Women and Depression: The Influence of Gender in Major Depressive Disorder
Women and Depression: The Influence of Gender in Major Depressive Disorder
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10.1007/978-0-387-78512-7_12
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2008-01-01
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Asuncion Lara, Maria
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作者：
Asuncion Lara, Maria
我意识到抑郁症给妇女带来的痛苦和负担，以及现有心理健康服务的局限性，主要是针对贫穷妇女的，以及在临床实践、研究和公共心理健康之间建立桥梁的必要性，促使我在这一领域进行研究。在墨西哥城的拉蒙德拉富恩特国家精神病学研究所（Ramon de la Fuente National Institute of Psychiatry），我对患有临床抑郁症的经济状况不佳的女性进行了研究，这让我意识到她们的日常困难和情绪困扰，以及她们对信息的需求，以应对她们的问题。为了开发满足这些女性需求的教育材料，我从各种来源收集了信息，包括我自己作为临床心理学家的经验。在同事的帮助下，我们把这些材料印成了一本漫画书。在焦点小组中试用这本书，我们意识到它与小组合作的潜力。我们现在正在墨西哥和美国通过对精神卫生工作者的培训课程传播这一干预措施。在美国伊娃·m·莫亚（Eva M. Moya）的带领下，他的同事们将这些材料翻译成英文，并对干预措施进行了修改，以供孕妇和新妈妈使用。在这个新项目中，我们与来自华盛顿特区乔治华盛顿大学的Huynh-Nhu Le博士合作。
Awareness of the suffering and burden that depression imposed on women and the limitations in available mental health services, mainly for poor women, as well as the need to build bridges between clinical practice, research, and public mental health led me to research in this area. Undertaking research with economically disadvantaged women with clinical depression at the Ramon de la Fuente National Institute of Psychiatry, in Mexico City, sensitized me to their everyday difficulties and emotional distress, and their need for information to cope with their problems. With the goal of developing educational material that would meet the need of these women, I gathered information from various sources including my own experience as a clinical psychologist. With the help of colleagues, we printed this material as a comic book. Piloting this book with focus groups, we realized the potential for it working with groups. We are now disseminating this intervention through training courses for mental health workers in Mexico and the United States. Colleagues, led by Eva M. Moya in the United States, have translated the materials into English and adapted the intervention for use with pregnant women and new mothers. In this new venture we have worked with Dr. Huynh-Nhu Le from George Washington University in Washington, DC.