Murmuring Tigers

Summary by author Maggie:

It's common to view that people will somehow show their over-sympathy or under-sympathy towards people with disabilities. Sometimes,  people with disabilities will be ignored and disregarded by people around them as they are invisible. While, sometimes, people will pay too much attention to them like this disabled people is unnatural landscape or sculpture. What do disabled people need and what are they puzzled about? Through interviews with a Chinese and an American, the truth is it is not the disability that bother disabled people’s lives, but others’ response they can receive. So, to respect their rights and keep right.

Works Cited:

Fois, Daniela. “Disability Bias and the Misrepresentation of Chronic Illness and Invisible Disability in Contemporary YA   Fiction.”

Stockholm University, 2018.

Hampson, Margaret E, et al. “Beliefs About Employment of People Living with Psychosis.” Australian Journal of Psychology, 2018, pp.

103–112.

Healey, Justin. People with Disability. Spinney Press, 2017.

Stoddard, Martha. “Melodramatic Bodies.” University of Michigan Press. 2004.

Summary by author Hazel:

Mental health is like a balance beam that could be easily changed by external power and our  weight  as  well.  In  other  words,  the  surrounding  environment  and  how  we  think  of ourselves are decisive factors. One can not live in isolation. Therefore, his inner and outward relationships would shape the mental development. Children’s mental health plays a role as a milestone, yet it is malleable. Parenting and education in different cultural contexts interplay with each other, and they in turn endow culture with new meanings.

Works Cited

Works CitedBornstein,    Marc    H.    "Parenting    and    child    mental    health:    a    cross‐cultural perspective." World Psychiatry, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 258-265.

Huang,   Larke,   et   al.   "Transforming   mental   health   care   for   children   and   their families." American Psychologist, vol. 60, no. 6, p. 615.

Farmer,  Elizabeth  MZ,  et  al.  "Pathways  into  and  through  mental  health  services  for children and adolescents." Psychiatric services, vol. 54, no.1, pp. 60-66.

Perou,  Ruth,  et  al.  "Mental  health  surveillance  among  children—United  States,  2005–2011." MMWR Suppl, vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 1-35.

Summary by author Kevin:

This podcast mainly compares the cognition of psychiatric disability in Chinese and American culture. In order to discuss this topic, the host conducted a survey on a Chinese and an American respectively. In China, only those who have been ill for more than a year and have not been cured are medically called psychiatric disabilities. However, there is no such time limit in the United States. Generally speaking, the way of defining psychiatric disability in China and the United States is almost the same: "Psychiatric disability is considered to be a condition that can not engage in the activities that the society expects individuals to participate in, or can not achieve personal goals, as well as the existence of cognitive, emotional and behavioral disorders that affect the participation in daily life and activities." Then, the host and guests discussed how people should eliminate discrimination against the psychiatric disability and how people should change their attitudes towards the mentally disabled.

Works Cited

Rudnick, Abraham. "What is a Psychiatric Disability?" Health Care Analysis : HCA 22.2 (2014): 105-13. ProQuest.

Pratt, Carlos W., et al. Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Elsevier Science & Technology, 2013. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brenauuniv/detail.action?docID=4417191.

李致军. 精神病就是精神残疾吗？https://www.cnki.com.cn/Article/CJFDTotal-JTSZ202001280.htm

百科.精神残疾https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E7%B2%BE%E7%A5%9E%E6%AE%8B%E7%96%BE/6366792?fr=aladdin

Summary by author Rico:

In both China and the United States, the ideas about causes and symptoms of depression are similar. China and the United States have similar ways of diagnosis: self-evaluation, and doctor’s evaluation, and some measuring scales are the same. And they both treat depression based on three levels: mild, moderate, and severe, and three kinds of treatments: psychotherapy, medications, and physical therapy. Psychotherapy is popular in China but not widely use like medications in the United States. In both China and the United States, when use medications, doctors also use psychotherapy at the same time. Physical therapies are not the first treatment options in both China and US.

Bibliography

Higuera, Valencia. “Everything You Want to Know About Depression.” Healthline, 11 Feb. 2020. https://www.healthline.com/health/depression#treatment. Accessed 29 March 2021.

Li, Lingjiang. “Depression.” https://www.baidu.com/bh/dict/ydxx_10809747006968774608?tab=%E6%A6%82%E8%BF%B0&title=%E6%8A%91%E9%83%81%E7%97%87&contentid=ydxx_10809747006968774608&query=%E6%8A%91%E9%83%81%E7%97%87&sf_ref=dict_home&from=dicta. Accessed 29 March 2021.

Olfson, Mark, et al. “Treatment of Adult Depression in the United States.” JAMA Intern Med, 2016. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2546155. Accessed 29 March 2021.

Summary by author Lesley

In western culture, men are the embodiment of reason, while women are the synonym of irrationality. In various texts, madness is both defect and essence of women. In a "male-dominated" society, all female diseases are understood as diseases of “resistance” and "perceived by men." Gilman's short story The Yellow Wallpaper represents the hysterical cry of women at that time. In China, there are many social prejudices and misunderstandings about women's mental illness, and women's mental health has received less attention. Through the comparison of Chinese and American literature, I hope to explore the metaphor of mental illness, the gender difference of the narrators and the reasons for such prejudice.

References:

Tasca, Cecilia, et al. “Women And Hysteria In The History Of Mental Health.” Clinical Practice & Epidemiology in Mental Health, vol. 8, no. 1, 2012, pp. 110–119., doi:10.2174/1745017901208010110.

王青. "从病态幻觉到文学经典——离魂型故事的心理基础与文学创造." 明清小说研究 000.002(2014):36-53.

“'Everybody Was Telling Me There Was Nothing Wrong'.” BBC Future, BBC, www.bbc.com/future/article/20180523-how-gender-bias-affects-your-healthcare

Tyson, Lois. Critical Theory Today. Routledge, 2015, pp. 271.

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Summary by author Emma

In recent years, more and more cases of depression have appeared, but it has always been a topic that is easily ignored and not understood. And in the traditional sense, the United States pays more attention to and treats psychological problems than China. Their treatment methods are also more advanced. This podcast discusses the general attitude towards depression in China and the west and the influence of cultural differences on people's attitudes. At the same time, depression is discussed from the perspective of depression patients, professionals, and the general public.

Bibliography

Jia, Jianping. Psychiatry. Edited by Hao, Wei. Lu, Lin. People's Medical Publishing House, 2018.

"Depression: let’s talk" says WHO, as depression tops list of causes of ill health. https://www.who.int/news/item/30-03-2017--depression-let-s-talk-says-who-as-depression-tops-list-of-causes-of-ill-health (Links to an external site.)

Wilkinson, P. O., Harris, C., Kelvin, R., Dubicka, B., & Goodyer, I. M. (2013). Associations between adolescent depression and parental mental health, before and after treatment of adolescent depression. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 22(1), 3-11. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00787-012-0310-9 (Links to an external site.)

"Takeda G Protein–Coupled Receptor 5 Modulates Depression-like Behaviors via Hippocampal CA3 Pyramidal Neurons Afferent to Dorsolateral Septum". https://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-3223(20)32079-5/fulltext

Summary by author Meghan:

By studying attitudes toward infertility between Chinese and American cultures, I realized that infertility is not a difficult topic to broach and infertility deserves the care of society. People with infertility should not be pressured by alternative visions because of their gender. Americans are more open to the problem of infertility than Chinese. Chinese women are far more likely than American women to suffer from infertility. Men and women in the infertile population should receive the same testing and treatment. There is something to be learned from America’s attitude toward infertility.

References:

“What You Need to Know About Infertility.” American Pregnancy Association Web, https://americanpregnancy.org/getting-pregnant/infertility/what-you-need-to-know-about-infertility-68352/ (Links to an external site.). Accessed 8 March 2021.

Schmidt, Lone, et al. "Patients’ attitudes to medical and psychosocial aspects of care in fertility clinics: findings from the Copenhagen Multi‐centre Psychosocial Infertility (COMPI) Research Programme." Human Reproduction 18.3 (2003): 628-637.Gillian, Thomas, Because of Sex: One law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women’s lives at Work, edited by Yilin, translated by Li Mingqian, 2019.

He, Shunchang, Jiang Xue. “On the development of Chinese traditional fertility culture.” Journal of Jiamusi Vocational College, 2016. Print.

Yao, Hong, Celia Hoi Yan Chan, and Cecilia Lai Wan Chan. "Childbearing importance: A qualitative study of women with infertility in China." Research in nursing & health 41.1 (2018): 69-77.

Gerhard, Robert S., et al. "Awareness of and attitudes towards infertility and its treatment: a cross-sectional survey of men in a United States primary care population." Asian journal of andrology 16.6 (2014): 858.

Summary by author Twincy: I  want  to  know  the  difference  between  the  treatment  of  depression  in  China  and  the United States. In modern society, depression is a disease that many young people will get.  Due  to  the  global  spread  of  the  epidemic,  people's  mental  pressure  is  gradually increasing. I am very curious about the impact of the epidemic on the psychology of people  in  different  cultures  and  social  environments.  In  addition,  before  the  study started,  I  was  very  curious  about  the  attitude  of  Chinese  parents  after  their  children were  diagnosed  with  depression.  Because  in  China,  few  parents  take  the  initiative  to care about their children's mental health.

References

1. Ma  Huan.  "Research  on  the  etiology  and  pathogenesis  of  depression."  Liaoning Journal of traditional Chinese medicine 32.006 (2005): 537-538

2.    Chen  Yuning  et  al.  "Mental  health  status  of  residents  during  the  period  of  New Coronavirus pneumonia." general practice clinical and education 3 (2020).

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Sining Lyu's take on identity and culture shock, which many international (Chinese) students have experienced studying in the US.