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This comprehensive update of the popular second edition of Burt and Hendrick's Concise Guide to Women's Mental Health provides the latest evidence-based findings related to the biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors that influence women's mental health, with particular emphasis on hormonal and reproductive transitions in the female life cycle. Readers will also find practical information about the assessment and management of psychiatric conditions specific to women, including guidance on gender-sensitive differential diagnosis, case formulation, and treatment planning.This concise manual offers extensively revised chapters on premenstrual dysphoric disorder, hormonal contraception and its effects on mood, psychiatric disorders during pregnancy and the postpartum period, induced abortion and pregnancy loss, infertility, perimenopause and menopause, gender issues in the treatment of mental illness, and female-specific cancers. For handy reference in clinical situations, the book also features extensive references, more than 50 carefully annotated tables and charts, and summary passages that emphasize the key evidence-based data.Easily accessed by clinicians from all medical and mental health disciplines, as well as by the lay public, the Clinical Manual of Women's Mental Health is an essential resource for every health professional who treats women-from students, interns, and residents to experienced practitioners and researchers working in psychiatry, family medicine, internal medicine, internal medicine subspecialties, and obstetrics-gynecology.

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