Talk:Depression and culture

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I have a student who would like to add information about how different cultures view and treat depression. She will post here her possible sources and wait to see if they are acceptable Greta Munger (talk) 15:40, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

Okay Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 19:10, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

Proposal for Article Edits

I would like to begin the process of adding information regarding depression within specific cultures to this article. My plan is to make edits to the Society and Culture section and summarize how depression varies across cultures. Then I would like to include a sub-section for Arab Cultures and present the current research on depression related to each culture.

I plan to use current, peer-reviewed journal articles and back these articles up with information from textbooks, encyclopedias, and other specialized texts. Below are the sources I intend to use for the revision of this article:

Books:

Andrews, L. W. (2010). Encyclopedia of depression. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Press.

Bhugra, D. (2007). Textbook of cultural psychiatry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Cuéllar, I., & Paniagua, F. A. (2000). Handbook of Multicultural Mental Health: Assessment and Treatment of Diverse Populations. San Diego: Academic Press.

Gotlib, I. H., & Hammen, C. L. (2009). Handbook of depression (2nd ed.). New York: Guilford Press.

Gregg, G. S. (2005). The Middle East a cultural psychology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Herrman, H. S., & Maj, M. N. (2009). Focusing on Asia. Depressive disorders (3nd ed., ). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Leong, F. T. (2007). Handbook of Asian American psychology (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications.

Matsumoto, D. R. (2001). The handbook of culture & psychology. New York: Oxford University Press. Reinecke, M. A. (2002). Comparative treatments of depression. New York: Springer Pub.

Journal Articles:

Falicov, C. (2003). Culture, society and gender in depression. Journal Of Family Therapy, 25(4), 371-387. doi:10.1111/1467-6427.00256

• Contributions of gender, class, race to depression

Scott, J., & Dickey, B. (2003). Global burden of depression: The intersection of culture and medicine. British Journal Of Psychiatry, 183(2), 92-94. doi:10.1192/bjp.183.2.92

• Discusses the disease as a global burden and highlights the Longitudinal Investigation of Depression Outcomes (LIDO) project

Abou-Saleh, M. T., Karim, L., & Krymsky, M. (1998). The biology of depression in Arab culture. Nordic Journal Of Psychiatry, 52(2), 177-182. doi:10.1080/08039489850139067

• Study with Arab participants – biological markers of depression are consistent between Arab and Western populations

Asvat, Y., & Malcarne, V. L. (2008). Acculturation and depressive symptoms in Muslim university students: Personal-family acculturation match. International Journal Of Psychology, 43(2), 114-124. doi:10.1080/00207590601126668

• Study with Arab-Muslim students – highlights links between acculturation and symptoms of depression

Dwairy, M. (2009). Culture analysis and metaphor psychotherapy with Arab-Muslim clients. Journal Of Clinical Psychology, 65(2), 199-209. doi:10.1002/jclp.20568

• Therapy methods to use with Arab-Muslims

Hamdi, E., Amin, Y., & Abou-Saleh, M. T. (1997). Problems in validating endogenous depression in the Arab culture by contemporary diagnostic criteria. Journal Of Affective Disorders, 44(2-3), 131-143. doi:10.1016/S0165-0327(97)00037-2

• Study with Arab participants - highlights need for non-western treatment on depressed Arab patients

Sulaiman, S. Y., Bhugra, D., & De Silva, P. (2001). The development of a culturally sensitive symptom checklist for depression in Dubai. Transcultural Psychiatry, 38(2), 219-229. doi:10.1177/136346150103800205

• Study with Arab participants – identified symptoms of depression relevant to the culture

Walpole, S., McMillan, D., House, A., Cottrell, D., & Mir, G. (2013). Interventions for treating depression in Muslim patients: A systematic review. Journal Of Affective Disorders, 145(1), 11-20. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2012.06.035

• Highlights treatments for depression in Arab-Muslim patients

Chae, D. H., Lee, S., Lincoln, K. D., & Ihara, E. S. (2012). Discrimination, family relationships, and major depression among Asian Americans. Journal Of Immigrant And Minority Health, 14(3), 361-370. doi:10.1007/s10903-011-9548-4

• Study with Asian-Americans – family support associated with lower depression

Gupta, A., Leong, F., Valentine, J. C., & Canada, D. D. (2013). A meta‐analytic study: The relationship between acculturation and depression among Asian Americans. American Journal Of Orthopsychiatry, 83(2-3), 372-385. doi:10.1111/ajop.12018

• Highlights links between acculturation and symptoms of depression

Kleinman, A. (2004). Culture and Depression. The New England Journal Of Medicine, 351(10), 951-953. doi:10.1056/NEJMp048078

• Symptoms of depression in Chinese people

Sangalang, C. C., & Gee, G. C. (2012). Depression and anxiety among Asian Americans: The effects of social support and strain. Social Work, 57(1), 49-60. doi:10.1093/sw/swr005

• Study with Asian participants – family support associated with decreased odds of depression

Sin, M., Jordan, P., & Park, J. (2011). Perceptions of depression in Korean American immigrants. Issues In Mental Health Nursing, 32(3), 177-183. doi:10.3109/01612840.2010.536611

• Depression is often unrecognized and untreated in minority immigrants

• Study with Korean participants – lacked understanding of depression

Wong, D., Xuesong, H., Poon, A., & Lam, A. (2012). Depression literacy among Chinese in Shanghai, China: A comparison with Chinese-speaking Australians in Melbourne and Chinese in Hong Kong. Social Psychiatry And Psychiatric Epidemiology, 47(8), 1235-1242. doi:10.1007/s00127-011-0430-4

• Study with Chinese participants in Shaghai – highlights lack of depression-related knowledge in Asian societies

Wong, Y., Kim, S., & Tran, K. K. (2010). Asian Americans’ adherence to Asian values, attributions about depression, and coping strategies. Cultural Diversity And Ethnic Minority Psychology, 16(1), 1-8. doi:10.1037/a0015045

• Adherence to Asian values linked with attributing depression to internal causes

• Reviews coping strategies

Yeung, A., Neault, N. N., Sonawalla, S. S., Howarth, S. S., Fava, M. M., & Nierenberg, A. A. (2002). Screening for major depression in Asian-Americans: A comparison of the Beck and the Chinese Depression Inventory. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 105(4), 252-257. doi:10.1034/j.1600-0447.2002.1092.x

• Study with Chinese participants – the Beck Depression Inventory and Chinese Depression Inventory have comparable effectiveness

Ayahmed17 (talk) 15:19, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

Good. You may find that, to do justice to the topic, you need to write more than can fit in this broad overview article. Consider starting a new article - Depression and culture or similar, summarising it here in one or two paragraphs, and linking to it in your summary. If you need any help with anything or have any queries, ask at WikiProject Medicine or ask me at my my talk page. If you want to start "Depression and culture" just click here and start typing. --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 19:42, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

Please made sure you only use secondary sources per WP:MEDRS. If you are not sure what a secondary source is feel free to ping me for further explanation. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 20:54, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

Starting a new "depression and culture" page sounds like a good idea. About only secondary sources, I thought for psychology related articles careful use of some peer-reviewed research was appropriate (following this advice). Perhaps the emphasis on the research will be easier to see in a new page. Greta Munger (talk) 13:36, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

It seems like you have a lot of good sources, and a lot of variety in terms of what you want to talk about. Since you do seem to have such a variety of research I agree with the above comment that it might be a good idea to start a new "depression and culture" page. That would allow you to delve into more detail than you will be able to in a subsection of this article. One thing I am confused about after reading your proposal is the title of your sub-section on depression in Asian cultures. Is this section going to refer to Asian cultures in general, or specifically China? It looks like, based on your sources, it would be best to broaden it to Asian cultures in general. I also think that if you started a new article, you might want to include a section specifically on non-western treatments for depression, or treatments that have been effective outside of Western culture. It seems like you already have some research on that topic in the Arab culture and Asian culture section. I don't know if there is any information on this in the books you referenced, but a section on depression in immigrant populations might be interesting. Overall, I think your proposed edits look great! Good job! Katie Lloyd (talk) 18:02, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

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General Discussion

The first paragraph doesn't even mention the word depression. Just seems like a weak opening for the article. A. Scholar (Nabu) (talk) 18:12, 10 December 2016 (UTC)