Different cultural groups show distinctive rates and experiences of the disorder, reflecting their different cultural and socio-economic context. Gotlib & Hammen, (2002) propose a noticeable and explicit pattern that seems to continuously emerge is that depression appears to occur much more in western cultures (US, Canada, UK, Holland) than in Asian (Japan, Taiwan, China) cultures. Such differences in rates of depression have been attributed to a number of factors such as differences in the amount
findings about paternal perinatal depression. The study conducted by Goodman in 2004, has shown that the postpartum depression’s prevalence among fathers varied from 1.2% to 25% in the population sample. Furthermore, these percentages rose to achieve 24 to 50 per cent when the paternal postpartum depression was associated with maternal postpartum depression. The literature review and studies asserted the detrimental consequences of paternal perinatal depression on child wellbeing and development
model believes that all aspects of health are reliant upon three factors: biological factors, psychological factors, and sociocultural factors; and cannot be the symptom of one factor solely. It is thought that that all three groups of factors play an equally important role in both maintaining and deteriorating health (Varnekar, 2014). Occasionally, if health deteriorates; whether it is physiologically, mentally, or otherwise; a cultural influences take hold, an individual may turn to suicide as a means
disorders and mostly depression. Females is most susceptible to panic disorders than the male and it is almost double or more than that. The symptoms of panic a disorder mainly includes a disconnected period of severe fear or discomfort, simultaneously the other symptoms are as follows also seen during the attacks and peak within 10 minutes: Palpitation, Tachycardia, Sweating, Tremors, difficulty in breathing, Chest pain ,Nausea or abdominal distress, dizziness, depression, fear of going crazy and
Treating Childhood Depression from a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Approach Depression in Children: Cognitive Behavioral Approach Patricia Kilgore University of Phoenix Depression in Children and a Cognitive Behavioral Approach Depression in children stem from a variety of factors relating to health, history, life events, genetic vulnerabilities, family history, and biochemical imbalances. Every individual shows
various factors such as the era, region, cultural cognition, presents various forms and differences. Ethan Watters, the author of “The Mega-Marketing of Depression in Japan” who addresses a story of an American pharmaceutical company finds out that their product is not popular in Japan. The reason is the Japanese have a different conception of depression with the American. In order to open the Japanese market, the American company attempts to convince the Japanese to change their cultural perceptions
in such a sensitive area it differs from physical illness in the sense that there is no universal symptom for a certain mental illness such as depression, but there are hundreds of symptoms for a mental disorder throughout the world. These inconsistencies based on region can best be explained in Ethan Watters essay titled, The Mega Marketing of Depression in Japan. Watters’ discusses how a pharmaceutical company, GlaxoSmithKline, sponsored a seminar in order to discuss ways to market their antidepressant
encountered traumatic past experience such as war violence and torture and are at a high risk in developing depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and anxiety (Kleinman, 2004). In past studies, services for mental health were identified as a major need in the social work sphere. Factors such as limited access to quality healthcare, linguistic barriers, meager financial resources, cultural unfamiliarity and a lack of social support systems contribute to mental illness among refugees. Understanding
Pharmaceuticals benefit from the way society sees certain diseases. In “Mega-Marketing of Depression in Japan,” Ethan Watters presents the difference between depression in Japanese culture and depression in American culture. He explores how some of the big pharmaceutical companies try to bring their products for depression into the Japanese market, but to do that they have to change the way people see depression in Japan. Watters divided his essay into different categories which are: “The Culture of
artificially created and rooted in cultural tradition. In his essay “The Mega Marketing of depression in Japan”, Ethan Watters explores the relationship between cultural expectations and the experience of happiness via the marketing campaign undertaken by pharmaceutical behemoths which succeeded in radically altering the Japanese definition of depression to agree with the Western model. Through Watter’s study, a better understanding of how language and values can rewrite the cultural narrative of wellbeing can