COVID time: Temporal imaginaries and pandemic materialities.

Since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, several ways of understanding time have emerged: what we may call 'COVID time'. Based on 40 qualitative online interviews in 2022 with Australians living across the continent, this article examines how people situated themselves and COVID-19 in historical time. It further explores how material aspects, place and space (or "pandemic materialities") factored into lived experiences and temporal imaginaries.

Maps, models, and narratives: the ways people talk about depression.

Many researchers within the social sciences, medicine, and humanities have examined the ways people talk and think about depression. In their research and published literature they have attempted to determine the theoretical frameworks and appropriate language for categorizing such concepts and understandings. Drawing from mental health and broader social science scholarship, in this article we examine three approaches to developing an inclusive understanding of depression experiences: explanatory models, exploratory maps, and illness narratives.

Diverse voices, simple desires: a conceptual design for primary care to respond to depression and related disorders.

Background: The World Health Organization and the World Organization of Family Doctors have called for 'doable' and 'limited' tasks to integrate mental health into primary care. Little information is provided about tasks GPs can undertake outside of guidelines that suggest to prescribe medication and refer to specialists.

Objectives: The reorder study aimed to gather diverse patient and community perspectives to inform the development of an effective system of depression care.

Lay accounts of depression amongst Anglo-Australian residents and East African refugees.

Layperson accounts of depression are gaining increasing prominence in the health research literature. This paper considers the accounts of lay people from a cross-cultural perspective. By exploring lay concepts of distress from Anglo-Australian, Ethiopian and Somali communities in Australia, we describe commonalities and divergences in understandings of depression.