Depression In Adolescence Week Four Reading
Reading Information
Depression In Adolescence Week Four Reading
Week: 4
Read: 13/08/21
Book: Psychopathology: research, assessment and treatment in clinical psychology
Pages:201-204
Reference: Davey, G. C. (2021). Psychopathology: Research, Assessment and Treatment in Clinical Psychology (BPS Textbooks in Psychology) by Graham C.
Davey (2014–08-22) [E-book]. John Wiley & Sons.
Depression Prevalence
● Lifetime prevalence rates for major depression 5.2%-17.1% (American community)
● Lifetime risk (20% men, 30% women)
Difficulties diagnosing 1. Prevalence rates appear to differ
significantly across different cultures
2. The incidence of the diagnosis of 3. Different studies have tended to use
depression has increased steadily different diagnostic tools when
over the past 90 years assessing prevalence
● Number of reasons why there are large international variations in lifetime prevalence
rates:
1. Stigmatising of psychopathology in 2. Higher levels of somatisation (the
many non-Western societies (e.g, expression of psychological distress in
Taiwan), indicating that many physical terms) in non-Western
individuals will be unwilling to report countries
symptoms of major depression
3. Unlike many other conditions, 4. Lifetime prevalence rates will always
depression cannot be observed or be affected by recall problems, and
measured directly. Element of recall failure with age appears to
subjectivity in way symptoms are account for the fact that lifetime
measured/recorded prevalence rates decrease with
increasing age cohorts
Reading Information
Depression In Adolescence Week Four Reading
Week: 4
Read: 13/08/21
Book: Psychopathology: research, assessment and treatment in clinical psychology
Pages:201-204
Reference: Davey, G. C. (2021). Psychopathology: Research, Assessment and Treatment in Clinical Psychology (BPS Textbooks in Psychology) by Graham C.
Davey (2014–08-22) [E-book]. John Wiley & Sons.
Depression Prevalence
● Lifetime prevalence rates for major depression 5.2%-17.1% (American community)
● Lifetime risk (20% men, 30% women)
Difficulties diagnosing 1. Prevalence rates appear to differ
significantly across different cultures
2. The incidence of the diagnosis of 3. Different studies have tended to use
depression has increased steadily different diagnostic tools when
over the past 90 years assessing prevalence
● Number of reasons why there are large international variations in lifetime prevalence
rates:
1. Stigmatising of psychopathology in 2. Higher levels of somatisation (the
many non-Western societies (e.g, expression of psychological distress in
Taiwan), indicating that many physical terms) in non-Western
individuals will be unwilling to report countries
symptoms of major depression
3. Unlike many other conditions, 4. Lifetime prevalence rates will always
depression cannot be observed or be affected by recall problems, and
measured directly. Element of recall failure with age appears to
subjectivity in way symptoms are account for the fact that lifetime
measured/recorded prevalence rates decrease with
increasing age cohorts
