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Written by Maya Dusenbery, this book focuses on women's experience in the healthcare systems and the injustices they face.
What is Doing Harm?
The idea that oppressions are interlinked and can't be solved or considered alone.
What is intersectionality
The failure to concieve after a year of unprotected intercourse
What is infertility?
The first menstrual period.
What is menarche?
The ability to monitor, evaluate and modify the nature and course of an emotional response in order to respond to stressors, evaluate demands and pursue goals
What is emotional regulation?
This author spent time living in Boulder, and reports negative effects of Boulder standards/life on her mental health.
Who is Susan Burton?
The model states: the smaller the vulnerability, the greater the life stress required to produce the disorder; conversely, with greater vulnerability, less life stress is required to develop a disorder
What is the diathesis stress model?
As you age, your ___ rates go down, and miscarriage and chromosomal abnormalities of oocytes increase
What is fertility?
Follicular, ovulation, luteal, menstruation
What is the menstruation cycle?
The process of focusing on one's symptoms, their possible cause in a manner that pulls people away from problem-solving and instrumental behavior (i.e. DOING something)
What is rumination?
Paranoia, delusions, inability to sleep, and loss of objective reality are all symptoms of...
What is brief psychotic disorder with postpartum onset?
Being aware of a problem exists but with no full developed commitment to action is an example of what stage of the stages of change model?
What is contemplation?
In vitro fertilization, donor egg IVF, Clomid, Letrozole, etc.
What are treatments for infertility?
Produced by ovaries, stimulates breast and hip development, causes sexual organs to mature and causes endometrium in the uterus to thicken and accept the embryo.
What is estrogen?
Cortisol is chronically elevated in individuals who have...
What is depression?
Women are going untreated for severe illnesses/pain because of this ongoing idea in medicine and society that women's uteruses male them crazy.
What is hysteria?
This model assumes disease processes can be explained in terms of underlying devotion/tissue damage and does not take into account social factors
What is the biomedical model?
Cultural competence, empowerment, safety, and collaboration are all core principles of how to treat individuals going through infertility/fertility treatment through...
What is trauma-informed treatment?
Depressive symptoms, anxiety, irritability, hot flashes, poor sleep, severe PMS, and increase in suicidality are all symptoms of...
What is perimenopause?
The fact that women secrete more oxytocin in response to stress and that oxytocin down-regulates sympathetic NS and HPA activity is related to the ____ model of stress response
What is the tend and befriend model?
This quote is from the _____: "I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo."
What is The Bell Jar?
Perceived benefits vs barriers, perceived threat, self-efficacy, and cues to action all contribute to the likelihood of engaging in health-promoting behaviors within the _____ model.
What is the health belief model?
Disruption of the release of FSH and GnRH, and inhibited follicle growth and estrogen and progesterone biosynthesis
What is the effect of stress on reproduction?
Smoking, alcohol abstainer, heavy physical activity, more pregnancies, higher BMI, oral contraceptive use, lower education and SES
What are the factors affecting the age of menopause?
Impaired cognitive and behavioral functioning, shorter attention span (and maybe ADHD?), irritability, emotional problems, prenatal maternal depression increases risk of general
psychopathology
What are the effects of prenatal stress on a developing fetus?