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In accordance with Mojtabai, Olfson and Han (2016), depression is one of mental illness that
occur the most among adults and a high amount of heath care costs are linked with adult
population. It has been projected that depression will be one of leading mental illness among
adults by year 2020. The author projected the prevalence of depression among patients aged
above 60 years may be high as 45% in community healthcare centers while adults below 60
years may be 8 % - 18% in the community health care settings. The depressive states and its
associated prognosis appear to be poor. There has been a meta analysis performed that resulted at
two years and estimated that there were 35% patients who were depressed while 27% patients
died after suffering from depressive states. Another research studies in relation to this subject
indicated that depression among adults might or might not have depressive disorder to symptoms
but they definitely have poorer functioning. This might get worse with the passage of time and
come up with chronic medical conditions like lung diseases or heart attacks, diabetes,
hypertension and arthritis. Additionally, poor functioning not only disturbs the social life of
patients but there is an increased tendency of poor health and high utilization of healthcare costs
Depression among adult causes poor self rated heath status and such presence is viewed
generally as a risk factor for people. There are recent research studies that highlighted people
who had high chronic diseases had a depression with a higher risk as compared to those with no
chronic diseases. Meanwhile, people with poor self rated heath issues had depression with higher
risk as compared to those people who had good self rated health. But, there are some research
studies which have been investigated and showed that health status is not the only factor that is
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linked directly linked with depression among adults (Hallgren, Kraepelien, Öjehagen et al,
2015).
significant issue among adults and with medical professionals who work for the healthcare of
depressed patients. With the rise in adult population, the tendency of expectation is rising,
showing a higher number of adults suffering from depression. Hence, it is vital and a definite
need to research the risks associated with depression among adults. Wang, Hua, Fu et al (2017)
stated that the factors that incline the risk of depression are health status, financial position,
social status and leisure life. Although, these factors are not restricted for depression but they are
accumulated as significant factors that might cause depressive syndrome or symptoms among
adults.
Hobbs, Joubert, Mahoney et al (2018) concluded that the practice and theory of positivism is
counted in one of the examples used in the community health care to treat depression among
adults. The healthcare professionals and nurses use positivism as non medication treatments for
promoting depressed adults for practicing positive health behavior like following health lifestyle
(for instance no smoking, healthy diet, limited alcohol consumption and avoiding other
unhealthy habits) and medication compliance. This type of treatment in community healthcare
clearly follows a behavioral model theory for depression that relies on maintenance of positive
interaction with depressed patients and limits negative communication that incline depressed
feelings. In accordance to this theory, if an individual who is unable to communicate with the
healthcare staff positively or in the healthcare environment or cannot give appropriate responses
then it is most probable that the tendency of depression might increase (Richardson and
Barkham, 2017).
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In the collaborative care model, Varma, Karadag, Oguzhanoglu et al (2017) and Wells and
Sherbourne (2017) agreed with each other with respect to the key elements of the model that
defined the problem really well. It created an understanding among the medical clinicians and
healthcare staff for taking active part in treating depressed patients. This model allowed in
accepting inputs from patient in making a preferred choice in the concerned treatment.
According to Hodgson, Atherton, Stanton et al (2016), one of the significant roles of healthcare
staff in depression recovery to maintain a good relation with the patient while recording and
monitoring the progress of the patient. The record history can be discussed with the GP (General
Physician) to decide whether the treatment should be continued or to put any variation in the
treatment. In some cases, the health care staff may provide direct medical care to the depressed
Chang-Quan, Xue-Mei, Bi-Rong et al, (2016) established a statement upon the collaborative care
model that collaborative care acts as a vital component while treating depression and recovering
patients from depression. In a community health care, the medical staff is responsible to show
minimum amount of assistance and enable patients for self recovery. By using this instinct, it
shows that it is good sign in nursing staff for drawing expertise in these cases. In simpler words,
curses can execute collaborative care model in a manner to ensure that the treatment of
depression is effective.
According to Chisholm, Sweeny, Sheehan et al, (2016), behavioral model theory of depression
states that behavior of people is a combination of action and reaction to their environment.
Moreover, the outcome of depressed patients’ outward expression is a result of external and
internal environment and not merely to their response to external impact. In this manner, the
healthcare staff may start collaborative care perspectives for making a situation so that patient
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can combine both their actions and reactions according to the environment for reducing their
depression.
The role of community healthcare staff is to establish a social support infrastructure as it is the
most critical need of adults suffering from depression as indicated by Chisholm, Sweeny,
Sheehan et al, (2016). The researcher emphasized upon the duties of nurses that they must be
forefront to bridge the gap among the factors that have caught people with depression. The
nurses need to make new relationships among adult patients in order to fulfill their social need by
educating and counseling the patient regarding their depression. Hence, these steps would assist
nurses in preventing depression and chronic diseases and also speed up the recovery of patient if
care is taken well through social support (Strawbridge, Arnone, Danese et al, 2015).
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Introduction
After analyzing the literature for this research study, it can be argued that the knowledge given
on depression is conceptualized. The statement will be further critically analyzed in the light of
scientific objectivism and clinical contexts by taking depression and its recovery by considering
community health care. This chapter will apply and formulate a critical perspective that will help
occurrence of depression and its recovery as a function of normative principles. It will further
Discussion
contradiction, there are many actions and terms where similar amount of knowledge discuss
depression as a fundamental historical phenomena that does not behold any meaning without a
normative and political framework which goes beyond the individual experience.
Depression portray not only as a state of depressed mood but it also refers to a syndrome that
comprises of variety of vegetative and somatic disturbances, psychomotor changes and mood
disorders in a clinical context. A thorough narrative analysis on depression explains that all of
the mentioned changes might be present within a mind of an individual but it shows not more
than a depressed or low mood and the occurrence is essential. Also depression emerges out as a
Modini, Christensen et al (2016), depression can occur as an extent to these present symptoms
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and with a combination that might be variable infinitely while other symptoms are common as it
With respect to the interpretivist view, Taylor (2016) and Johnson, Schonbrun, Peabody et al
(2015) have contributed a posthumanist and feminist oriented approach in their researches. A
detailed analysis shows that digital entanglements in regard of non-human and human objects
and elements influence the mental health of an individual. The feminist researcher have argued
on this point by stating that emotions, bodies, leisure lives and work of women are entangled in
global issues, patriarchal practices and bio political formations. These kinds of entanglements are
inclusive of different assortment of state and corporate agencies, individuals, human and non-
human elements.
Within the clinical psychology and psychiatric literature, it is observed that there are different
types of positions acquired on objects that bring depression within an individual’s mind. There
are some texts preserved from McCauley, Gudmundsen, Schloredt et al (2016), Jacobs, (2016)
and Fortinash and Worret (2014) who claimed, there is no current working definition offered
upon depression but there is a wide range of symptoms that have been explored. This approach
shows evidence in the researches of some biologists and psychologists due to their psychological
orientation. This is a clear indication that depression is a concept and has a self evident validity.
But, after performing a close inspection, the literature reveals that, there are many researchers
depression. For example, Corrigan, Druss and Perlick, (2014) and Bateman, Gunderson and
Mulder (2015) have presented texts who insisted that depression is caused primarily due to mood
disturbance and all linked phenomena are secondary objects to this affective depression state.
Meanwhile, there are other authors who focused primarily upon cognitive features of depression.
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In this respect, the most there is no current working definition offered upon depression but there
is a wide range of symptoms that have been explored. This approach shows evidence in the
researches of some biologists and psychologists due to their psychological orientation. This is a
clear indication that depression is a concept and has a self evident validity. But, after performing
a close inspection, the literature reveals that, there are many researchers who have assigned
were backed up by Deegan and his colleagues where they argued that a depressive behavior is
characterized by one’s negative self view, world and future (Deegan, Carpenter-Song, Drake et
al, 2017).
It can concluded from such observations that social constructionism is right to lay emphasis upon
the historical and cultural relativism of first individual’s emotional states but it is wrong during
problematizing every empirical claim regarding invariance in reality and causality of depression.
Medical naturalism is equally correct in this sense to put an emphasis on empirical investigation
of depression but it is wrong in natively confusing with historical and cultural specific
professional ideas with invariant reality templates (in relevance with depression). In other words,
the map is never place in the territory but if a certain case of depression is taken, the map
In accordance with Fortinash and Worret (2014), a theory of helplessness was proposedby
Abramson that focused on depression. The theory claimed that when depression occurs, there are
individual experiences in response to negative events that are uncontrollable. But, there are also
individual attributes to such causes that are internal to the self, global in their influence and
stable over time in number of areas in a person’s life. Subsequent research study by Gale,
Gilbert, Read et al (2014) has indicated that patients suffering from depression during their
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whole lives appeared to possess expected attributes for negative events but it was less clear that
attributes like internality were trait for vulnerability markers for depressed patients just as the
theory proposed.
In the light of such inconsistent findings, the theory by Abramson was revised further and it was
argued that the attributes represented as distal foundation of hopelessness and it was now
considered as the depressed mood’s proximal mediator. It seems clear that the model is valid for
a sub-type of depression which is why it was labeled as negative cognition of depression. For
avoiding the inevitable circularity of such position, Halter, (2017) made a comparison with
depressed patient with a pessimistic cognitive style against depressed patients suffering with
non- pessimistic cognitive style. The finding revealed that a former group of patients with
pessimistic cognitive style were probable to be diagnosed with personality disorder while other
group of patients was likely to be involved with abusive or difficult relations with their parents or
loved ones. This research clearly implies that attributes play a significant role in
psychopathology but it does not provide a certain complicated case for allocation of particular
causal role in sub-type of depression. It further complicates the matter when other researchers
like Johnsen and Friborg (2015) and Rosenbaum, Tiedemann, and Ward (2014) have revealed
that the self-styled `depressogenic’ attributes are observed in people who have been diagnosed to
In regard of recovery from depression, a proper execution of healthcare is needed for patients.
Adults suffering from depression in an early stage can overcome depression more easily as
compared to patients who have been suffering from depressive syndrome. This statement is
supported by Moos (2017) where he explained how different patients arrived at the rehabilitation
for treating depression. He researched on people who were suffering from depression and noted
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time duration since they were trapped in depressive moods. He found that people whose time
duration of depression was more than people with less time duration of depression appeared to
recover early in most of the cases. The recovery period from depression was dependent upon the
social and emotional need of the person that required intellectual skills of the healthcare workers
to make them relive and re-learn the real values of life. But, the important part while living in the
community was to make use of least professional support and learn from each other experiences.
A critical analysis on the literature tells that there is a significant impact or influence of
community care upon patients and the practices of rehabilitation upon the mental illness of a
person. It basically changes the perception of how one looks at things and perceive it internally
and externally. There are many patients who have cured and learnt to take world with a complete
new perspective and live a normal live. This is because community healthcare enables people to
shift their focus from mental illness model like depression toward a functional disability model.
There are other measures received as results from clinical conditions that portrays to be relevant
enough and matches with the mental illness stage of patients. This is specifically true in the
functioning of social roles that includes quality of life, family burden and social relationships
like work life and leisure life. These social roles are basically the major burdens for depressed
people who live their lives in the community. But, as time passes by it becomes much easier for
them to share their thoughts and get this burden out of their head after listening to other stories of
people living in the same community. Sharing bitter thoughts enable people to compare their
own negative events that have caused depression that eventually helps them to get their burden
off chest with minimal assistance of healthcare professionals or staff in the community.
In accordance with Jacobs (2016), the community health care for treating depression focuses on
disabilities and deficits of people that have caused depression. It also centres upon the
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aspirations, capacities and strengths of people in order to access the mind recovery stage. The
support services by the community healthcare aims to enhance the ability of a person in order to
develop an identity that is positive enough to frame their depression experience and self manage
A community health care that treats adults in overcoming their depression is a broadly defined
case. In particular, there are many factors which are considered while curing these people in the
adversity, strengths of social networks, communities, families and corporations that surround
people who suffer from depressive signs (Oud, Mayo-Wilson, Braidwood et al, 2016). The
individuals directly or indirectly call for a commitment to social justice by communicating the
need of undeserved population like homeless people, mortality in children and youth, ethnic
minorities and basic service provision where those people in need can be located and live in a
After reviewing the research work by Deegan, Carpenter-Song, Drake et al (2017) in the
literature review, a critical analysis can be extracted from it. Evidence is found from the practical
ethics and clinical studies where a scientific approach to community healthcare service is shown
to prioritize the best available data on the interventions and its effectiveness while treating
depression. At this period of time, there are individuals residing in the community healthcare that
not only undergoes the depression but have no clue what they are currently experiencing. Hence,
for recovery stage, it is utterly significant to let these people know about their depression and the
cause that have led them to that particular depressive stage. But, it should be made to an extent
that healthcare professionals understand people. This approach seems very appropriate for
considering the available options for the interventions and helpful information that can assist in
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treating depression rapidly. Hence, the overall effect would reflect upon decision making
process, its effectiveness and minimize side effects while knowing the preferences of suffered
people.
The treatment and recovery of people suffering from depression depends greatly on the
intervention strategies used in the community healthcare. Generally, there are two intervention
strategies that prove helpful in the recovery from depression among adults. The first process in
the individual-centred strategy that develops the skills of patient in communicating the most
painful events that motivates them to get stronger and inspire other patient to get through their
depression. The second intervention strategy is the ecological approach and it directs towards the
development of environmental resources for reducing potential stressors (that made people to
suffer from depression). After reviewing the interventions, it can be said that the first strategy
gives more energy and power to overcome the depression in lesser amount of time as compared
to second strategy.
The structural components of healthcare, like policies and resources (facilities, healthcare
workforce and training) that bear measurement-based care are essential to achieve high-quality
health care. Although, the relevant structural measures provide the essential infrastructure to
report on results, processes and implementation of improvement measures, yet, they do not offer
enough information on the quality of services or the outcomes that are actually being provided as
Chapter 5: Conclusion
Introduction
This chapter will conclude the findings that have been obtained and discussed in previous
chapter. A brief literature review will also be highlighted in order to draw necessary and main
Synthesis of Conclusion
The research study is based upon people suffering from depression and their recovery from
community health care. Depression is considered as one of the most critical issues among adults.
As the number of adult population is increasing, the occurrence of depression is expected to rise
with the passage of time. The research study has investigated the risk of depression and the
factors that cause depressive symptoms. The identified factors that carry the tendency of causing
depression are poor health status, financial position, leisure life and social interaction.
The research has explored some of the gaps that are evident from the literature review. There are
previous research studies that have been conducted on investigating the phenomena of
depression and the chronic diseases that might happen after depression. It has been revealed that
addiction disorder and other mental illnesses are other issues that might trap a depressed patient
Depression in adults causes poor health and is generally considered a risk factor for people.
Recent studies have shown that people with high chronic disease were at greater risk for
depression than those who did not have chronic disease. Meanwhile, people with low health had
a higher risk of depression than people with good self-esteem. But, there are some studies that
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have been studied that have shown that health is not the only factor directly related to depression
in adults.
The dependency of a depressed patient inclines upon the community health care staff in order to
assist them to cope with their lives. It is the utmost responsibility of health care nurses to
maintain their life balance and build new relationship while living with other patients going
through similar or worsen stages of depression while keeping least amount of their presence. The
least amount of aid is necessary in order to make depressed patients feel that it was their self
interest to recover from depression while they were under medical treatments. There are people
who live in community health care do not realise what they are going through. Therefore, it is
absolutely vital for the recovery phase to inform these people about their depression and the
cause that led them to this particular depressive episode. However, this must be done so that
health professionals understand people. This approach seems to be very suitable to consider the
available options for interventions and useful information that can help in the rapid treatment of
depression. Therefore, the overall effect would be reflected in the decision making process and in
its effectiveness, minimizing the side effects of knowing the preferences of the sufferer.
In response to the medical treatment in community healthcare, there exists a large gap of the
effectiveness of recovery from depression among adults. The investigation in the research study
has revealed that there are certain medical conditions in depression that has to be explored due to
which it lays a significant influence upon the effectiveness of depression treatments. Another
reason for this gap existence is that depression occurs in practical world which most of the time
The research has identified different roles of community health care staff in regard of treatment
of depression. It has discussed the guidelines that can be used for depression recovery for the
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community health care personnel for which the most appropriate goal is to provide medical
attention and care for a person suffering from depression. This is inclusive of establishing a trust
based relation and empathy with the depressed patient and encouraging them to use positivism in
their routine life. This practice enables the depressed patients to overcome the trauma that have
made them to suffer with depression. It also encourages the patient in developing a mechanism to
cope up with negative events and use problem solving skills with other patients. This creates a
positive health behavior like healthy choices, healthy lifestyle and medical compliance. During
the period of residing in a community health care, the medical personnel ensure to promote the
engagement of a patient with their support and social network. They also make sure that an
effective collaboration is established between other relevant medical service providers by means
of effective working communication and relationships. It is vital to promote and support the self
care activities among depressed patients as it revives their relations with their family and loved
ones and motivates them to overcome depression in order to live back to their normal lives.
There are researches that states the psychologists are more prone for assuming the psychological
behavior while it is quite probable that psychiatrists argue that depression is a discontinuous state
or a category. This biasness in views is most likely to reflect the professional socialization of
each psychologists group that operates in the statistical assumptions regarding depressive
behavior and experience of negative events. On the other hand, the medical practitioners are
taught to differentiate between normal and abnormal behavior by emphasizing on the diagnostic
criteria of depression.
Authors who have focused on the cognitive characteristics of depressive behavior, there is no
current definition of the work that is offered on depression, but there is a wide range of
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symptoms that have been explored. This approach shows evidence in the surveys of some
biologists and psychologists because of their psychological orientation. This is a clear indication
A critical analysis of the literature shows that there is a significant impact or influence of
community care on patients and rehabilitation practices in a person's mental illness. Basically, it
changes the perception of how one looks at things and perceives them inwardly and outwardly.
Many patients are healed and have learned to look at the world from a completely new
perspective and lead a normal life. In fact, community-based health care enables people to move
from a model for mental illness, such as depression, to a functional disability model. There are
other measures that are obtained due to clinical conditions that describe that they are sufficiently
relevant and consistent with the stage of the patient's mental illness.
There are mainly two interventions used for the treatment of depression. The first intervention is
individual-centred strategy while the second intervention is ecological strategy. Through proper
investigation, it can be said that the first intervention appears to be more effective in the
community healthcare. The reason for its effectiveness is that it requires less amount of health
care personnel engagement and it can be used at any stage of depression of patient.
Implications
The first implication occurs during the suggestion of middle or third position of critical realism.
This is because it will prove more helpful approach for investigating the factors that cause
depression among adults. This approach ensures that a proper caution is carried about cultural
and historical relativism with no degeneration into never ending nihilism and relativism that
meet social constructionism. This position is also aligned with the empirical findings about the
multiple determinants of depression and does not collapse into the medical naturalism and its
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nave realism. This implication is concerned with research, given that the depression concept is
extremely narrow for allowing the specification of biological and cognitive mediators of distress.
It might be necessary to imply the research focus on more narrowed defined experience and
behaviors like anhedonia, fatigue and low self esteem as experienced in particular social setting.
The second implication is based on a critical realist view for misery that is concerned with
depression formulation and associated interventions. The treatment followed for depression for
recovery in community health care setting suggest that many psychological approaches might act
helpful but using a combination of cognitive behavior therapy and antidepressant medication is
Meanwhile, it is not surprising that a cognitive and biological pincer approach appears to be
effective in contrast to no treatment for helping depressive patients. There still exists a risk of
patient. The technical treatment might obscure the approach but there is a possibility to help the
patient to recover at a rapid pace. For instance, poor task control or insecurity in job roles might
increase the risk of depression among people. Also issues like unemployment often raise a
probability of suicide and demoralization. These points are helpful in diagnosis or identification
of depressive states in a person who is never willing to reveal their relationships and their
internal feelings that require social interaction rather than following the inquiry methods of
psychiatry.
Both implications are provided to focus upon the idiosyncratic formulations of patients’ current
and antecedent conditions. It is inclusive of the patient’s self attributed meaning that has shaped
the expression and experience of patient’s depression or distress. The approach and its relative
signs are evident already with the feminist therapy and community psychology with its
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therapeutically orientated forms. But, there is a latter for the psychodynamic roots and it has
been criticized several times for being prone to the psychological reductionism.
There is a holistic understanding that still persists and would meet the social determinants of
depression and would invite the exploration of individual attribute meanings of a depressed
patient. This understanding would be same to the current practices used in CBT (Cognitive
Behavior Therapy) but it will also include applying the lessons learnt from the model by
Abramson. This is because there is a strong evidence that has explored different antecedent
stressors in the context of sociological research on quality of life and healthy lifestyles. In the
most traditional form of CBT, it is still prone to the psychological reductionism as it relies upon
the cognitive processes of a person and implies that reality is not an issue, it is the direction that
is construed.
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