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In the context of health and well-being, evaluate biological treatments of one mental disorder.
Brown and Harris investigated the social factors that make depression more likely in women. They interviewed a large sample of women in a district of London about recent stressful life events and their social circumstances, and assessed who had become depressed. Depression was much more common in women who had experienced a severe life event or major difficulty. Certain 'vulnerability factors' increased the risk that such events would lead to depression: lacking a close confiding relationship, having several young children at home, not working outside the home, and the loss of one's own mother in childhood. The researchers concluded that depression in women arises from an interaction between provoking life events and social vulnerability factors.
References: Brown, G. W. and Harris, T., 1978. Social Origins of Depression: A Study of Psychiatric Disorder in Women. London: Tavistock. source adapted.
Discuss the following study with reference to two or more of the following concepts: bias, causality, measurement, and/or responsibility.
In the context of health and well-being, evaluate sociocultural explanations of one mental disorder.
In the context of health and well-being, evaluate explanations of addiction.
One claim in the psychology of health and well-being is that mental disorders are culturally relative. Discuss this claim with reference to one or more relevant studies.