Menopause

Klappentext Organized for ease of use by today's busy mental health clinicians, "Menopause: A Mental Health Practitioner's Guide" describes the latest knowledge and clinical recommendations associated with menopause in a single, concise guide that is clearly written and comprehensive in scope. Menopause is about change?but it is also a normal life stage traversed by most women with little or no difficulty. Not all women have symptoms as they transition to menopause, and women with symptoms experience them in different combinations and levels of intensity. The management of perimenopause and menopause is also rapidly changing. The past 5 years have seen truly dramatic changes in our scientific knowledge of and medical recommendations for perimenopause and menopause. For example, until recently, hormone replacement therapy was highly advocated as an essential aspect of care for women in perimenopause and menopause. Zusammenfassung Organized for ease of use by today's busy mental health clinicians! Menopause: A Mental Health Practitioner's Guide describes the latest knowledge and clinical recommendations associated with menopause in a single! concise guide that is clearly written and comprehensive in scope.

Auteur
Donna E. Stewart, M.D., F.R.C.P.C., is University Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Anesthesia, Surgery, Medicine, and Family and Community Medicine, and Chair in Women's Health of the University Health Network at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Résumé
Organized for ease of use by today's busy mental health clinicians, Menopause: A Mental Health Practitioner's Guide describes the latest knowledge and clinical recommendations associated with menopause in a single, concise guide that is clearly written and comprehensive in scope.

Contenu
Introduction. The contexts of midlife in women. Physiology and symptoms of menopause. Effects of reproductive hormones and selective estrogen receptor modulators on the central nervous system during menopause. Mood disorders, midlife, and reproductive aging. Psychotic illness in women at perimenopause and menopause. Medical aspects of perimenopause and menopause. Gynecologic aspects of perimenopause and menopause. Beyond menopause: the psychopathology and psychotherapy of older women. Index.