Aromatherapy and Women’s Mental Health

An Evidence-Based Guide to Support Emotional Wellbeing

Pam Conrad (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2023
Jessica Kingsley Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-83997-624-7 (ISBN)

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Following growing popularity in aromatherapy, this comprehensive and wide-ranging guide offers expert guidance on how to use essential oils safely to support women's mental health across all ages. Conditions addressed include anxiety, depression, panic disorders, as well as discussion on grief, pregnancy, postpartum, PMS, and menopause.

With an ever-growing interest in aromatherapy as a means to manage mental health as well as the subsequent safety concerns surrounding the use and methodology of essential oils, this timely, evidence-based book offers practical guidance on how to support women's mental health through aromatherapy.
Comprehensive in its approach, this accessible text presents the history of mental health treatments, general aromatherapy, and specific practical tips and evidence-based aromatherapeutic treatments and management for conditions such as anxiety, depression, and panic disorders which is supplemented with paediatric emotional health support. It also features chapters on grief, pregnancy, postpartum, PMS, and menopause, making it a wide-ranging and holistic compendium of advice and guidance.
This new book by Pam Conrad can be read alongside her previous guide Health Aromatherapy: A Clinically Evidence-Based Guide for Nurses, Midwives, Doulas and Therapists or as a stand-alone text and is an essential read for healthcare professionals looking to expand their holistic practice and cater to women's mental health.

Pam Conrad is a registered nurse and certified clinical aromatherapy practitioner, educator and researcher with 22 years' experience developing hospital programs in evidence based women's health aromatherapy. She has a background in mental health and psychiatric nursing and has published research on postpartum depression/anxiety. She is the author of Women's Health Aromatherapy and lives in Indiana, USA.

Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1-Historical separation of Body, Mind and Spirit
Chapter 2-Aromatherapy
Chapter 3- Women's Mental Health
? History
? Data and Statistics
? Conditions specific to Women
? Reproductive rights and Mental Health
Chapter 4-Life stages and emotional challenges
? Late Teen-Young Adult
? Suicide risks and Aromatherapy
? PMS-Premenstrual Syndrome
? Pregnancy and anxiety
? Postpartum depression
? Peri-Menopause
? Postmenopause-Elderly
? Women's Grief and Loss
? Anger and chronic conditions
? Women, scent, attraction and Love
? Menstrual cycle and scent
? Cultural considerations
? Mental health evidence
Chapter 5-The Healing Space
Chapter 6 Aromatherapy and medical conditions-Integrative therapy
Chapter 7-Common Medications for Anxiety and Depression
Chapter 8-Aromatherapy Basics
Chapter 9-Methods and Safety
Chapter 10-Mental Health Aromatherapy Evidence
Chapter 11 Emerging science-Neurotransmitters, HPA and Hormones
? How does aromatherapy affect our emotions
Chapter 12-Clinical Case studies
Chapter 13-Practice tips and Recipes
Chapter 14 Pediatric supplement for moms
Authors note Epilogue-One arm behind our back

Erscheinungsdatum	23.08.2023
Vorwort	Denise Tiran
Zusatzinfo	B&W
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	212 x 136 mm
Gewicht	176 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
ISBN-10	1-83997-624-1 / 1839976241
ISBN-13	978-1-83997-624-7 / 9781839976247
Zustand	Neuware