RESEARCH
Collect
Intersect
Create
- Contrast global & cultural differences w/modern (Western) mental health definitions
- Incorporate global perspectives into understanding mental health experiences
- Find stories and patterns that challenge current theory
- Disconnect between institutional practices & minorities/the globe
- Eastern vs Western values applied to wellness
- Western biomedical model of depression & treatment
- Stories of minority & global mental health experiences
- Intersection of racial identity & psychology/psychiatry
- Challenges to modern mental health institutions
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- Digital media project of the stories and experiences I encounter
- Established patterns of thought that may contribute to & challenge institutional mental health understanding
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CONTRAST EASTERN vs WESTERN values
& how they affect mental health experiences of people of different backgrounds.
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to
EXPRESS how Western biomedical views on depression may DISCONNECT from local or cultural understandings of depression.
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and
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EXPLORE how
(i) the lack of global perspectives in Western biomedical treatment may minimize alternative experiences and further isolates psychological subjects
but
(ii) incorporating global perspectives in understanding and treating depression may enhance current mental health treatment, for minorities and all people.
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