Women's Mental Health. A Clinical and Evidence-Based Guide

1. An introduction to Women's Mental HealthJeronimo Mendes-Ribeiro, Antonio Geraldo da Silva, Joel Renno Junior 2. Those we should remember: the pioneers of mother-infant psychiatryIan Brockington 3. Epidemiology of psychiatric disorders in womenMaria Carmem Viana, Rafael Bello Corassa 4. Psychometric Instruments and Women's Mental HealthJeronimo de A. Mendes-Ribeiro, Mario Francisco Juruena P Juruena, David Streiner 5. Schizophrenia in WomenMario Louza, Helio Elkis 6. Bipolar Disorder in Women: Menstrual Cycle, Perinatal Period, and Menopause TransitionLauren F. Forrest, Mara Smith, Joao Quevedo, Benicio N. Frey 7. Premenstrual Dysphoric DisorderGabriella Francesca Mattina, Meir Steiner 8. Depressive and Cognitive Disorders in Climacteric WomenJoel Renno Junior, Juliana Pires Cavalsan, Leiliane Aparecida Diniz Tamashiro 9. Anxiety disorders in womenAmaury Cantilino, Carla Fonseca Zambaldi 10. Obsessive-compulsive Disorder in WomenAlbina R. Torres, Ricardo C. Torresan, Maria Alice de Mathis, Roseli G. Shavitt 11. Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders in WomenAndrea Feijo de Mello, Mariana Rangel Maciel, Sara Motta Borges Bottino, Jose Paulo Fiks, Marcelo Feijo de Mello 12. Sexual Dysfunctions and Gender Dysphoria in WomenCarmito H. N. Abdo 13. Eating Disorders and Personality Disorders in WomenMichele de Oliveira Gonzalez, Fabio Tapia Salzano, Alexandre Azevedo, Andreza Carla Lopes, Mirella Baise, Taki Athanassios Cordas 14. Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders in WomenSilvia Brasiliano, Adriana Trejger Kachani, Fabio Carezzato, Patricia Brunfentrinker Hochgraf 15. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in WomenAntonio Geraldo da Silva, Leandro Fernandes Malloy-Diniz, Marina Saraiva Garcia, Renan Rocha 16. Suicide and Suicidality in WomenAlexandrina Maria Augusto da Silva Meleiro, Humberto Correa 17. Psychopharmacology and WomenMarcelo Allevato, Juliana Bancovsky 18. Medical conditions affecting women's mental healthSarah Ruckl, Tiago Couto, Juliana Parada, Carlos E. Rosa 19. DIET, NUTRITION AND WOMEN'S MENTAL HEALTHAdriana Trejger Kachani, Yvone Alves de Lima Furtado 20. Assisted Reproduction. General Concepts and Psychological Aspects involvedArtur Dzik, Alcina Meirelles, Ludmila Machado Neves, Nilka Fernandes Donadio, Mario Cavagna, Luiz Henrique Gebrim 21. Violence and Women's Mental HealthGislene C Valadares, Erika de Oliveira Neves, Caroline Moreira, Priscila de Almeida Costa, Sarah Mendes, Marta Rondon 22. NEUROIMAGING RESEARCH IN WOMEN'S MENTAL HEALTH: Current research and emerging trends in women's psychiatry and mental healthLuciano Minuzzi, Maiko A. Schneider, Sabrina K. Syan 23. Telehealth and women's perinatal mental healthDawn Kingston, Renan Rocha 24. Maternal Mental Health and Perinatal depressionGislene Cristina Valadares, Carolina Cassiano Rangel, Eduardo Santos, Austen Venancio Drummond, Maria Candida Alvarez Bouzada Viana, Gisele Apter 25. Psychopharmacology in Pregnancy and LactationJennifer L. Payne 26. FDA rules for Pregnancy and Lactation Labeling and its Clinical ImplicationsLauren M. Osborne, Nicole Leistkow, Renan Rocha 27. CriticaJl Assessment of Observational Studies and Shared Decision Making in Perinatal PsychiatryLauren F. Forrest, Ryan J. Van Lieshout

There is an increasing focus on medical studies related to differences between men and women, and women's mental health stands out as one of the most important fields where sex-based differences are being investigated. Overall, studies show an existence of important sex-specific differences in several aspects of psychiatric disorders such as etiology, epidemiology, clinical presentation and therapeutics. In this book, recognized experts present the current state of knowledge on this topic, providing a reliable, accurate and comprehensive clinical guide to women's mental health.

The book will steer clear of an in-depth discussion of genetics and sex-based differences to focus quickly and narrowly on how best to diagnose and treat psychiatric disorders in women, thereby offering a targeted and practical guide for clinicians. It is intended to serve a broad audience -- including psychiatrists, psychologists, family physicians, obstetricians, gynecologists, nurses, social workers and other medical and mental health providers with an interest in women's mental health.

Women's Mental Health: A Clinical and Evidence-Based Guide will be fully evidence-based and will present chapters authored by distinguished leaders with extensive experience and clinical wisdom in this area. It offers psychiatrists, psychologists, family physicians, obstetricians, gynecologists, nurses, social workers and other medical and mental health providers a valuable source of information to enhance their clinical practice.

Author Information

Joel Renno Jr., MD, PhDMD from the University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Brazil (1994). Medical residency (1997) and doctorate (2002) from the Institute of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo. Since 2013 Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo Medical School. Director of Program on Women's Mental Health at the Institute of Psychiatry Clinics Hospital University of Sao Paulo since 2000. Coordinator of the Commission of Studies and Research on Women's Mental Health, Brazilian Association of Psychiatry.
Gislene C Valadares, MD, MScPsychiatrist and master's in Pharmacology and Molecular Biochemistry from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. President of the Brazilian Association for Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Offense. Member of the Women's Mental Health Section at the World Psychiatric Association, of the International Association for Women's Mental Health and of the Women's Mental Health Research and Study Group at the Brazilian Association of Psychiatry. Member of the clinical Staff at the Women's Mental Health Service at UFMG, supervisor of the Psychiatry Residents at UFMG Medical School. Her focus areas include women's mental health, gender violence, sexual violence against women and incestuous families.
Amaury Cantilino, MD, PhDMD (1999), master's (2003) and PhD in Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (2009) from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil. Currently he is a researcher at the UFPE's Women's Mental Health Program and a supervisor of the Psychiatry Residents at the UFPE Clinical Hospital. His focus areas include women's mental health, postpartum depression, screening scales, and psychopharmacology during pregnancy and breastfeeding.
Jeronimo Mendes-Ribeiro, MDMD from the Universidade Catolica de Pelotas Medical School (Brazil). Specialist qualification in Psychiatry from the Brazilian Psychiatry Association. Clinical Research Fellow for Women's Mental Health at McMaster University (Canada).
Renan Rocha, MD, MHSSpecialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy. He is currently a researcher and psychiatrist at the Laboratory of Epidemiology, University of Southern Santa Catarina (UNESC). He has been a member of the Commission of Studies and Research on Women's Mental Health, Brazilian Association of Psychiatry, since 2012. His current research interests concern issues on evidence-based telepsychiatry.
Antonio Geraldo da Silva, MDDr. Antonio Geraldo da Silva holds a specialist qualification in Psychiatry from the Brazilian Association of Psychiatry and completed his residency in Psychiatry at the University of Brasilia. Current president of the Brazilian Association of Psychiatry.