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The Handbook of Women, Stress and Trauma focuses on the stresses and traumas that are unique to the lives of women. It is the first text to merge research from the fields of trauma and women's health and development. Using a lifespan developmental approach, the text begins by addressing specific issues women face in their lives, drawing upon theories of development and exploring how women's relationships with others buffer - or sometimes cause - stress and trauma. Combining aspects of female development with empirical data from the fields of women's health, family violence and stress and coping, this volume helps sensitive care providers to the specific needs of women exposed to traumatic events.

Military psychology has become one of the world’s fastest-growing disciplines with ever-emerging new applications of research and development. The Routledge International Handbook of Military Psychology and Mental Health is a compendium of chapters by internationally renowned scholars in the field, bringing forth the state of the art in the theory, practice and future prospects of military psychology. This uniquely interdisciplinary volume deliberates upon the current issues and applications of military psychology not only within the military organization and the discipline of psychology, but also in the larger context of its role of building a better world. Split into three parts dedicated to specific themes, the first part of the book, \"Military Psychology: The Roots and the Journey,\" provides an overview of the evolution of the discipline over the years, delving into concepts as varied as culture and cognition in the military, a perspective on the role of military psychology in future warfare and ethical issues. The second part, \"Soldiering: Deployment and Beyond,\" considers the complexities involved in soldiering in view of the changing nature of warfare, generating a focal discourse on various aspects of military leadership, soldier resilience and post-traumatic growth in the face of extreme situations, bravery and character strengths and transitioning to civilian life. In the final section, \"Making a Choice: Mental Health Issues and Prospects in the Military,\" the contributors focus on the challenges and practices involved in maintaining the mental health of the soldier, covering issues ranging from stress, mental health and well-being, through to suicide risk and its prevention, intervention and management strategies, moral injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. Incorporating enlightening contributions of eminent scholars from around the world, the volume is a comprehensive repository of current perspectives and future directions in the domain of military psychology. It will prove a valuable resource for mental health practitioners, military leaders, policy-makers and academics and students across a range of disciplines. Foreword by Professor Michael D. Matthews, Ph.D., U.S Military Academy; Preface; About the Contributors; Part 1: Military Psychology: The Roots and the Journey ; Chapter 1: Military Psychology in War and Peace: An Appraisal, Swati Mukherjee and Updesh Kumar; Chapter 2: War, Peace and the Military in Biblical and Ancient Greek Societies, Matthew B. Schwartz and Kalman J. Kaplan; Chapter 3: Four Stages in the Evolution of Military Enlisted Testing, Michael G. Rumsey; Chapter 4: Polemology: Orphan of Military Psychology, Jacques J. Gouws; Chapter 5: The Application of Culture and Cognition within a Military Context, Faizan Imtiaz, Mark Khei, and Li-Jun Ji; Chapter 6: Military Psychology and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Implications for the South African National Defence Force’s Directorate Psychology, Petrus C. Bester; Chapter 7: War of the Future and Prospective Directions of Military Psychology, Alexander G. Karayani; Chapter 8: Ethical Issues in Military Psychology: Promoting International Ethical Readiness, Thomas E. Myers and Shane S. Bush; Part 2: Soldiering: Deployment and Beyond ; Chapter 9: Shaping Military Leaders: Role of Character Strengths and Virtues, Archana, Samridhi Ahuja and Updesh Kumar; Chapter 10: Posttraumatic Growth in Military Populations: Theory, Research, and Application, K.C. Kalmbach and Bret A. Moore; Chapter 11: Building Resilience and Hardiness in Military Leaders –Robustness Training Programs of the German Army, Oliver Krueckel, Annett Heidler, Nicola von Luedinghausen, Markus Auschekis and Matthias Soest; Chapter 12: Sustainable Team Leadership: Social Identity and Collective Leadership for Military and Society, António P. Rosinha, Hermes Andrade Junior and Marcos Aguiar de Souza; Chapter 13: The Physical Bravery Study: Findings and Implications for Small, Innovative Research Studies with Military/Veteran Populations, Kristen J. Vescera, Jacie Brown, Catherine Hausman, and Bruce Bongar; Chapter 14: Military Recruiting in the United States: Selection, Assessment, Training, Well-being, and Performance Coaching, Steven V. Bowles, Bettina Schmid, Laurel K. Cofell Rashti, Susan J. Scapperotti, Tracy D. Smith, Paul T. Bartone and Peter Mikoski; Chapter 15: Validity Assessment in Military Psychology, Noah K. Kaufman and Shane S. Bush; Chaprer 16: Reintegration and Military Family Health: Military Training and its Relationship to Post-Deployment Role Conflict in Intimate Partner Relationships, E. Ann Jeschke, Jessica M. LaCroix, Amber M. Fox, Laura A. Novak, and Marjan Ghahramanlou Holloway; Chapter 17: Lone Wolf Terrorism, Bruce Bongar, Anna Feinman, and Renata Sargon; Chapter 18: Why Do They Leave? A Conceptual Model of Military Turnover, H. Canan Sümer and Ipek Mete; Chapter 19: Transition from Military to Civilian Life, Harprit Kaur and Swati; Part 3: Making a Choice: Mental Health Issues and Prospects in the Military ; Chapter 20: Militaries’ Burnout and Work Engagement: A Qualitative Systematic Literature Review, Maria José Chambel, Silvia Lopes, Filipa Castanheira and Carolina Rodrigues-Silveira; Chapter 21: Stress, Burnout and Coping in Military Environment, Yonel Ricardo de Souza and Fabio Biasotto Feitosa; Chapter 22: Stress Experiences and Abilities to Cope: Civil Population versus Military Personnel, Vijay Parkash; Chapter 23: Military Related Mental Health Morbidities: A Neurobiological Approach, Shobit Garg and Jyoti Mishra Pandey; Chapter 24: Clinical Health Psychology Applications in Military Settings, Ryaja Johnson and Larry C. James; Chapter 25: Suicide Prevention Strategies in Military Populations, Marissa N. Eusebio, Abigale Brady, and Bruce Bongar; Chapter 26: Military Sexual Trauma and Suicidal Self-Directed Violence: A Narrative Review and Proposed Agenda for Future Research, Lindsey L. Monteith, Ryan Holliday, Tim Hoyt and Nazanin H. Bahraini; Chapter 27: Understanding Suicide among Female Veterans: A Theory-Driven Approach, Lindsey L. Monteith, Ryan Holliday, Diana P. Brostow and Claire A. Hoffmire; Chapter 28: Resilience and Stress in Military Combat Flight Engineers, Reoot Cohen-Koren, Dror Garbi, Shirley Gordon, Nirit Yavnai, Yifat Erlich Shoham and Leah Shelef; Chapter 29: Family Based Psychological Interventions: A Heuristic Approach, Jyoti Mishra Pandey and Shobit Garg; Chapter 30: Chronic Disease Risk and Service-Related Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Military Veterans, Jeanne Mager Stellman and Steven D. Stellman; Chapter 31: Neurotransmitter and Neurotrophic Biomarkers in Combat Related PTSD, Gordana Nedic Erjavec, Matea Nikolac Perkovic, Dubravka Svob Strac, Lucija Tudor and Nela Pivac; Chapter 32: Neuroendocrine and Immune Biomarkers of PTSD in Combat Veterans, Nela Pivac, Marcela Konjevod, Marina Sagud, Suzana Uzun, and Oliver Kozumplik; Chapter 33: Moral Injury in Service Members and Veterans, Sheila Frankfurt, Alanna Coady, Breanna Grunthal, Stephanie Ellickson-Larew and Bret T. Litz; Chapter 34: Student Service Members/Veterans’ Mental Health on Campuses: Risk and Resources, Dan Nyaronga; Chapter 35: Resilience and Clinical Issues in Survival Behaviour under Isolation and Captivity, Vasile Marineanu \"Today military commanders across the world are experiencing widespread stress and mental health issues in their organisations. This book has outstanding psychological prescriptions for military commanders and psychologists alike. A compelling read.\" - Lt. General Dushyant Singh, Commandant, Army War College, India \"This handbook, comprised of an international team of experts, is an extremely valuable resource of empirical, theoretical and practical knowledge for military psychology students and practitioners.\" - Colonel (R) Reuven Gal, Ph.D., Former Chief Psychologist, Israeli Defense Forces \"This outstanding work covers important topics often overlooked in the professional literature. Connecting theoretical concepts to practical applications, an impressive team of military psychology experts give readers a book they will want to keep close at hand\" - Colonel (R) Bruce E. Crow, Psy.D., Former U.S. Army Chief Psychologist \"This volume is remarkable in its breadth, covering the ancient history of military psychology to the latest developments in assisting military service members preparing for combat and preparing to return to civilian life.\" - Richard G. Tedeschi, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina, USA \"A 'must-have' for every military psychologist, this book is a unique reference that transcends national borders, providing solid scientific research and thoughtful ethical discussions amid a perspective that captures the historical and prospective use of military psychology.\" - Colonel (R) Sally C. Harvey, Ph.D., U.S. Army Psychologist Updesh Kumar, Ph.D., is Scientist ‘G’ and Head, Mental Health Division, Defence Institute of Psychological Research (DIPR), Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Ministry of Defence, New Delhi, India.

Service user involvement in mental health research poses specific challenges for both researchers and service users. The book describes the relevant background and principles underlying the concept of service user involvement in mental health research, providing relevant practical advice on how to engage with service users and how to build and maintain research collaboration on a professional level. It highlights common practical problems in service user involvement, based on experience from various countries with different social policies and suggests ways to avoid pitfalls and common difficulties. The book helps researchers decide which level of service user involvement will be adequate for their research activities and what will be feasible in view of the practicalities involved. It is also ideal for service users who are interested in becoming involved in research, providing relevant background information on the possibilities of involvement in professional research.

With original and engaging contributions, this Handbook confirms feminist scholarship in development studies as a vibrant research field. It reveals the diverse ways that feminist theory and practice inform and shape gender analysis and development policies, bridging generations of feminists from different institutions, disciplines and regions.

This handbook provides an overview and synthesis of relevant literature related to the issue of the well-being of working women.This focus addresses a gap that currently exists in the quality-of-life and well-being fields.The work of the authors answers the following broad questions: Does gender matter in the well-being of working women?.

Scholars turn to reproduction for its ability to illuminate the practices involved with negotiating personhood for the unborn, the newborn, and the already-existing family members, community members, and the nation. The scholarship in this volume draws attention to doula work as intimate and relational while highlighting the way boundaries are created, maintained, challenged, and transformed. Intimate labour as a theoretical construct provides a way to think about the kind of care doulas offer women across the reproductive spectrum. Doulas negotiate boundaries and often blur the divisions between communities and across public and private spheres in their practice of intimate labour. This book weaves together three main threads: doulas and mothers, doulas and their community, and finally, doulas and institutions. The lived experience of doulas illustrates the interlacing relationships among all three of these threads. The essays in this collection offer a unique perspective on doulas by bringing together voices that represent the full spectrum of doula work, including the viewpoints of birth, postpartum, abortion, community based, adoption, prison, and radical doulas. We privilege this broad representation of doula experiences to emphasize the importance of a multi-vocal framing of the doula experience. As doulas move between worlds and learn to live in liminal spaces, they occupy space that allows them to generate new cultural narratives about birthing bodies.s that represent the full spectrum of doula work, including the viewpoints of birth, postpartum, abortion, community based, adoption, prison, and radical doulas. We privilege this broad representation of doula experiences to emphasize the importance of a multi-vocal framing of the doula experience. As doulas move between worlds and learn to live in liminal spaces, they occupy space that allows them to generate new cultural narratives about birthing bodies.s that represent the full spectrum of doula work, including the viewpoints of birth, postpartum, abortion, community based, adoption, prison, and radical doulas. We privilege this broad representation of doula experiences to emphasize the importance of a multi-vocal framing of the doula experience. As doulas move between worlds and learn to live in liminal spaces, they occupy space that allows them to generate new cultural narratives about birthing bodies.s that represent the full spectrum of doula work, including the viewpoints of birth, postpartum, abortion, community based, adoption, prison, and radical doulas. We privilege this broad representation of doula experiences to emphasize the importance of a multi-vocal framing of the doula experience. As doulas move between worlds and learn to live in liminal spaces, they occupy space that allows them to generate new cultural narratives about birthing bodies.

This handbook presents the histories, status, and contours of feminist research and practice in regional and/or national contexts. Global experts present their perspectives on women, culture, and rights to illuminate the diverse forms of feminist psychological work.

The “woman question,” this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. Rethinking gender as a Western construction, Oyewumi offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures. Winner of the American Sociological Association Sex & Gender Section's 1998 \"Distinguished Book Award.\"

Al Huraibi addresses three questions: how do Somali immigrants negotiate gender notions and practices between those maintained in Somali culture and those adopted from mainstream American culture; how immigrants' understandings of Islamic writings on gender shape the negotiation process and how the integration process shapes their understanding of Islamic gender discourse; and to what extent resultant gender perceptions and practices reflect the transnational integration and cultural hybridism of two or more cultures. Al Huraibi concludes that respondents' cross-cultural selection of aspects from both cultures indicates a transnational pattern of integration in a globalized world. She argues, contrary to common perceptions, that Islam enables Muslim immigrants to distance themselves from certain aspects of the culture left behind and to embrace aspects from the host culture. All in order to be better Muslims.