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APFCC: Brown and Harris
Found the serious life events of women reflect whether or not they develop depression. To investigate the social origins of depression in women They studied women who had suffered a serious life event and whether that lead to depression. They found that 29/32 women who were suffering from depression had a previous serious life event. BUT 78% of people who did experience a serious life event DIDN’T become depressed. Also life events that were similar to previous experiences were more likely to lead to depression. From this research they proposed a vulnerability model. This put forward several factors that were more likely to lead to depression: like lacking of employment, loss of mother at early age, childhood abuse, having several young children and a lack of social support. This only examines depression in relation to women, making it very difficult to be able to generalise to men. Page 154-155 - Crane and Hannibal Crane Site: cranepsych.edublogs.org/2010/11/23/review-question-analyze-aetiologies-of-one-disorder/
 * Theorist ** : Brown and Harris
 * Study ** ** of **: Social origin of depression
 * Year ** : 1978
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