Contents -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Part I: Gender and Psychological Health -- 1 An Integrated View of Girls' and Women's Health: Psychology, Physiology, and Society -- 2 Risks to Healthy Development: The Somber Planes of Life -- 3 Pathways to Healthy Development: Sources of Strength and Empowerment -- Part II: Risks and Strengths Across the Life Span -- PROBLEMS AND RISKS -- 4 Assessment and Gender -- 5 Mood Disturbance Across the Life Span -- 6 Anxiety Disturbance in Girls and Women -- 7 Body Image -- 8 Serious Emotional Disturbance and Serious Mental Illness -- 9 Violence Against Girls and Women: An Integrative Developmental Perspective -- 10 Physical or Systemic Disabilities -- 11 Trauma in the Lives of Girls and Women -- 12 Substance Use and Abuse by Girls and Women -- 13 Poor Women and Girls in a Wealthy Nation -- 14 Women and Suicide -- STRENGTHS AND RESOURCES -- 15 Coping in Adolescent Girls and Women -- 16 Self-Esteem -- 17 Resilience and Empowerment -- 18 Subjective Well-Being -- 19 The Sense of Entitlement: Implications for Gender Equality and Psychological Well-Being -- 20 Balanced Living Through Self-Care -- 21 To Your Sexual Health! Incorporating Sexuality Into the Health Perspective -- 22 Women and Giving -- 23 Women and Relationships -- 24 Healthy Environments for Youth and Families -- 25 The Psychotherapeutic Relationship as a Positive and Powerful Resource for Girls and Women -- Part III: Phases of Development Within the Life Span -- CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS: AWAKENINGS -- 26 Gender Role and Gender Identity Development -- 27 The Interplay of Physical and Psychosocial Development -- 28 The Family Environment: Where Gender Role Socialization Begins -- 29 Girls and Academic Success: Changing Patterns of Academic Achievement -- 30 Gender and Schooling: Progress and Persistent Barriers.

31 Adolescent Girls' Health in the Context of Peer and Community Relationships -- 32 From Girlhood to Womanhood: Multiple Transitions in Context -- ADULTS: BALANCING -- 33 Women's Career Development -- 34 Love, Intimacy, and Partners -- 35 Women's Reproductive Health: Issues, Findings, and Controversies -- 36 The Mixed Messages of Motherhood -- 37 Family and Work Balance -- 38 Midlife Transitions -- OLDER ADULTS: WINDING DOWN AND SUMMING UP -- 39 Aging and Identity: How Women Face Later Life Transitions -- 40 Physical Health and Illness in Older Women -- 41 Older Women and Security -- 42 Bereavement -- 43 Women's Issues at the End of Life -- 44 Positive Aging: Reconstructing the Life Course -- Part IV: Special Problems and Resources -- 45 Legal Issues Influencing Girls' and Women's Psychological Health -- 46 Adaptation of Immigrant Girls and Women -- 47 Psychopharmacotherapy and Women: Issues for Consideration -- 48 Survivors of Male Violence: Research and Training Initiatives to Facilitate Recovery From Depression and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder -- 49 An Overview of Policies That Impact the Psychological Well-Being of Girls and Women -- Part V: Conclusion -- 50 Afterword -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.