Mental Health Issues for Sexual Minority Women: Redefining Women's Mental HealthGet a full understanding of lesbian mental health concerns! Mental Health Issues for Sexual Minority Women: Redefining Women's Mental Health presents much-needed research on sexual orientation and sexual minority populations missing from most mental health studies. This unique book identifies three areas of concern voiced in a 1999 Institute of Medicine report on lesbian health: whether lesbians are at a higher risk of mental health problems; the need for a better understanding of lesbian orientation and diversity in the lesbian population; and the need to eliminate barriers to mental health care services for lesbians. Mental Health Issues for Sexual Minority Women addresses those concerns with theoretical and empirical work that represents a broad range of disciplines and cultures. Mental Health Issues for Sexual Minority Women covers a unique and diverse range of topics missing from most books on lesbian health. The book includes original research on issues such as:
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Contents
A Contextual Approach | 1 |
The Effects of Sexual Orientation on Body Image and Attitudes About Eating and Weight | 15 |
Challenges for Disabled Lesbians Accessing Mental Health Services | 35 |
Psychological Distress in African American Lesbian and Heterosexual Women | 51 |
Examples from a PopulationBased Survey of Young Women | 69 |
A Comparison of LesbiansBisexual Women and GayBisexual Men | 85 |
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