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Women's Mental Health

Resistance and Resilience in Community and Society

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Editors:
  1. Nazilla Khanlou

    1. York University, Toronto, Canada

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  2. F. Beryl Pilkington

    1. York University, Toronto, Canada

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  • Draws from multidisciplinary perspectives and scholarship

  • Addresses social and societal factors, rather than pathologies or deficits in individuals

  • Emphasizes positive aspects of women's mental health: resilience, resistance, agency

  • Each chapter includes an implications section relating to policy, practice, or research

Part of the book series: Advances in Mental Health and Addiction (AMHA)

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Displacement, Migration, Resettlement, and Women’s Mental Health

    1. Focusing on Resilience in Canadian Immigrant Mothers’ Mental Health

      • Yvonne Bohr, Michaela Hynie, Leigh Armour
      Pages 233-245

    2. Reinventing Myself: A Search for Identity as an Immigrant Woman in My Journey from Brazil to Canada

      • Debora I. K. Nitkin, Joyce Douglas
      Pages 247-260

  2. Poverty, Marginalization, and Women’s Mental Health

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 261-261
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    2. Women Living with Homelessness: They Are (Almost) Invisible

      • Isolde Daiski, Trish Lenz, Andre Lyn
      Pages 263-276

    3. Exploring Women’s Mental Health at the Intersections of Aging, Racialization, and Low Socioeconomic Status

      • Farah Islam, Nazilla Khanlou, Hala Tamim, Keya Saad-tengmark
      Pages 277-288

    4. The Social Construction of Mental Health Inequities Experienced by Mothers Who Are Socioeconomically Disadvantaged During Early Motherhood: A Canadian Perspective

      • Christine Kurtz Landy, Wendy Sword, Margaret Lee McArthur
      Pages 289-307

  3. Motherhood, Resilience, and Women’s Mental Health

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 309-309
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    2. Intersecting Individual, Social, and Cultural Factors in Black Mothers Resilience Building Following Loss to Gun Violence in Canada

      • Annette Bailey, Mahlon Akhtar, Jennifer Clarke, Sky Starr
      Pages 311-325

    3. Antenatal Depression in Immigrant Women: A Culturally Sensitive Prevention Program in Geneva (Switzerland)

      • Betty Goguikian Ratcliff, Anna Sharapova, Théogène-Octave Gakuba, Fabienne Borel
      Pages 327-342

    4. Community Resilience and Community Interventions for Post-Natal Depression: Reflecting on Maternal Mental Health in Rwanda

      • Michaela Hynie, Benoite Umubyeyi, Marie Claire Gasanganwa, Yvonne Bohr, Susan McGrath, Providence Umuziga et al.
      Pages 343-356

    5. Mothering Bereaved Children After Perinatal Death: Implications for Women’s and Children’s Mental Health in Canada

      • Christine Jonas-Simpson, Carine Blin
      Pages 357-374

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 375-390
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About this book

​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.​

Reviews

“Women’s Mental Health is an important resource for mental health professionals, policy makers, and mental and public health administrators. It provides a wealth of data, insight into women’s lived experiences, culturally sensitive recommendations, and practical solutions to the range and variety of circumstances that have a profound and lasting impact on women and their families and communities.” (Janet Etzi, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 61 (14), April, 2016)

Editors and Affiliations

  • York University, Toronto, Canada

    Nazilla Khanlou, F. Beryl Pilkington

About the editors

Dr. Khanlou is the women's health research chair in mental health in the Faculty of Health at York University and an associate professor in its School of Nursing. Professor Khanlou's clinical background is in psychiatric nursing. Her overall program of research is situated in the interdisciplinary field of community-based mental health promotion in general, and mental health promotion among youth and women in multicultural and immigrant-receiving settings in particular. Dr. Khanlou was the 2011-2013 co-director of the Ontario Multicultural Health Applied Research Network. She is founder of the International Network on Youth Integration, an international network for knowledge exchange and collaboration on youth. Dr. Pilkington is associate professor in the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health, York University, Toronto, Canada, where she has been a faculty member since 1999. From 2009 to 2012 she served as the School’s first associate director for research and graduate education, and she is currently the inaugural coordinator for an interdisciplinary BA and BSc program in global health. Dr. Pilkington’s clinical background is in maternal-newborn and women’s health. Current research includes community-based studies with youth and sole support mothers living in a marginalized neighbourhood, with a focus on resilience, health and well-being.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Women's Mental Health

  • Book Subtitle: Resistance and Resilience in Community and Society

  • Editors: Nazilla Khanlou, F. Beryl Pilkington

  • Series Title: Advances in Mental Health and Addiction

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17326-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2015

  • License: CC BY

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-17325-2Published: 04 August 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36365-3Published: 15 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-17326-9Published: 23 July 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2570-3390

  • Series E-ISSN: 2570-3404

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XL, 390

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Health Psychology, Gender Studies, Migration, Social Work

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