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Description:: Depression is a challenging mental illness that requires individuals to manage their moods and emotions over time. While past mental health literature describes how individuals seek and share support on social media and within online communities, the ways that offline and one-on-one supportive interactions unfold is less clear. To address...
Keyword:: Self-Management, Human-Computer Interaction, Sociality, Mental Health, Communication Technology, and Depression
Subject:: Mental health, Design, and Communication
Creator:: Burgess, Eleanor R.
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/28/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15512 and etdadmin_upload_811409

Description:: South Africa’s rates of mental, neurological, and substance use disorders are among the highest in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2016, the estimated 12-month prevalence for any psychiatric disorder was 16.2%, or approximately 9.1 million individuals. Despite these elevated rates of psychiatric morbidity, access to mental health treatment is poor: only 27%...
Keyword:: trauma , mental health, biological anthropology & human biology, South Africa, prenatal stress, and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis
Subject:: Epidemiology, Mental health, and Developmental biology
Creator:: Kim, Andrew Wooyoung
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15411 and etdadmin_upload_780918

Description:: This dissertation examines the birth and rise of orthorexia nervosa, a proposed psychiatric diagnosis described as a pathological fixation with healthy eating. Orthorexia made its first public appearance in the pages of a popular magazine for yoga practitioners in 1997, and later in a self-help book on the subject. Despite...
Keyword:: health journalism, media, medicalization, orthorexia, and mediatization
Subject:: Mental health, Sociology, and Communication
Creator:: Ross Arguedas, Amy A.
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 04/29/2020
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_715870 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14974

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