Counseling Depressed Women (Counseling and Pastoral Theology)

By Susan J. Dunlap

Book Overview

Why do women suffer depression twice as often as men? Susan Dunlap integrates findings from biology, psychology, sociology, and theology to discover that powerlessness is a cause of depression. Based... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0664256678
• ISBN13: 9780664256678
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"

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Table of Contents

Chapter One: Women, Depression, and Theology Chapter Two: Cognitive Therapy (Cognitive Therapy in the Parish Setting, A Typical course of Therapy, Cognitive Therapy and Women, Cognitive Therapy and the Biopsychosocial Model) Chapter Three: Social Location (Women and Access to Power, Cognitive Therapy and Resistance) Chapter Four: Self (Self and Intimacy, Self and Work, The Pastoral Counseling of Women's Selves, The Socially Constructed Self, The Bell Jar) Chapter Five: Relationship (Female Depression and Male Narcissism, Depression and Family Systems, Relationship as Resource in Pastoral Counseling, Writing a Woman's Life) Chapter Six: Women's Bodies (Women's Bodies as Commodities, Depression's Distortions and Culture's Lies, Physical Vulnerability, Women's Bodies and Reproduction) Chapter Seven: Anger (Anger and Depression, Social Context of Women's Anger, Christian Theology and Women's Anger, Depression as Strategy?, Pastoral Counseling of Angry Depressed Women) Chapter Eight: Hope (Hope, Care and Time; Women Hopefully Speaking of God, Qualities of Hope)