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Refugee Women and Their Mental Health

Shattered Societies, Shattered Lives

By: Ellen Cole,Esther D Rothblum,Oliva M Espin

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Refugee Women and Their Mental Health

Shattered Societies, Shattered Lives

By: Ellen Cole,Esther D Rothblum,Oliva M Espin

Currently, there are over 15 million legally designated refugees all over the world and it is documented that 75 percent of those refugees are women, yet most of the existent literature does not focus on this group as women. Most of the literature focuses on political, economic, and social issues with very little reference to the mental health implications of the refugees’experiences as women. Refugee Women and Their Mental Health begins to fill this paucity of information on female refugees’experiences. A book of immediate interest, Refugee Women and Their Mental Health focuses on understanding the plight of women refugees around the world, with an emphasis on mental health. The book adds successful and innovative treatment and recovery models for these women survivors. Some of the chapters are written by women who are therapists/psychologists now and who have been refugees themselves. This adds additional insight into the plight and resulting mental health problems of refugee women. The chapters cover a vast range of topics: torture and sexual abuse as refugees/victims of state violence elderly women refugees immigration law and women refugees first-person narratives the transformation of identity successful creative treatment programs It becomes clear that women refugees from all over the world under different political events and circumstances share common values and have similar mental health needs. Refugee Women and Their Mental Health explores processes of recovery from the traumas experienced by these women and offers a variety of models for the application of feminist theory to the plight of women refugees. Experienced therapists of women and those in training to be therapists will want to read this book. The topics of refugee women rarely comes up in training programs, so the information in this book is vital for therapists, policy makers, and other service providers and professors of psychology of women, immigration and social work issues, and women and mental health issues.

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Routledge

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1135837600

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Women Crossing Boundaries

A Psychology of Immigration and Transformations of Sexuality

By: Oliva Espin

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Women Crossing Boundaries

A Psychology of Immigration and Transformations of Sexuality

By: Oliva Espin

First published in 1999. This book looks at the consequences of border crossings and immigration on women and their culture and sexual orientations. Espin demonstrates how deeply sexuality, language and gender affected by this large life change with the aid of 43 biographies of adolescent and adult women.

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214

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Routledge

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1135963843

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9781135963842

Women, Sainthood, and Power

A Feminist Psychology of Cultural Constructions

By: Oliva M. Espín

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Women, Sainthood, and Power

A Feminist Psychology of Cultural Constructions

By: Oliva M. Espín

Women, Sainthood, and Power explores the life stories of an international gallery of female saints from the wide-angle lens of several intellectual disciplines and the close-up view afforded by keenly observed fine points of character. Oliva M. Espín combines multidisciplinary scholarly research with a novelist’s eye for detail to create vivid portraits of saints in their times and places. Using her own memories, Espín argues that there are lessons to learn today from the lives of these exceptional women. This book is recommended for scholars and students of psychology, religious studies, gender and women’s studies, history, cultural studies, and ethnic studies.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498581544

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9781498581547

Women Crossing Boundaries

A Psychology of Immigration and Transformations of Sexuality

By: Oliva Espin

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Women Crossing Boundaries

A Psychology of Immigration and Transformations of Sexuality

By: Oliva Espin

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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1135963851

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9781135963859

Latina Realities

Essays On Healing, Migration, And Sexuality

By: Oliva Espin

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Latina Realities

Essays On Healing, Migration, And Sexuality

By: Oliva Espin

A retrospective of fifteen years, this book brings together, for the first time, Oliva Espín's previously published articles and conference papers. Together, these writings reveal the complexity and encompassing quality of Espín's most significant contributions to the contemporary debates within psychology. Topics include sexuality, therapy with Latinas and other women of color, immigrant and refugee women, ethnic minority and immigrant women of diverse sexual orientations, and theoretical perspectives on feminist psychology and diversity.Primarily focusing on the experiences of Latina women, gleaned from psychotherapy practice and research, the book presents discussions on experience as a source of theory and method in psychology; issues relevant to immigrant women and girls, such as sexuality and language; and other similar topics.Latina Realities is bound to be a valuable text for advanced courses exploring diversity in psychology and women's lives as well as a useful supplementary reading for introductory courses in psychology of women, women's studies, cultural psychology, and other gender or ethnic issues courses.

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Westview Press

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0813332346

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9780813332345

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