Women's Mental Health

"Women's Mental Health is an important resource for mental health professionals, policy makers, and mental and public health administrators. It provides a wealth of data, insight into women's lived experiences, culturally sensitive recommendations, and practical solutions to the range and variety of circumstances that have a profound and lasting impact on women and their families and communities." (Janet Etzi, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 61 (14), April, 2016)

Dr. Khanlou is the women's health research chair in mental health in the Faculty of Health at York University and an associate professor in its School of Nursing. Professor Khanlou's clinical background is in psychiatric nursing. Her overall program of research is situated in the interdisciplinary field of community-based mental health promotion in general, and mental health promotion among youth and women in multicultural and immigrant-receiving settings in particular. Dr. Khanlou was the 2011-2013 co-director of the Ontario Multicultural Health Applied Research Network. She is founder of the International Network on Youth Integration, an international network for knowledge exchange and collaboration on youth. Dr. Pilkington is associate professor in the School of Nursing, Faculty of Health, York University, Toronto, Canada, where she has been a faculty member since 1999. From 2009 to 2012 she served as the School's first associate director for research and graduate education, and she is currently the inaugural coordinator for an interdisciplinary BA and BSc program in global health. Dr. Pilkington's clinical background is in maternal-newborn and women's health. Current research includes community-based studies with youth and sole support mothers living in a marginalized neighbourhood, with a focus on resilience, health and well-being.

Part I: Structural Determinants of Women's Mental Health.- Employment, Poverty, Disability and Gender: A Rights Approach for Women with Disabilities in India, Nepal and Bangladesh.- The Mental Health of Health Care Workers - A Woman's Issue?.- What women want, what they get. Gap analysis in Pakistan of mental health services, polices, and research.- Perspectives on Violence Against Women: Social, Health, and Societal Consequences of Inter-Partner Violence.- Part II: Community, Social Support, and Women's Mental Health.- Stress, Social Support and Depression in Arab Muslim Immigrant Women in the Detroit Area of the United States.- Social Factors Affecting the Well-being and Mental Health of Elderly Iranian Immigrant Women in Canada.- The Resettlement Blues: The Role of Social Support in Newcomer Women's Mental Health.- Reflections on current societal and social context of women's mental health in Italy.- Part III: Health and Social Services, Resistance, and Women's Mental Health.- Women's Benzodiazepine Abuse: A Psychoanalytic.- Unrecoverable? Prescriptions and Possibilities for Eating Disorder Recovery Approach.- Impact of gender-based aggression on women's mental health in Portugal.- Somatization as a Major Mode of Expression of Psychological Distress in Familial and Interpersonal Relationships among Iranian Women.- Part IV: Displacement, Migration, Resettlement, and Women's Mental Health.- Mental Health and Resilience of Young African Women Refugees in an Urban Context.- Mental Health in Non-Korean Women Residing in South Korea Following Marriage to Korean Men.- The Gender Gap in Mental Health: Immigrants in Switzerland.- Focusing on Resilience in Canadian Immigrant Mothers' Mental Health.- Reinventing myself: a search for identity as an immigrant woman in my journey from Brazil to Canada.- Part V: Poverty, Marginalization, and Women's Mental Health.- Women living with homelessness: They are (almost) invisible.- Exploring women's mental health at the intersections of aging, racialization and low socioeconomic status.- The social construction of mental health inequities experienced by mothers who are socioeconomically disadvantaged during early motherhood: A Canadian Perspective.- Part VI: Motherhood, Resilience, and Women's Mental Health.- Interacting Individual, Social and Cultural Factors in Black Mothers Resilience Building Following Loss to Gun Violence in Canada.- Antenatal Depression in Immigrant Women: A Culturally Sensitive Prevention Program in Geneva (Switzerland).- Community Resilience and Community Interventions for Post-Natal Depression: Reflecting on Maternal Mental Health in Rwanda.- Mothering Bereaved Children after Perinatal Death: Implications for Women's and Children's Mental Health in Canada.