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Depression in Young Women, 2007.
This paper discusses the causes and consequences of depression in young women.
1,111 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 15 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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The paper relates that women are highly prone to depression, more so than men. The paper discusses the causes of depression and the serious consequences of depression in youth. The paper notes the importance of early intervention and treatment.
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"Depression is a serious problem among young women due to a variety of factors including societal expectations, childhood abuse, low self-esteem etc. Young women are at a greater risk of developing depressive symptoms compared to boys, though prior to puberty, boys exhibit a slightly higher risk. However from the age of 11 to 13, a dramatic change is noticed as young girls become more vulnerable to depression than boys in the same age group. It is a well-documented fact, which remains consistent across cultures. (Kessler et al. 1993) Depression is connected with serious personal and economic damage. Even though it was once assumed that higher rate of depression in young women compared to young men could be attributed to women's greater tendency to seek help and report such symptoms, it has now been rejected."
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Suicide and Depression in Young People, 2003.
A comparison of the film ,"Ordinary People", and selections from the book, "Abnormal Psychology in Context".
1,030 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 36.95
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This paper is a comparison of the suicidal behaviors exhibited by troubled teenager Conrad Jarrett in the film, "Ordinary People", with two people, Elizabeth Wurtzel and Kelly O'Connor, real people who have experienced depression and contemplated suicide. Themes in this paper include depression's effects on everyday functioning, loss of emotional control, and the motives behind attempted suicide, among others.
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"The film ?Ordinary People?, which was directed by Robert Redford, showcases depression as seen through the eyes of an adolescent. Behind the idyllic upper middle class lifestyle of the Jarrett family lies a history of tragedy and turmoil. Ever since the eldest son, Buck, died in a boating accident, the family has been falling apart. The mother has been suffering from a lack of empathy, the father has been struggling to keep his family together in these times of heartache, and at the center of it all is his younger brother Conrad. Guilt-ridden over having survived the accident, he spirals into a state of depression that ultimately leads to a suicide attempt. Now, recently discharged from a four month stay at a mental facility, he seeks the guidance of a therapist, Dr. Berger; the sessions and exchanges with the doctor are the focal point of the movie."
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Drug and Alcohol Use in Young Women, 2005.
A discussion about the growing range and prevalence of drug and alcohol abuse among young women in Australia.
2,526 words (approx. 10.1 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 76.95
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This paper describes strategies for coping with the underlying health risk factors that have been deemed related to the high drug and alcohol abuse rates among the young women of Australia. The paper uses these strategies as a basis for the methods suggested for decreasing the risky behaviors of these women. Finally, the paper also considers the role that general practitioners should have in identifying and preventing these behaviors.
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Identifying the Appropriate Media for Communicating with the Target Population
Strategies for Coping with the Depression-Based Risky Behaviours
Conclusion
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"According to Australia?s Teen Challenge Web site, ?Alcohol is the most widely used recreational drug in Australia.? Unfortunately, because it can be used in socially acceptable ways, it is not often recognized as a drug, especially by those abusing it. So it is not surprising that a 1998 survey commissioned by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care found that the use of alcohol was of special concern in teenagers and young people up to the age of 25. The young adults described alcohol as a catalyst for social gatherings, although overall, fewer young adults were drinking (down from 77 percent in 1988 to 71 percent in 1998) but that those who were drinking were drinking more."
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Women and Depression: Worldwide Epidemic, 2004.
An examination of the epidemiology of women's depression, with a contention that the depression women experience is caused by their devalued place within a patriarchal society.
3,204 words (approx. 12.8 pages), 31 sources, MLA, $ 92.95
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This paper outlines the historic association between women and depression and highlights society's proclivity to believe women are more susceptible to mental illness due to their hormones. It argues, however, that women are more likely than men to experience depression and mental illness due to their social and political stance within society; that is, women are more likely to be depressed because, in a patriarchal society, they have "more to be depressed about". It covers physical and sexual violence, gendered economics, family 'responsibilities' of women, and the gendered implications of female embodiment.
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Women and Mental Illness: From Hysteria to Depression
The View from the Bottom Rung of the Gender Hierarchy
Physical and Sexual Violence
Cultural Implications of Female Embodiment on Economic (In)Dependence
Family Caring Responsibilities
Damned if They Do and Damned if They Don?t: the Feminine Gender Role
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"The connection between women and mental illness is a long and, in many ways, inseparable one. Historically, in our cultural myths, it is women who are ?mad? or drive men to ?madness? ? spinsters, crones, and witches are all depicted as slightly mad, while the Furies and the oceanic Sirens are supposed harbingers of madness. Let us not forget either that it was the first woman, Eve, who brought both literal and symbolic madness, in the form of disharmony and evil, to ?man?kind. The extensive medical history between women and mental illness begins in recorded history, not surprisingly, as intricately bound up with that which defines them as ?other? ? their biology. Four thousand years ago the Egyptian ?Kahun Papyrus? associated female distress with the ?dislocation... of the uterus.? Fifteen hundred years later, Hippocrates described the female disease ?hysteron? caused by an organic imbalance of the womb, and thus the female ?hysteric? was born. By the seventeenth century C.E., dominant medical discourse had relocated the site of women?s mental illness from the womb to the brain, and hysteria became a disease of the mind."
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Depression in Women, 2004.
Examines the factors that influence the development of and effects of depression in women.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 71.95
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This paper discusses the high incidence of depression in women. More specifically, the paper looks at the factors that influence the development of and effects of depression in women from adolescence to adulthood and examines existing psychological research about the underlying factors of depression.
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Woman and Depression, 2003.
Discusses factors involved in women suffering more from depression than men.
3,600 words (approx. 14.4 pages), 4 sources, $ 127.95
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Examines gender differences, the prevalence of somatic depression in women, childhood adversity and sexual abuse and their association with depression, postpartum depression, and ethnicity.
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"This research paper will critically review four articles from the literature to answer the following research question: What factors are associated with women suffering more from depression than men...".
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Depression in Postmenopausal Women, 2002.
A review of medical articles on the topic of depression in post-menopausal women.
2,934 words (approx. 11.7 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 86.95
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A study into the causes and symptoms of post-menopausal depression in women. The writer chose the subject because although it is almost an ?accepted fact? that post-menopausal women will suffer from depression, there seems to be little evidence to support the fact. The paper is broken up into a list of reviews of articles on the subject:
Nicol-Smith's "Causality, Menopause and Depression: A Critical Review of the Literature" Elias's "Mind and Menopause", McKeon's "Cruel Myths and Clinical Facts About Menopause", Goldman's "Menopause Alone Won?t Induce New-onset Depression", Hunter's "Depression and the Menopause"
King's "The Meno-pause That Refreshes", Thomas' "Life Stressors, Not Hormonal Changes" and "Menopause ?Emotions? More Precisely Defined"
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"Many changes occur in a women at menopause, both physical and emotional, and she has reached a stage in her life when her familial and social roles have also changed. Changes in hormone levels at menopause affect women physically and mentally, and women have to adapt to a new role in society. No longer able to produce children, they must divert their efforts to other rewarding issues to maintain their sense of self-worth. For years, women have been lead to expect certain conditions to affect them at menopause, and it is only now that doctors are starting to look more critically at menopause to find out which of these conditions are truly due to the physical changes taking place at menopause and which are due to sociological changes taking place at the same time."
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Women in the Great Depression, 2004.
This paper discusses the role played by women during the Great Depression.
1,808 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 7 sources, $ 63.95
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In this article, the writer discusses that history often neglects or misrepresents the role played by women during the Great Depression. An examination of this period in this paper, reveals that this is a grievous error. The writer maintains that in fact, women were indispensable as heads of families, as laborers, and even as professionals during this time.
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"The Great Depression was the single worst economic crisis ever experienced by the United States. In President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's own words " fully one-third of the nation's citizens were ill-housed ill-clad and ill-nourished". Roosevelt's was a presidency sired in crisis and sustained in war and the very fabric of American society could not but be fundamentally altered, as these extraordinary years progressed. One such fundamental change pertained to the American family. The Great Depression would forever reform the ways in which women in America were perceived, utilized ... "
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The Great Depression and Women's Work, 1995.
Examines the effects of economic collapse on conditions, opportunities and roles for married and unmarried women in the workplace, home and society in the 1930s.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 25 sources, $ 95.95
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"The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of the Great Depression on the U.S. economy, with special emphasis on women in the workplace. The plan of the research will be to set forth the context of change for the structure of the American work force that came about as a result of the Great Depression, and then to discuss levels of employment and different types of jobs available to married and single women.
From the 1929 crash of the stock market to the onset of World War II, there was a persistence of what today would be (and indeed is) called a deep recession, as well as persistence of highly traditional cultural values informing Americans' experience of economic and cultural phenomena alike. In the years after World War I, American women readily entered the workplace in significant numbers. A number of economic and ..."
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Depression, 2002.
Examines the causes of depression in young and old women.
2,125 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 66.95
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Recent research reveals that about one percent of the general population suffers from manic-depression and five percent suffers from major depression during their lives. However, the incidence for depression in women is twice as high or more; as many as one in five American women has a history of depression during her lifetime.
This paper examines the causes and effects of depression in both young and older women. It examines existing medical research for both groups, identifies major differences in depression for young and older women and presents a conclusive analysis of observations.
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"Additional studies reveal that from early adolescence onward, there is a steady increase in the number of women who experience symptoms of depression. Women's risk for depression during their reproductive years also presents a significant social problem, as the risk of depression in children is greater when they have depressed mothers. In addition, depression has been identified as the fourth most common cause of disability worldwide and has surpassed accidents as a major cause of lost work time."
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Depression and Anti-Depressants, 2006.
An analysis of the condition of depression and its treatments.
1,879 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 60.95
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This paper discusses the condition of depression and the possible causes of its development. It analyzes techniques used for treating depression, such as electroconvulsive therapy, as well as drugs prescribed for depression, such as mirtazapine, vanlafaxine and duloxetine.
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" Electroconvulsive therapy applies shock to cause a seizure (FamilyDoc.org, 2005). The seizure releases many chemicals in the brain, called neurotransmitters, which deliver information or messages from one brain cell to another. This makes the brain cells work better and the person's mood will improve when brain cells and chemical messengers work better. In applying the therapy, the doctor first conducts a physical examination of the patient. If he or she is fit, an anesthesiologist applies anesthesia to put the patient in a sleep-like state. The anesthesiologist examines the heart and lungs of the patient or decides if some blood tests or an electrocardiogram will be needed before undertaking the first ECT treatment (FamilyDoc)."
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Depression in Middle-aged Women, 1981.
This paper discusses depression among women in the middle years: Definition, symptoms, effects, causes, sex and family aspects, self-esteem and self-expression, treatment with drugs and therapy; re-education and desensitization.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 8 sources, $ 63.95
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"This research describes depression among women in the middle years.
Depression is an illness like kidney or heart disease. It is a mental state in which grief or anxiety or ?agonized feelings? predominate. In Hippocrates time, the fourth century B.C., it was known as melancholia, literally ?depression,? a despondent condition thought to be one of the four temperaments of man. Today, we view depression as a product of mental, physical and social forces, which adversely change a person?s behavior, feeling state and thoughts.
Physically, depression may include such symptoms as nausea, dizziness, diarrhea, headaches, stomachaches, or abnormal neural functions. In extremity, it can result in a nervous breakdown or psychotic break. Under most conditions, it is experienced as ... "
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A Guide to Depressive and Manic Depressive Illness, 2001.
Introductory explanations under various headings on how to recognize the disorder, causes and how to get better, etc.
2,480 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 37 sources, $ 75.95
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This paper discusses major depressive disorder and manic depression, which encompass symptoms of depression and mania or hypomania, a less severe form of mania than the acute mania that can occur with bipolar disorder. The paper is organized under the following headings: What is bipolar disorder? What are some of the signs of bipolar disorder? Suicide. What Is the Course of Bipolar Disorder? Can Children and Adolescents Have Bipolar Disorder? What Causes Bipolar Disorder? How is bipolar disorder treated? What can I do to help myself get better? Where can I get more information about bipolar disorder?
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"More than 2 million American adults,or about 1 percent of the population age 18 and older in any given year have bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder typically develops in late adolescence or early adulthood. However, some people have their first symptoms during childhood, and some develop them late in life. It is often not recognized as an illness, and people may suffer for years before it is properly diagnosed and treated. Like diabetes or heart disease, bipolar disorder is a long-term illness that must be carefully managed throughout a person's life."
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Clinical Adolescent Depression, 2004.
An exploration of the symptoms, prevalence rate, and treatment plans associated with clinical depression in young people.
2,582 words (approx. 10.3 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 78.95
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This paper examines how depression, a condition consisting of symptoms, such as extreme sadness for a prolonged duration of time, loss of interest in activities once enjoyed, marked increase or decrease of appetite, etc., is increasing rapidly among children and adolescents in the United States today. It looks at how several factors, such as maternal depression and interpersonal relationships, are contributing to this trend. It examines depression in the child and adolescent populations, the warning signs, its implications, and proposed therapeutic treatments.
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"Currently in the U.S., nearly 2 million children and adolescents are diagnosed with some form of depression, with twice as many adolescence girls as boys, being diagnosed with depression. More than half of depressed adolescents has a recurrence within seven years. In some cases, the biological tendency toward depression is hereditary. In several other cases, environmental stressors are the basis of depression. Clinical depression may resemble these emotional dips, but it is much more pervasive, long lasting, and life threatening. A common fallacy is that childhood is a blithe, uncomplicated time in one?s life. Today?s family system may be a basis of depression."
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Major Depressive Disorder, 2005.
A case study of a young woman with major depressive disorder.
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 31.95
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This paper presents a case study of a female adolescent with Major Depressive Disorder with Mood Congruent Psychoses. The paper diagnoses the problem according to DSM-IV criteria. Then the paper describes cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) as being the most likely therapy to be effective in this case.
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"Major Depressive Disorder is a prevalent familial and recurrent condition and often continues into adulthood in an episodic manner. In the case history considered here, it is noted that the patient's mother has had a..."
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