Women's Mental Health Issues Reflections on Past Attitudes and Present Practices

Abstract

Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services | More women than men are diagnosed as being (mentally ill (Faugier, 1992; Prehn & Thomas, 1990), and women comprise a larger than average share of hospitalized psychiatric patients. Historically, women have been treated differently from their male counterparts by the mental health system (analysis to follow).In this northern Ontario city clinical records reveal that over the past 4 years an