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Social origins of depression: a study of psychiatric disorder in women
- Authors:
- BROWN George W., HARRIS Tirril
- Publisher:
- Tavistock
- Publication year:
- 1978
- Pagination:
- 410p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Befriending as an intervention for chronic depression among women in an inner city
- Authors:
- HARRIS Tirril, BROWN George V., ROBINSON Ruth
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 174, March 1999, pp.219-224.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Evaluates volunteer befriending as an intervention among women with chronic depression in inner London. The findings are discussed in relation to standard drug-trial results and to another befriending intervention with the elderly. Concludes that the results are not unpromising. Additional trials with less restricted intake conditions, and in more naturalistic general practice settings, might confirm volunteer befriending as a useful adjunct to current treatments.