Session 3: Depression
Pastoral Care and COVID-19
Session 3 : Depression
Watch the video lecture (below) and then use the Zoom link below to join the live discussion at 7pm EST on Thursday, May 7.
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Suggested Readings
- How Social Media Leads to Depression
- WebMD Guide to Depression Symptoms
- Suicide Rates Rise Over the Past Two Decades
- Kids Today Face Surging Rates of Anxiety and Depression
- Coronavirus: ‘Depression feels like my cat is sitting on my chest’
- COVID-19 Could Bring an Epidemic of Depression…
- Suicide concerns mount as COVID-19 affects mental health
Session Video Lecture
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Dr. Wade Rowatt
Dr. Wade Rowatt has taught Pastoral Care and Counseling for over 37 years. He is currently the Senior Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at BSK: Baptist Seminary of Kentucky. Wade also supervises Pastoral Counselors in Training and conducts a Parish and Community Program in Clinical Pastoral Education.
Dr. Dartanya Hill
Dr. Dartanya Hill is Pastor of West End Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky and a licensed psychologist. Dr. Hill also regularly teaches at BSK: Baptist Seminary of Kentucky as an adjunct professor in the area of pastoral care.
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With unemployment on the rise, is anyone seeing more persons struggling with depression?
What challenges are unique or specific to those who work with immigrant or refugee populations?
What is the general perception of mental health issues among the populations you work with? Are they open to receiving help? How is suicide viewed within those cultures? Are you comfortable in doing assessments with people, either for depression or suicide? What informal systems to they use to combat depression, deal with anxiety, stress? Do you think people will receive help for depression? Do you have a referral list that you use?
Other Readings (more immigrant/refugee specific)
As we consider not only depression but also other types of mental illness or challenges in our populations, check out NAMI. There’s a national website (they have a lot of Spanish resources), and local chapters closer to home. National Alliance on Mental Illness — https://www.nami.org/Home. You can search their website for articles related to immigrants and refugees.
And here are a few more articles you may find of interest around the topic of depression or mental health in general with refugees and immigrants.
The Increased Vulnerability of Refugee Population to Mental Health Disorders — https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5834240/
Older Refugees Have High Levels of Depression even Decades After Immigration to Canada — https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-01-older-refugees-high-depression-decades.html
What Depression Means when you’re an Immigrant’s Kid — https://folks.pillpack.com/what-depression-means-when-youre-an-immigrants-kid/