Overview
Today, most women can expect to live at least one-third of their life after menopause. As the baby-boom generation ages and the number of women who have reached menopause grows, it is essential for all mental health professionals to have a comprehensive knowledge of both the physical and the psychiatric aspects of menopause in order to provide the best possible patient care.
Written by international authorities in psychiatry, gynecology, psychology, nursing, sociology, and internal medicine, A Clinician’s Guide to Menopause is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary resource for the care and treatment of menopausal and postmenopausal women. This important guide explores menopause from a number of different perspectives and familiarizes clinicians with the medical issues associated with menopause, including physiology, symptomatology, risk factors, the medical evaluation, and hormone therapy and other medical treatments. It then covers psychiatric aspects of menopause, psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacologic treatments, and multicultural and quality of life issues. Numerous case vignettes illuminate common problems and their resolutions. This book will provide clinicians with a useful physical, psychiatric, and multidimensional context for their care of female patients.
Furnished with this broader, multidisciplinary perspective on menopause, all health care professionals who treat female patients can provide improved care and maintain patients’ quality of life during this transition.
The book contains black-and-white illustrations.
Editorials
From The Critics
Reviewer: Kelly E. Arduino, MA, LCPC(Rush University Medical Center)Description: This first edition book on the current medical and psychological understanding of the treatment of menopause is part of a series called Clinical Practice.
Purpose: The purpose is to apply the most current research and theory of menopause to clinical situations, with particular emphasis on the psychological and social factors surrounding menopause .
Audience: The Clinical Practice series is targeted toward the "clinician working outside the hospital setting." Mental health professionals and psychiatrists are the primary audience, but medical professionals interested in women's health issues could also benefit from the information presented. The editor and authors (with one exception) are physicians devoted to women's health research in the United States and Canada.
Features: The most useful feature is this book's ability to transition the reader from theory to practice and its easy reading style. The authors provide summaries of the literature and up-to-date treatment research, followed by case examples in which what we currently know about menopause is applied in a clinically meaningful way. Tables and figures are straightforward and used only when appropriate.
Assessment: This modestly priced book is a scientifically-grounded, information-packed overview of menopause. The book acknowledges the common misgivings that many women have about the various treatments in menopause and emphasize the importance of weighing individual preferences in treatment strategies. Although written at an appropriate level for the nonphysician women's health clinician, the book is also valuable to physicians for its concise, easy-to-understand overview of the field.
Kelly E. Arduino
This first edition book on the current medical and psychological understanding of the treatment of menopause is part of a series called Clinical Practice. The purpose is to apply the most current research and theory of menopause to clinical situations, with particular emphasis on the psychological and social factors surrounding menopause . The Clinical Practice series is targeted toward the "clinician working outside the hospital setting." Mental health professionals and psychiatrists are the primary audience, but medical professionals interested in women's health issues could also benefit from the information presented. The editor and authors (with one exception) are physicians devoted to women's health research in the United States and Canada. The most useful feature is this book's ability to transition the reader from theory to practice and its easy reading style. The authors provide summaries of the literature and up-to-date treatment research, followed by case examples in which what we currently know about menopause is applied in a clinically meaningful way. Tables and figures are straightforward and used only when appropriate. This modestly priced book is a scientifically-grounded, information-packed overview of menopause. The book acknowledges the common misgivings that many women have about the various treatments in menopause and emphasize the importance of weighing individual preferences in treatment strategies. Although written at an appropriate level for the nonphysician women's health clinician, the book is also valuable to physicians for its concise, easy-to-understand overview of the field.Booknews
A comprehensive, multipdisciplinary resource written by authorities in psychiatry, gynecology, psychology, nursing, sociology, and internal medicine. Coverage includes medical issues<-->including physiology, symptomatology, risk factors, the medical evaluation, and hormone therapy and other medical treatments<-->as well as psychiatric aspects of menopause, psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacologic treatments, and multicultural and quality of life issues. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.3 Stars from Doody