Product Description: Women and Psychiatric Treatment provides a practical guide to the challenge of preserving fairness in access and quality of provision of health care and argues that equity is only achievable through greater recognition of gender differences...read more

Product Description: A Public Health Perspective of Women’s Mental Health Edited by Bruce Lubotsky Levin and Marion Ann Becker   As many as one-half of all women in the U.S. will experience some form of mental illness in their lives―an especially distressing fact when health care budgets are in flux, adding to existing disparities and unmet health needs...read more

Product Description: Explore women’s first-person experiences with the mental health establishment!This unique contemporary anthology of women’s experiential writing shares women’s realities, perceptions, and experiences (positive and negative) within the therapeutic environment...read more

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Product Description: The policy of moving mental health care back into the community is intended to provide a more appropriate and flexible range of services adapted to the needs of the users of the services. However, the number of mental health settings which meet the particular needs of women are few...read more