Planning Community Mental Health Services for Women: A Multiprofessional Handbook Book

	Notes on contributors
	Foreword
1	Introduction	1
2	Women's mental health in the UK	6
3	Motherhood and mental illness	20
4	Girls in distress: an unconsidered issue	36
5	Planning community mental health services for older women	51
6	Planning services for black women	65
7	Women, lesbians and community care	79
8	Women as carers of the severely mentally ill	94
	Carers and the development of community mental health policy	95
	The impact on women of caring for the mentally ill	104
9	Homeless women	112
10	Women with drug and alcohol problems	128
11	The impact of childhood sexual abuse	145
12	Women and violence	160
13	Women as abusers	176
14	Women and primary care	190
	Developing primary-care services for women	191
	A model of teamwork in the community	202
15	The user's perspective: our experiences and our recommendations	207
16	Shanti: an intercultural psychotherapy centre for women in the community	219
17	Campaigning for change	231
18	Developing psychiatric services for women	247
	Appendix: mental health services for women	259
	Author index	261
	Subject index	265