At last, we found some basic characteristics in Chinese kinship. Couple and child-parent are still the pivots in present urban China. Filial piety is undergoing many changes. For adult children, parents are important in instrumental supports. And siblings are hardly regarded as expected supporters. / For urban Chinese, close-kin playa prominent role in all the support networks. Close-kin include adult children, parents, and siblings. Additionally, supportive roles of different kin are diffused. Spouse and adult children are the most prominent source of support for dealing with both instrumental and emotional problems. In particular, their emotional supports are more significantly beneficial to people's mental health. Parents are the important instrumental supporters, rather than in emotional aspects. Siblings are sitable for contact, but they are not the expected supporters. Extended kin relations are insignificant in any of support dimensions. / It is widely recognized that social relationships have powerful effects on mental health. This empirical study aims at examining this theory among urban Chinese. Based on the dataset of "social networks and mental health in Beijing in 2000", the focus of this research is how depression of the residents in Beijing is related to their kinship (especially, close-kin) networks and supports. The network structural characters include "network size", "frequency of contact", and "residence distance". The functional elements of support include instrumental support and emotional support. CES-D (The Centre for Epidemiological Studies of Depression scale) is used to measure depression. / The major findings in theoretical dimension are: (1) Social supports have main effects, namely social supports are helpful to mental health regardless of stressors people might experience. (2) Some kinds of kinship networks have direct and indirect effects (mediated by kinship supports) on depression. This result also partially confirms "the support argument", which suggests that the social networks enhance the likelihood of accessing support which in turn provides the protective function against distress. / 孫薇薇. / Adviser: Rance Pui Leng Lee. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-10, Section: A, page: . / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-212). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [201-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Sun Weiwei.

Background Alterations of mental status are characteristic of psychiatric disorders but may also result from a multitude of organic causes. Generally, physical examination and blood analysis are a part of basic psychiatric differential diagnostics, whereas more sophisticated procedures (for example, brain imaging) are applied only in cases with pathologic diagnostic findings. Our report challenges this approach by describing a case of glioblastoma multiforme presenting as postpartum depression without abnormalities in basic differential diagnostics. Case presentation A 28-year-old white woman who had been in outpatient treatment for postpartum depression was taken to the psychiatric emergency room. The psychopathological assessment, however, showed mild disorientation and severe deficits of long-term memory. Moreover, she complained of stabbing, bilateral headaches, but results of her physical examination and blood analysis were unremarkable. Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain was performed, which showed a contrast-enhanced mass lesion in the left frontal lobe. The patient underwent urgent tumor resection, and histologic results revealed an IDH-mutant glioblastoma multiforme. The patient was discharged with a substantially improved psychopathology and without neurological deficits. Conclusions This report adds to the evidence that postpartum depression may have organic causes in some cases, a fact that needs to be considered in the clinical setting. Atypical neurocognitive findings in a psychiatric interview may alone justify brain imaging, despite normal physical examination and blood analysis results.

Chow Yuet-ming. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 254-262). / Abstracts in English and Chinese, appendix in Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgement --- p.iv / Chapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Rationale for Selecting this Research Topic --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Research Objectives --- p.4 / Chapter 1.3 --- Research Questions --- p.5 / Chapter 1.4 --- Overview of the Present Thesis --- p.5 / Chapter Chapter 2: --- Literature review --- p.7 / Chapter 2.1 --- Anorexia Nervosa in Western Countries --- p.7 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Historical Perspective --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Biomedical Perspective --- p.10 / Chapter 2.1.2.1 --- Physiological manifestation of anorexia nervosa patients --- p.10 / Chapter 2.1.2.2 --- Behavioral manifestation of anorexia nervosa patients --- p.12 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- Psychological Models --- p.14 / Chapter 2.1.3.1 --- Bruch ´ةs view --- p.14 / Chapter 2.1.3.2 --- Minuchin´ةs view --- p.16 / Chapter 2.1.3.3 --- Palazzoli 's view --- p.17 / Chapter 2.1.4 --- Sociological Perspective --- p.24 / Chapter 2.1.5 --- Summary of Part I (2.1) --- p.30 / Chapter 2.2 --- Psychology of Self-development --- p.33 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- "Erikson ,s identity formation" --- p.33 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Women self-development --- p.38 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Bowen's differentiation of self --- p.42 / Chapter 2.2.4 --- Summary of Part II (2.2) --- p.46 / Chapter 2.3 --- Anorexia Nervosa in Hong Kong Context --- p.48 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- The notion of self in traditional Chinese family --- p.49 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Women position in Hong Kong --- p.55 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- Related research in Hong Kong --- p.62 / Chapter 2.3.4 --- Summary of Part III (2.3) --- p.69 / Chapter Chapter 3: --- Theoretical framework --- p.71 / Chapter 3.1 --- Theoretical Framework as Summarized from the Literature Review --- p.71 / Chapter 3.2 --- Definition of Terms --- p.77 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Anorexia nervosa --- p.77 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Family --- p.78 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Family interaction --- p.79 / Chapter 3.2.4 --- Family rule --- p.79 / Chapter 3.2.5 --- Family myths --- p.80 / Chapter 3.2.6 --- Family myths as quest for meaning --- p.80 / Chapter 3.2.7 --- Meaning --- p.80 / Chapter 3.2.8 --- Power --- p.81 / Chapter 3.2.9 --- Power struggle --- p.81 / Chapter 3.2.10 --- Differentiation of self --- p.81 / Chapter Chapter 4: --- Research Methodology --- p.83 / Chapter 4.1 --- General Overview --- p.83 / Chapter 4.2 --- Research Methodology of this Study --- p.88 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Rationale in Selecting Qualitative Method --- p.88 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Research Design --- p.89 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- Unit of Analysis --- p.90 / Chapter 4.2.4 --- Sampling --- p.90 / Chapter 4.2.5 --- Methods of Data Collection --- p.92 / Chapter 4.2.5.1 --- Direct Observation of the Family Interviews of AN families --- p.92 / Chapter 4.2.5.2 --- Participant Observation in an AN Mutual Support Group --- p.94 / Chapter 4.2.5.3 --- Summary of the Case Study Protocol of this Study --- p.96 / Chapter 4.2.6 --- Time Frame for Data Collection --- p.96 / Chapter 4.2.7 --- Method of Analysis --- p.97 / Chapter 4.2.8 --- Validity and Reliability of this Study --- p.97 / Chapter 4.2.9 --- Summary of Chapter --- p.98 / Chapter Chapter 5: --- Results of the Study :Data Gathered from Family Interview Sessions --- p.100 / Chapter 5.1 --- Case History --- p.100 / Chapter 5.2 --- Results Gathered from Family Interview Sessions --- p.104 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Having difficulties in differentiating from the family and self- starvation as a means of asserting the personal boundariesin the families --- p.104 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Being triangulated in the parents' marital discords and self- starvation as a means of diluting their conflicts --- p.122 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- Self-sacrificing for the family interest --- p.131 / Chapter 5.2.4 --- "Being helpless and powerless in the families, self-starvation as a means of empowering the mothers in the families " --- p.134 / Chapter Chapter 6: --- Results of the Study:Data Gathered from Mutual Support Group Sessions --- p.138 / Chapter 6.1 --- Case History --- p.138 / Chapter 6.2 --- Results Gathered from Mutual Support Group sessions --- p.140 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Having difficulties in handling peer relationship --- p.140 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Having difficulties in resisting their mothers intrusiveness to their personal boundaries and self-starvation as a means of exerting their personal boundaries --- p.143 / Chapter 6.2.3 --- Being triangulated in their parents marital discords and self- starvation as a means of diluting the marital conflicts --- p.149 / Chapter 6.2.4 --- Acting for their mothers in the families --- p.149 / Chapter 6.3 --- Cross-checking of findings with group members and worker --- p.161 / Chapter Chapter 7: --- Discussions and Conclusion --- p.163 / Chapter 7.1 --- Research Findings of this Study --- p.163 / Chapter 7.2 --- Contributions of this Study --- p.173 / Chapter 7.3 --- Limitations of this Study --- p.174 / Chapter 7.4 --- Recommendation --- p.175 / Chapter 7.4.1 --- Future Research --- p.175 / Chapter 7.4.1.1 --- Proposed Theoretical Framework for Future Study --- p.175 / Chapter 7.4.1.2 --- Proposed Methodology --- p.179 / Chapter 7.4.2 --- Management of AN patients --- p.179 / Chapter 7.4.3 --- Prevention of AN --- p.181 / Appendix I: The Chinese verbatim of family interview sessions --- p.183 / Appendix II: The Chinese verbatim of mutual support group sessions --- p.234 / List of Figures: / Figure 1: Summary of the framework from western literature --- p.75 / "Figure 2: Interplay among individual, family and society " --- p.76 / Figure 3: Socio-demographic characteristics of the AN patients and their families of the family interview sessions --- p.91 / Figure 4: Socio-demographic characteristics of the AN patients and their families of the mutual support group --- p.92 / Figure 5: Summary of the proposed theoretical framework of Understanding self-starvation in Hong Kong --- p.178 / Bibliography --- p.254