Annotated Bibliography

Alec, Roy. "Depression and Marriage." Psychiatric Journal of the University of

Ottawa 2nd ser. Vol .10 (June 1985): 101-03. Web.

Alec Roy wrote his psychiatric journal after he assessed over 100 married
couples where one of the spouses had a mental disorder. He found out many
interesting things about the couples and their relationships. One of his main
discoveries was that more than half of the couples had poor marriages
because of the mental disorder that one of the spouses had. The study
suggested that individuals who are prone to depression or any sort of mental
disorders lack the skills they need in order to have a good marriage or
relationship. Sometimes the marriage can actually be worse on the marriage,
according to this study, because of all the stress and problems that may go
with the marriage. He ended this article by saying when you are assessing a
marriage where one person is suffering from something like depression or
any other mental disorder, you need to pay close attention to the
relationship and see whether It is helping them and benefitting them or if it is
making it worse for them.

Beach, Steven R. H., Evelyn E. Sandeen, K. Daniel O'Leary, and David H.

Barlow. Depression in marriage: a model for etiology and treatment.
New York: Guilford Press, 1990. Books.google.com. Google. Web.

This book focuses on marriage counselors and why they should make sure
that they keep their knowledge on mental illnesses and depression updated
so they know how to treat their patients correctly throughout their therapy.
The counselors need to be able to know how to properly diagnose and treat
their patients in the best way that they can. The book also focused on how
there is a difference between treating a person when they are single and
depressed than when the person is married or in an intimate relationship and
depressed. Usually what the marital counselors find when treating a couple
where one of them is suffering depression is that the marriage is in someway
suffering because one of them doesnt know how to handle it. This book
mainly answers questions that people who are dealing with a depressed
spouse or partner may have about their relationship, how to deal with it, and
how to get help. It also answers lots of questions about how depression
should be treated when dealing with marriage counseling or regular
counselors. It talks about the importance of seeking help when you or your
spouse are suffering with depression.

Coyne, James C. "Depression, Biology, Marriage and Marital Therapy." Journal

of Marital and Family Therapy 13.4 (October 1987): 393-407. Web.
This article focuses primarily on marital counselors and how they have an
impact to either help or hurt couples who have someone that suffers from
depression. Coyne writes about how the counselors have to make sure they
focus on how the mental disability can affect the relationship. It also talks
about how the marriage counselor needs to tell other people who are
reaching things like mental disorders and depression the findings they have
when are helping these couples so they are able to progress on their
research. This article not only talks about depression and its impact on
marriage, and marital counseling and how it affects depression, but it also
gives you a whole background on depression and how it has progressed over
the years. The article talks about the difference between medicating
depression or just doing therapy to improve it as well. But the main point
that they like to focus on throughout the article is the impact that depression
has on a marriage.

Gove, Walter R., and Michael R. Geerken. " The Effect of Children and
Employment on the Mental Health of Married Men and Women." Social
Forces 56.1 (September 1977): 66-76. Web.

This book talks about how the difference between men and women when it
comes to mental health. The authors talked about how women are extremely
more likely to develop a mental illness than men are. The book goes into
detail about the major differences between men and women, from their
social lives all the way to the probability of developing a mental illness. The
book also states that men and women are highly likely to develop a mental ill
while married and In a family. They werent able to come up with the specific
reason why this happen, whether it is because of the children or the
struggles in the relationship, but they have discovered that a very high
percentage of people have developed a mental illness after entering into a
very serious relationship or starting a family with someone. The book also
indicates that their roles in the family and sex differences, do have an impact
on why men are not as likely as women to develop the mental illnesses.

Harvey, John H., and Amy Wenzel. Close romantic relationships: maintenance
and enhancement. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
2001. Books.google.com. Google. Web. 299-310

Harvey and Wenzel focus in this book is intimate relationships, and the part
that I focused on was how something like depression can impact a romantic
relationship. The book talked about how someone who is affected by
something like depression arent always aware that their actions may be
affecting their relationship. They also arent able to tell that their relationship
is being affected at all and they may think that there is just something wrong
with them and not the relationship itself. The book goes on to talk about
specific instances and certain circumstances that may be affected by the
person who suffers from depression. The authors go into to detail talking
about how certain people dont think that depression can impact a
relationship. However, the authors make sure to go into detail and provide
specific evidence showing the impact it has on intimate relationships. Then
the book provides examples of how and what is specifically affected by the
mental illness and provides an in depth description for the leader. It talks
about how each person feels and what factors of depression contribute to the
raltionship falling apart.

Beach, Steven R. H., Evelyn E. Sandeen, K. Daniel O'Leary, and David H.

Barlow. Depression in marriage: a model for etiology and treatment.
New York: Guilford Press, 1990. Books.google.com. Google. Web.