DEEP DEPRESSION AND CULTURE IN ANGLOPHONE SOCIETIES

Deep Depression and Culture in Anglophone Societies

Final Research Paper Project (Outline and Paper): Students will complete a culture and mental health research project for the course. This project will involve choosing a mental health condition that has a culturally specific manifestation (idiom of distress or culture-bound syndrome) or a mental health condition (broadly defined) that develops from or is shaped by, a social/cultural/behavioral process. Students will complete a detailed outline of their paper and complete a final paper on their chosen topic. The outline and paper will reflect a detailed review of the literature focused on the mental health problem, a review of culturally-specific aspects of the problem, and potential (culturally appropriate) methods of addressing the problem. Example titles of projects are ‘Globalization and farmer suicides among rural Kenyan men, ‘The legacy of colonialism on substance abuse in the Caribbean’, or ‘Suicide among Information Technology workers in Bangalore, India’.

The final paper will be due June 1st at 11:59pm online via Canvas. For undergraduates, the paper will be 10 pages in length, double-spaced with 1-inch margins, using 11 or 12 point font. Please use JAMA style for this paper. The final paper is worth 25% of your overall grade. A grading rubric will be made available on the course website.

This is based on the outline you wrote for me. But it should focus more on cultural influence.

You can check the file I uploaded

And here is the comment from my TA

Some comments: – make sure to cite your tables/ graphs. Also don’t include them if you’re not going to specifically mention them in the paper. – Define ‘anglophone societies’ in the beginning of your paper (just one sentence would be fine). Maybe give an example. – It’s a little bit unclear as to whether you’re saying that deep depression is a ‘real diagnosis’ or not. – is it defined as a culture-bound syndrome in the dsm or icd? Or is this your personal hypothesis? – talk about limitations of treatments, and further directions. Good work! It seems like you really did your research. However, I would talk a lot more about the disorder on a cultural level – what about anglophone societies make it a culturally-bound syndrome only there? overall it’s good, but a bit confusing to follow. Really focus on your flow and setting up your topics as you go along. Be very very clear about each section and introduce them. let me know if you have any specific questions or if there’s anything I can help with
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  • Patient Statistics
  • Journal of the American Medical Association, states that lifetime occurrence of deep depression in America is about 30% for women while for men is15%. The high prevalence in women than men would be attributed to the emotional vulnerability.
  • A vast number of people who do not look for a recurring cure for the depression.2 this are as a result of lack of both validity and utility. The utility of  diagnosis as a proper guide for effective treatment is highly debatable
  • At the same time, men and women have a lifetime occurrence, but median onset age for deep depression is at age 30, this is as per the report of the U.S. This is as per the Census Bureau Population which had its estimates by demographic aspects in 2005.
  • By having this in mind, it is significant to note down that female are excessively affected by deep depression than male.
  • The statistics are culturally specific and the evaluation of comparable data is problematic since it’s not a universal illness…

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