Episode 3: Social Context - Depression from the Outside | Making healthcare better, together.

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CHAPTER 8: FRIENDS AND FAMILY

How depression affected Sifuentes’ friendships
How depression affected Sifuentes’ familial relationships
An introduction to Oscar and Rosa Sifuentes (Lucero’s brother and mother, respectively)
The full conversation with Oscar Sifuentes:
The full conversation with Rosa Sifuentes:
The value of demystifying depression – for everyone involved

CHAPTER 9: A MODEL THAT MIRRORS A MESSY REALITY

An introduction to Bernice Pescosolido
Pescosolido’s Network Episode Model and its role in identifying mental health issues
The full conversation with Bernice Pescosolido:
Differences in opinion about the NEM
The importance of institutional support systems

CHAPTER 10: UNPACKING SOCIAL DETERMINANTS AND DISMANTLING STIGMA

Personal identity, social environment, and mental health triggers
Sifuentes’ experience as an ethnic minority and her decision to move to Spain
The importance of accountability and support in seeking and continuing treatment
The full conversation with Mary Carter:
Socioeconomic status and mental health
The full conversation with Hannah Sanii:
The need for social support structures at every level to help with mental health
A trend of greater discussion and awareness leading to less stigma around mental health

PEOPLE

Caroline Leland – Freelance Journalist; Contributing Factors Host & Producer
Lucero Sifuentes – Individual living with Major Depressive Disorder
Oscar Sifuentes – Brother of Lucero
Rosa Sifuentes – Mother of Lucero
Bernice Pescosolido – Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Indiana University; Director of the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research
Mary Carter – Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, The Renfrew Center
Hannah Sanii – Clinical Social Work Associate, Gaston Family Health Services

LINKS

Overview of Depression (NAMI.org)

Social Determinants of Mental Health (WHO, 2014)

Risk for Recurrence in Depression (Stephanie L. Burcusa and William G. Iacono, 2008)

Depression will affect approximately one in six men and one in four women in their lifetimes.

A 2005 American Journal of Psychiatry study found that only half of families with a depressed member perceived their own family functioning as healthy. Meanwhile, clinicians rated 70 percent — that’s more than two-thirds — of those same families as unhealthy.

Social Network Activation: The Role of Health Discussion Partners in Recovery from a Mental Illness (Perry and Pescosolido, 2014)

Using The Network Episode Model To Highlight The Complexity Of Seeking Service (Boydell, 2013)

Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health (Aneshensel, Phelan, Bierman 2012)

How People Get Into Mental Health Services (Pescosolido, Gardner, Lubell, 1998)

At the time of recording, the federal legislature had not approved funding beyond March 31, 2018, for community health clinics like the one where Hannah Sanii works.

On Feb. 8, 2018, Congress approved The Community Health Center Fund, providing two years of funding to Sanii’s clinic and others like it.