Books in the Women's Mental Health and Development series

This comprehensive guide for mental health practitioners and medical professionals addresses the delicate issues surrounding breast cancer and the processes involved in emotional coping and healing. The book covers concerns of family members as well as women worried about developing breast cancer.

This volume presents a clear description of the problems of women offenders, a variety of treatment approaches and prospects for the future. Four chapters are devoted to the particular conditions of women's prisons, and the psychological effects on their inmates. The remaining chapters address clinical issues.

This work offers an extended discussion of key issues of career development for women, such as: how women make career choices; what difference cultural and economic background makes for a woman's career development; and how women's and men's career development patterns compare.

Providing practical help to counsellors who may not have been exposed to many aspects of women's experiences of illness, this book draws extensively from the research literature and the author's own nursing experience to identify the common ground of women who have moved through the difficulties of illness to satisfactory outcomes.