENT, AND THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF WOMEN AND DEPRESSION
1 Depression: From Nosology to Global Burden	3	(19)
Kay Wilhelm
2 The Epidemiology of Depression among Women	22	(19)
Ronald C. Kessler
PART II. BIOLOGICAL, DEVELOPMENTAL, AND AGING MODELS OF RISK
3 The Biological Underpinnings of Depression	41	(21)
Ania Korszun, Margaret Altemus, and Elizabeth A. Young
4 Depressive Disorders in Women: From Menarche to beyond the Menopause	62	(27)
Wendy Somerset, D. Jeffrey Newport, Kim Ragan, and Zachary N. Stowe
5 Does Puberty Account for the Gender Differential in Depression?	89	(40)
Laura M. DeRose, A. Jordan Wright, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
6 Women's Aging and Depression	129	(18)
Brenda W.J.H. Penninx
PART III. COGNITIVE, EMOTIONAL, AND INTERPERSONAL MODELS OF RISK
7 Cognition and Depression	147	(29)
Joan S. Girgus and Susan Nolen-Hoeksema
8 Personality and Depression in Women	176	(23)
Thomas A. Widiger, Stephanie Mullins-Sweatt, and Kristen G. Anderson
9 The Social Costs of Stress: How Sex Differences in Stress Responses Can Lead to Social Stress Vulnerability and Depression in Women	199	(20)
Laura Cousino Klein, Elizabeth J. Corwin, and Rachel M. Ceballos
10 Marriage and Depression	219	(22)
Mark A. Whisman, Lauren M. Weinstock, and Natalie Tolejko
11 Depression in Women Who Are Mothers: An Integrative Model of Risk for the Development of Psychopathology in Their Sons and Daughters	241	(42)
Sherryl H. Goodman and Erin Tully
PART IV. SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND ECONOMIC MODELS OF RISK
12 Social Suffering, Gender, and Women's Depression	283	(26)
Jeanne Marecek
13 Women, Work, and Depression: Conceptual and Policy Issues	309	(19)
Mary Clare Lennon
14 Culture, Race/Ethnicity, and Depression	328	(32)
Pamela Braboy Jackson and David R. Williams
15 Trauma and Depression	360	(22)
Kristin M. Penza, Christine Heim, and Charles B. Nemeroff
16 Public Health Approach to Depression and Women: The Case of the Disadvantaged Inner-City Woman	382	(35)
Claire E. Sterk, Katherine P. Theall, and Kirk W. Elifson
PART V. SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES OF TREATMENT, PREVENTION, AND POLICY
17 Services and Treatment for Depression: International Perspectives and Implications for a Gender-Sensitive Approach	417	(33)
Shekhar Saxena and Pratap Sharan
18 Prevention of Depression in Women	450	(29)
Tamar Mendelson and Ricardo F. Muñoz
19 Women and Depression: Research, Theory, and Social Policy	479	(44)
Jean A. Hamilton and Nancy Felipe Russo
Author Index	523	(44)
Subject Index	567