Current opinion in psychiatry
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Curr Opin Psychiatry · Jul 2009
ReviewMilitary deployment: the impact on children and family adjustment and the need for care.
Over a million children and their families have now experienced the stress of the deployment of a family member during the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Whereas there is an extensive clinical literature about the developmental challenges facing children and issues of family adjustment, there is a lack of systematic research. This review summarizes the findings of recent publications. ⋯ A substantial advantage of focusing on family adjustment is that it can facilitate access to mental healthcare for veterans while assisting families' positive adaptation.
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Curr Opin Psychiatry · Jul 2009
ReviewEmergent research in the cause of mental illness in women across the lifespan.
In recent years, there has been an increased appreciation of gender and sex differences in mental illness. This perspective has included attention to sex differences in neurobiology, neurochemistry, sex steroids, endocrine sex reactivity and psychosocial stressors. However, emerging research investigating gene-environment interactions presents another layer of complexity in understanding sex differences in epidemiology, clinical features and treatment of mental disorders across the lifespan. ⋯ Further research into sex-specific gene-environment interactions across the lifespan is needed with the goal of improving preventive efforts and optimizing treatment in women's mental health.