Proceedings of the 2022 5th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2022)

The Causes of Depression and Its Social Factor

Authors
Jiupeng Xiang1, *
1Psychology Department, School of South-West University, Chongqing, China
*Corresponding author. Email: 15000240208@xs.hnit.edu.cn
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Jiupeng Xiang
Available Online 30 December 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_352How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Depression; Discrimination; Psycho-therapy; Drug-therapy
Abstract

Higher rates of depression in college students are more frequent now, probably caused by studying, stress, living away from their family, inefficiency in higher education or various discrimination, etc. Among all these factors, it is crucial to get a complete comprehension of depression and different stress, and so on. Besides, due to research surveys on college students, 10 to 20 % of the student population suffers from psychological problems. And this paper briefly describes the definition of depression and discrimination and treatments. It focuses on discrimination such as gender, racial, direct, indirect, and depression among college students. Particular ways are greatly emphasized to help students with depression and suggested preventive measures to be taken by colleges like psychotherapy, drug therapy, exercise, etc. According to this study and recent research on depression and discrimination among college students, burden, epidemiology, diagnosis, comorbidity, and treatment of depression have attracted much attention, particularly in general medical conditions, and get a better understanding of the recognition, diagnosis, and optimal management of depression in available medical settings and reducing some of these problems in the future and make better modification on its treatment.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 5th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
30 December 2022
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_352
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_352How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2022 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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