This book integrates the role of gender in girls' and women's development across the life span, looking specifically at internal and external vulnerabilities and risks, and the protective or supportive factors that facilitate effective coping, positive growth, strength, and resilience. Foreword vii Norine G. Johnson Contributors xvii Part I Gender and Psychological Health An Integrated View of Girls' and Women's Health: Psychology, Physiology, and Society 3(12) Carol D. Goodheart Risks to Healthy Development: The Somber Planes of Life 15(10) Cheryl Brown Travis Pathways to Healthy Development: Sources of Strength and Empowerment 25(15) Judith Worell Part II Risks and Strengths Across the Life Span Problems and Risks Assessment and Gender 40(11) Marcia C. Linn Cathy Kessel Mood Disturbance Across the Life Span 51(9) Valerie E. Whiffen Natasha Demidenko Anxiety Disturbance in Girls and Women 60(9) Wendy K. Silverman Rona Carter Body Image 69(8) Linda Smolak Serious Emotional Disturbance and Serious Mental Illness 77(8) Diane T. Marsh Violence Against Girls and Women: An Integrative Developmental Perspective 85(9) Jacquelyn W. White James M. Frabutt Physical or Systemic Disabilities 94(9) Rhoda Olkin Trauma in the Lives of Girls and Women 103(10) Janis Sanchez-Hucles Kimberly Gamble Substance Use and Abuse by Girls and Women 113(9) Lula A. Beatty Cora Lee Wetherington Dionne J. Jones Adele B. Roman Poor Women and Girls in a Wealthy Nation 122(7) Deborah Belle Lisa Dodson Women and Suicide 129(9) Lillian M. Range Strengths and Resources Coping in Adolescent Girls and Women 138(11) Patricia A. Bennett Susan H. McDaniel Self-Esteem 149(8) Oksana Malanchuk Jacquelynne S. Eccles Resilience and Empowerment 157(9) Virginia E. O'Leary Jeshmin Bhaju Subjective Well-Being 166(9) Sonja Lyubomirsky Rene Dickerhoof The Sense of Entitlement: Implications for Gender Equality and Psychological Well-Being 175(8) Vanessa L. McGann Janice M. Steil Balanced Living Through Self-Care 183(9) Carol Williams-Nickelson To Your Sexual Health! Incorporating Sexuality Into the Health Perspective 192(8) Lucia F. O'Sullivan M. C. McCrudden Deborah L. Tolman Women and Giving 200(8) Michele Harway Roberta L. Nutt Women and Relationships 208(10) Mary M. Brabeck Kalina M. Brabeck Healthy Environments for Youth and Families 218(11) Karen Fraser Wyche The Psychotherapeutic Relationship as a Positive and Powerful Resource for Girls and Women 229(13) Lucia Albino Gilbert Lisa K. Kearney Part III Phases of Development Within the Life Span Children and Adolescents: Awakenings Gender Role and Gender Identity Development 242(10) Susan A. Basow The Interplay of Physical and Psychosocial Development 252(210) Annette M. La Greca Eleanor Race Mackey Karen Bearman Miller The Family Environment: Where Gender Role Socialization Begins 262(10) Phyllis Bronstein Girls and Academic Success: Changing Patterns of Academic Achievement 272(11) Diane F. Halpern Gender and Schooling: Progress and Persistent Barriers 283(9) Judith L. Meece Kathryn Scantlebury Adolescent Girls' Health in the Context of Peer and Community Relationships 292(9) Bridget M. Reynolds Rena L. Repetti From Girlhood to Womanhood: Multiple Transitions in Context 301(11) Niva Piran Erin Ross Adults: Balancing Women's Career Development 312(9) Nancy E. Betz Love, Intimacy, and Partners 321(9) Susan S. Hendrick Women's Reproductive Health: Issues, Findings, and Controversies 330(9) Linda J. Beckman The Mixed Messages of Motherhood 339(11) Joy K. Rice Nicole Else-Quest Family and Work Balance 350(9) Faye J. Crosby Laura Sabattini Midlife Transitions 359(11) Claire A. Etaugh Judith S. Bridges Older Adults: Winding Down and Summing Up Aging and Identity: How Women Face Later Life Transitions 370(9) Susan Krauss Whitbourne Karyn M. Skultety Physical Health and Illness in Older Women 379(9) S. Deborah Majerovitz Older Women and Security 388(9) Bonnie Markham Bereavement 397(9) Deborah Carr Jung-Hwa Ha Women's Issues at the End of Life 406(10) Dolores Gallagher-Thompson Jennifer Dillinger Heather L. Gray Veronica Cardenas Lani Singer Shannon Hsu Positive Aging: Reconstructing the Life Course 416(11) Mary M. Gergen Kenneth J. Gergen Part IV Special Problems and Resources Legal Issues Influencing Girls' and Women's Psychological Health 427(12) Lenore E. A. Walker Adaptation of Immigrant Girls and Women 439(8) Melba J. T. Vasquez Ay Ling Han Cynthia De Las Fuentes Psychopharmacotherapy and Women: Issues for Consideration 447(8) Debra Lina Dunivin Survivors of Male Violence: Research and Training Initiatives to Facilitate Recovery From Depression and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder 455(12) Veronica M. Herrera Mary P. Koss Jennifer Bailey Nicole P. Yuan Erika L. Lichter An Overview of Policies That Impact the Psychological Well-Being of Girls and Women 467(14) Sherry Glied Sharon Kofman Part V Conclusion Afterword 481(2) Carol D. Goodheart Judith Worell Index 483