Women and depression: a handbook for the social, behavioral and biomedical sciences/ edited by Corey L.M. Keyes and Sherryl H. Goodman - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. - xviii, 582 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Foreword / Rosalynn Carter --
Preface / Corey Keyes and Sherryl Goodman --
Part I: Nosology, measurement, and the epidemiology of women and depression. Depression : from nosology to global burden / Kay Wilhelm --
Epidemiology of depression in women / Ronald Kessler --
Part II: Biological, developmental, and aging models of risk. The biology underpinnings of depression / Ania Korszun, Margaret Altemus, and Elizabeth Young --
Depressive disorders in women : from menarche to beyond the menopause / Wendy Somerset [and others] --
Does puberty account for the gender differential in depression? / Laura M. DeRose, A. Jordan Wright, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn --
Women's aging and depression / Brenda Penninx --
Part III: Cognitive, emotional, and interpersonal models of risk. Cognition and depression / Joan Girgus and Susan Nolen-Hoeksema --
Personality and depression in women / Thomas A. Widiger, Stephanie Mullins-Sweatt, and Kristen G. Anderson --
The social costs of stress : how sex differences in stress responses can lead to social stress vulnerability and depression in women / Laura Cousino Klein, Elizabeth J. Corwin, and Rachel M. Ceballos --
Marriage and depression / Mark A. Whisman, Lauren M. Weinstock, and Natalie Tolejko --
Depression in women who are mothers : an integrative model of risk for the development of psychopathology in their sons and daughters / Sherryl H. Goodman and Erin Tully --
Part IV: Social, political, and economic models of risk. Social suffering, gender, and women's depression / Jeanne Marecek --
Women, work, and depression : conceptual and policy issues / Mary Clare Lennon --
Culture, race/ethnicity, and depression / Pamela Braboy Jackson and David Williams --
Trauma and depression / Kristin M. Penza, Christine Heim and Charles Nemeroff --
Public health approach to depression and women : the case of the disadvantaged inner-city woman / Claire E. Sterk, Katherine P. Theall, and Kirk W. Elifson --
Part V: Systems and processes of treatment, prevention, and policy. Services and treatment for depression : international perspectives and implications for a gender-sensitive approach / Shekhar Saxena and Pratap Sharan --
Prevention of depression in women / Tamar Mendelson and Ricardo F. Muņoz --
Women and depression : research, theory, and social policies / Jean Hamilton and Nancy F. Russo.

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