ABSTRACT
Behavioural Addiction in Women gives insight into ongoing research efforts and clinical developments across the globe, focusing specifically on women with behavioural addictions.
The book brings together an international network of clinicians and researchers to offer a unique transcultural female perspective on female-specific aspects of addiction, which is underrepresented in the available literature. By compiling both research and clinical spotlights focusing on women with behavioural addictions across the six continents, the book is an important first step towards building a shared knowledge base on the subject, starting from the importance of female-specific diagnostic criteria, to new therapeutic strategies, prevention programs, and harm reduction approaches. This book will help us gain a better understanding of ongoing work and where to allocate our attention and efforts for helping a vulnerable, and - in many areas of the world - still underserved, and economically disadvantaged, population.
The book will be of great interest to researchers and clinicians in the field of addiction.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |3 pages
Introduction
part I|10 pages
Africa
chapter 1|8 pages
South African Women Risk-Takers
part II|38 pages
North America
chapter 2|23 pages
Women's Wellbeing
part III|12 pages
South America
part IV|64 pages
Asia
chapter 10|17 pages
Understanding Repetitive Non-Suicidal Self-Injury and Recovery among Chinese Women
part V|154 pages
Europe
chapter 20|7 pages
Food Addiction
part VI|15 pages
Oceania