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Social and Cultural factors in depression

Social and Cultural factors in depression. By Dominic and Tobi. Etiology. The causes and origins of a disease or medical condition. Brown and Harris (1978). Conducted a study to find the social origins of depression in women

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Social and Cultural factors in depression

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  1. Social and Cultural factors in depression By Dominic and Tobi

  2. Etiology • The causes and origins of a disease or medical condition

  3. Brown and Harris (1978) • Conducted a study to find the social origins of depression in women • 29 of 32 women who were depressed had experienced a critical event in their life. • 78% of women that experienced a severe event in their life did not become depressed.

  4. Conclusion • Severe life events may lead to depression. • Life events which were similar to past experiences were more likely to lead to depression.

  5. Vulnerability model • Proposed by Brown and Harris • Factors that could increase depression: • Unemployment • Lack of social support • Raising many young children at home • Loss of mother at a early age • Childhood abuse

  6. Vulnerability model • When writing an LAQ, you can refer this model to the Diathesis-stress model which puts emphasis on biological and inherited factors.

  7. Cultural considerations • WHO (1983) has found common core symptoms in 4 different countries: Iran, Japan, Canada and Switzerland. • Symptoms include loss of interest, lack of concentration, anxiety, tension, ideas of insufficiency and inadequacy, loss of sexual interest, loss of appetite, fatigue and weight reduction. • Compliments Murphy’s study in 1967

  8. Cultural considerations • Prince (1968) showed that depression was not found in Asian and African countries but depression rates rose in countries that were former colonies. • Modern researchers state that depression in non-modernized countries expressed depression differently. • Have problems in diagnosis.

  9. Cultural considerations • Kleinman (1982) found that in China depression is described using somatic symptoms, referring to body aches and headaches • Marsella (1979) found that in individualistic cultures affective symptoms (shown by dysfunctional moods) are more common. • Symptoms include sadness and feelings of isolation.

  10. Cultural considerations • Core symptoms identified in many cultures. • Different cultures have different symptoms of depression.

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