A women's mental health agenda.Section I. The status of women's mental health.
Abstract
The first section provides an overview of the status of women's mental health, which provides the background for the conference agenda. After discussing rates and patterns of mental disorder, the conference examined selected areas of concern: depression; physical and sexual abuse; chronically mentally ill women; homeless women; women and drugs (including prescription drugs and sex bias in psychotropic drug research); alcohol abuse and alcoholism; older women; minority women; and sex role socialization and mental health. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved)