Gender Differences in Mental Health by Professor Jayashri Kulkarni

Professor Jayashri Kulkarni became a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists in 1989. As the first Associate Professor/Director of Psychiatry to Dandenong Hospital in 1994, she founded and directed the Dandenong Psychiatry Research Centre (DPRC) and the Monash University Research Centre for Women's Mental Health. She was Director of Psychiatry of Dandenong Area Mental Health Service (DAMHS) for  eight years and directs a large psychiatric research group in her current appointment as Professor of Psychiatry, The Alfred and Monash University.

Take-Home Points

• 43% of Australian women (3.5 million) have experienced a mental illness at some point in their lives (2007 National Survey); 22% compared with 18% of men experienced symptoms of a mental disorder in the past 12 months.

• Women are twice as likely as men to develop depression and anxiety disorders, to have PTSD, and to attempt suicide.

• There are social, biological, and psychological gender differences which impact on mental health.

Full article: https://psychscenehub.com/vide....o/gender-differences