Depression in Young Women
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help you learn more about depression, particularly in young women. With numerous resources available on this
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Depression is a very serious
health issue. Often depression first
appears in women between the ages of 25 and 44. These young women are afflicted with such symptoms as (National
Mental Health Association) chronic sad or anxious moods, trouble sleeping,
changes in appetite, restlessness, irritability and loss of interest in
activities once enjoyed, and many more.
One in three women will become clinically depressed during their
lifetime, at twice the rate of men.
This condition is not one that women must learn to live with; today
there are many treatment and support options available.
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Carlson,
Karen J., Stephanie Eisenstat, & Terra Ziporyn. (1996). "Depression." The Harvard
Guide to Women’s Health (pp. 196-199). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
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Approach to Mood Disorders. Los Angeles : Lowell House.
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Clinical Depression in
Women
National Mental Health Association
http://www.nmha.org/ccd/support/women.cfm
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Rosalyn. (1998) Helping
Someone With Mental Illness: A Compassionate Guide for Family, Friends and
Caregivers.
New York: Times Books.
De
Rosis, Helen & Victoria Pellegrino. (1976). The Book of Hope: How Women Can
Overcome Depression. New York: Macmillan.
Jack,
Dana Crowley.(1991). Silencing the Self : Women and Depression. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press.
Rao, UMA, Shannon Daley, Constance Hammen. (July 1999). Continuity of
Depression During the Transition to Adulthood: a 5-Year Longitudinal Study of
Young Women. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry, v38, 908(8).
Colino, Stacey. (1999, December). The Serious Illness Women--and Their
Doctors--Ignore. (Depression). Redbook, v194, 32.
Depression, What Every Woman Should Know
National
Institute of Mental Health
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/depwomenknows.cfm
Depression
MayoClinic.com:
Diseases and Conditions A-Z
http://www.mayohealth.org/home?id=DS00175
Related
Works
Postpartum
Depression
Dalton,
Katharina. (1989). Depression After Childbirth: How to Recognize and Treat
Postnatal Illness.
New York: Oxford University Press.
Jones,
Carl. (1986). After
the Baby is Born.
New York: Dodd, Mead.
Postpartum Coping – The Blues and Depression
MayoClinic.com:
Labor and Delivery
http://www.mayohealth.org/home?id=HQ01243
Eating Disorders
Silverstein, Brett. (1995). The Cost of Competence: Why Inequality Causes
Depression, Eating Disorders, and Illness in Women. New
York: Oxford University Press.
(1994).
In Patricia Fallon, Melanie A. Katzman, & Susan C. Wooley (Eds.), Feminist Perspectives on Eating
Disorders.
New York: Guilford Press.
Eating Disorders
National
Institute of Mental Health
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/eatingdisorder.cfm
Depressives
Anonymous: Recovery from Depression (DARFD)
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Douglas Ave.
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689-2600
Depression
and Related Affective Disorders Association (DRADA)
Johns
Hopkins Hospital Meyer 3-181
600
N. Wolfe St.
Baltimore,
MD 21287-7381
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
2107
Wilson Boulevard, Suite 300
Arlington,
VA 22201-3042
(703)
524-7600; 800-950-NAMI
National
Depressive and Maniac Depressive Association (NDMDA)
730
N. Franklin Ste. 501
Chicago,
IL 60610-3526
(312)
642-0049
National
Foundation for Depressive Illness (NAFDI)
PO
Box 2257
New
York, NY 10116
(212)
268-4260
National Institute of Mental Health
NIMH
Public Inquiries
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Executive Boulevard, Rm. 8184, MSC 9663
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National Mental Health Association
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684-7722; 800-969-6642
Depression
and Anxiety.
Publication:
New York, NY: Wiley-Liss,
Frequency:
Eight no. a year
ISSN:
1091-4269; LC: RC531; Dewey: 616.85/223/005
Depression
and Stress.
Publication:
Madison, CT : International Universities
Frequency:
Semiannual
ISSN:
1091-6326; Dewey: 616
Depression.
Publication:
New York, NY : Wiley-Liss,
Frequency:
Bimonthly
ISSN:
1062-6417; Dewey: 362
Women
& Therapy.
Publication:
New York, NY : The Haworth Press,
Frequency:
Quarterly
ISSN:
0270-3149; LC: RC451.4.W6; Dewey: 616.89/088042;
Psychology
of Women Quarterly.
Publication:
Cambridge, England
Frequency:
Quarterly
ISSN: 0361-6843; LC: HQ1206;
Dewey: 155.6/33/05;
Psychology Today
Publication:
England: Sussex Publishers Inc.
Frequency:
Bimonthly
ISSN:
0033-3107; LC: BF1; Dewey: 150
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Depression
(March 28 2001). Depression. Medlineplus [Online],
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diagnosis and coping, with a special section for women.
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Dimeo F, Bauer M, Varahram I, Proest G, Halter U. (April
2001). Benefits from aerobic exercise in patients with major depression: a
pilot study. BRJ Sports Med [Online serial], 114-117. Available: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11273973&dopt=Abstract
BACKGROUND: Several reports indicate that physical
activity can reduce the severity of symptoms in depressed patients. Some data
suggest that even a single exercise bout may result in a substantial mood
improvement. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the short-term effects of a training
program on patients with moderate to severe major depression. METHODS: Twelve
patients (mean (SD) age 49 (10) years; five men, seven women) with major
depressive episode according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the
American Society of Psychiatry (DSM IV) criteria participated. The mean (SD) duration
of the depressive episode was 35 (21) weeks (range 12-96). Training consisted
of walking on a treadmill following an interval-training pattern and was
carried out for 30 minutes a day for 10 days. RESULTS: At the end of the training program, there was
a clinically relevant and statistically significant reduction in depression
scores. CONCLUSIONS: Aerobic exercise can produce substantial improvement in
mood in patients with major depressive disorders in a short time.
Hammen C, Henry R, Daley SE. (Oct. 2000). Depression and
sensitization to stressors among young women as a function of childhood
adversity. J Consult Clin Psychol [On-line serial], 782-787. Available: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11068964&dopt=Abstract
The authors tested a stress-sensitization version of a
diathesis-stress approach to depression. In a 2-year longitudinal follow-up
design, exposure to stressful life events was examined in young women in the
transition to adulthood. The authors hypothesized that those who had
experienced one or more significant childhood adversities would have a lower
threshold for developing a depressive reaction to stressors. Results indicated
that women with exposure to one or more childhood adversities--such as family
violence, parent psychopathology or alcoholism, and others--were more likely to
become depressed following less total stress than women without such adversity.
The results could not be accounted for by chronic stress or prior depression.
Both biological and psychological sensitization mechanisms may be speculated to
play a role, but the actual mechanisms of stress sensitization remain to be
explored.
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Mackinger, Herbert F., Martin Pachinger, Reinhold
Fartacek. (May 2000). Autobiographical memories in women remitted from major
depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology [Online serial], 331-334. Available:
http://fc1n05e.fcla.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/fclwlv3/wlv3/DBPY/DI651193805/DGref/SSKIPk%3ddepression+AND+young+women/RO1/RP33/CM34/P112
Several studies show that depressed people tend to over
generalize when asked to recall
autobiographical memories (AM); in particular, they respond with categorical
descriptions. The authors sought to find out whether this tendency also occurs
after remission from depression. Two groups of women who were not depressed at
the time of the study were compared; only 1 group had a history of major
depression. With an AM test, women in remission from major depression retrieved
significantly more categorical descriptions when responding to negative cue
words than women without a major depression in their biography. These findings
support the assumption that AM is a correlate and a consequence of depression.
(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2000 APA, all rights reserved)
Haemmerle, Christina Lynn. (May 2000). Depression in
women: A test of the self-in-relation and attachment vulnerability models. Dissertation
Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences & Engineering Univ [Online
serial], 5225. Available: http://fc1n05e.fcla.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/fclwlv3/wlv3/DBPY/DI651458155/DGref/SSKIPk%3dyoung+women+depression/RO26/RP33/CM34/P134
Women are twice as likely to experience unipolar
depression as compared to men (Chino & Funabiki, 1984; O'Neil et al., 1985;
Weissman & Klerman, 1977). This study investigated two models that might
explain the development of depressive symptoms in women. The Self-in-Relation
model (SIR; Kaplan, 1986, 1991) stresses the importance of relationships to
women's psychological health, whereas the Attachment-Vulnerability model (AV;
Blatt, 1974; Blatt & Zuroff, 1992) focuses on the impact attachment
relationships have on personality organization vulnerability. It was
hypothesized that an integration of these two models would provide a more
complete explanation for the presence of depressive symptoms in women, than
would either of the two individual models… Results showed direct, significant
negative associations for: (a) mother-child/father-child relationships and
personality vulnerability; (b) personality vulnerability and self-in-relation;
and (c) self-in-relation and vulnerability to depression. Findings suggest that
women who endorse a personality organization vulnerability are likely to view
themselves as failing short of their ideal self (Blatt et al., 1976) and have
difficulties in maintaining and building mutually empathic relationships
(Kaplan, 1986; Surrey, 1991).
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Rao, Uma, Hammen, Constance Daley, Shannon E. (July 1999).
Continuity of depression during the transition to adulthood: a 5-year
longitudinal study of young women. Journal of the American Academy of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry [Online serial], 908-15. Available: http://firstsearch.altip.oclc.org/WebZ/FSFETCH?fetchtype=fullrecord:sessionid=sp03sw03-43376-ckyjfl0v-hta2ck:entitypagenum=3:0:recno=7:resultset=1:format=FI:next=html/record.html:bad=error/badfetch.html::entitytoprecno=7:entitycurrecno=7:numrecs=1
A study was conducted to characterize the clinical course
and psychosocial correlates of unipolar depression in late adolescent women and
to explore the continuity in affective disturbance from adolescence to early
adulthood during the post-high school transition. The 155 women aged 17 or 18
years taking part in the study were drawn from three local public high schools
and were followed at yearly intervals for five years for clinical and
psychosocial outcomes. The findings imply that there was a substantial continuity
in affective disturbances from adolescence to adulthood. Furthermore, it was
found that the risk for both new onset of depression and recurrence was
remarkably high during late adolescence and that the risk continues throughout
early adult years, accompanied by notable interpersonal dysfunction.
Daley, Shannon E.
Constance Hammen, Uma Rao. (Aug 2000). Predictors of first onset and
recurrence of major depression in young women during the 5 years following high
school graduation. Journal of Abnormal Psychology [Online serial], 525-33.
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Although
most depressive episodes in adulthood are recurrences of the disorder, lifetime
history of major depression (MD) is often neglected in predictive models. On
the basis of research and theory suggesting differential prediction of MD
across the courses of the disorder, the authors explored whether factors that
predict a first MD onset would not predict MD recurrence. Predictors of MD were
examined longitudinally in a sample of 128 young women followed for 5 years.
Controlling for lifetime MD history, 5-year MD was predicted by the presence
before study entry of 3 variables: having witnessed family violence before age
16, having a parent with a psychiatric disorder, and having a non-mood Axis I
disorder During the follow-up period, chronic and episodic stress predicted MD.
Prior lifetime MD interacted with both chronic stress and parental
psychopathology to predict MD, such that first onsets, but not recurrences,
were predicted by these risk variables. Reprinted by permission of the
publisher.
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