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Mood Disorders Flashcards

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What are moods?

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Pervasive qualities of an individual’s emotional experience

-depressed mood, anxious mood, elated mood

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What do people with depressive or bipolar disorders experience?

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Disturbances in mood that are unusually severe or prolonged and that impair their ability to function in meeting their normal responsibilities

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What is unipolar depression?

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Pertaining to a single-pole or direction

Only experience depression

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What is bipolar depression?

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Characterized by opposites

States of mania and depression

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What is major depressive disorder?

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Severe depressive disorder characterized by the occurence of major depressive episodes in the the absence of a history of manic episodes

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What is the prevalence of MDD?

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11%

1/20 people can be diagnosed at any given time

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What are the features of MDD?

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Depressed mood
Lack of interest or pleasure in usual activities
Lack of motivation or energy 
Changes in appetite or sleep patterns 
Weight changes
Psychomotor agitation
Feelings of worthlessness
Diminished ability to think or concentrate 
Recurrent thoughts of death
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Why do clinically depressed people go untreated?

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Because they see it as a sign of weakness

They should be able to handle the problem themselves

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What are the symptoms of depression in children?

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Hopelessness
Cognitive errors
Negative attributions
Low perceived competence or self-efficacy
Low self-esteem
Episodes of sadness, crying apathy
Insomnia, fatigue, poor appetite
May refuse to attend school
Express fear of their parents dying
May have suicidal thoughts or attempts
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Is childhood depression a risk factor?

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Yes, 50-70% of children who are depressed from 8-13 have a recurrence later in life

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What is seasonal affective disorder?

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A major depressive disorder that occurs seasonally

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What are the features of SAD?

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Fatigue
Excessive sleep
Craving for carbs
Weight gain

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When do SAD symptoms tend to stop?

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Tends to lift in the spring

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Who is more affected by SAD?

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Younger adults and women are the most affected

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Why might SAD happen?

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Seasonal changes in light affects body rhythms

CNS might have deficiencies in transmission of serotonin

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What type of treatment may be effective against SAD?

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Phototherapy

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What is MDD with peripartum onset?

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Major depressive disorder that occurs during pregnancy or just after birth

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How long does postpartum last?

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May persist for months of even a year or more

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What are the features of postpartum?

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Disturbances in appetite and sleep
Low self-esteem
Difficulties concentrating

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What are the risk factors for MDD?

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Age
Socioeconomic status
Marital status
Women
Ethnicity
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Why are women more likely to experience MDD?

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More likely to encounter physical and sexual abuse, single parenthood, sexism

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What is a persistent depressive disorder?

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Chronic type of depression lasting at least two years

-can be chronic major depression or chronic but mild dysthymia

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What is dysthymia?

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Feel down most of the time but not as severely depressed as those with MDD

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What is the prevalence of dysthymia?

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3-6%

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What are bipolar disorders?

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Fluctuations in mood in both directions that exceed the usual ups and downs of everyday life

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What is bipolar 1 disorder?

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Characterized by manic episodes

Cycles of elated and depressed mood states alternate with intervening periods of normal mood

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What are manic episodes?

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Periods of unrealistically heightened euphoria, extreme restlessness, and excessive activity characterized by disorganized behaviour and impaired judgement

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How long do manic episodes last?

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A few weeks to several months

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What do manic episodes usually end in?

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Major depressive episodes

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What are the features of bipolar 1 mania?

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Increased energy or activity
Inflated self-esteem or grandiosity 
Decreased need for sleep
Distractibility 
Argumentative
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What is pressured speech?

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Outpouring of speech in which words seem to surge urgently for expression

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What is a rapid flight of ideas?

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Rapid speech and changes of topic

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How many people who experience manic episodes eventually experience a recurrence?

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90%

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What is rapid cycling?

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The individual experiences two or more full cycles of mania and depression within a year without any intervening normal periods

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What is bipolar 2 disorder?

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Characterized by periods of major depressive episodes and hypomanic episodes

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What is hypomania?

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A milder form of mania

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What are the features of bipolar 2 hypomania?

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Inflated sense of self-esteem, feel unusually charged with energy, restless and irritable
May be able to work long hours with little fatigue or need for sleep

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How common are bipolar disorders?

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Relatively uncommon

0.87% for bipolar 1 and 0.57% for bipolar 2

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Who experiences bipolar?

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Men and women at an equal rate

Typical age of onset is in the 20s

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What is cyclothymic disorder?

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Characterized by a chronic patter of mild mood swings between depression and hypomania
Not severe enough to be considered a bipolar disorder

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When does cyclothymic disorder typically begin?

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Usually begins in late adolescence or early adulthood

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How long does cyclothymic disorder last?

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May persist for years

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What are the risk factors for relapsing back into depression?

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A greater number of previous episodes of depression
A higher depression level at the entry point of treatment
A family history of depression
Poor physical health
Higher level of dissatisfaction with their major life roles
Definitive episodes of clinical depression in late childhood or early adolescence

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Stressful events and major depressive episodes have a:

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Causal association

45
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How does depression cause stress?

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The symptoms may be stressful

Depression can lead to sources of stress like divorce or loss of employment

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What is the relationship between social support and depression?

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The availability of social support is associated with quicker recoveries and better outcomes in cases of major depression

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Who is more likely to overcome their depression?

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People who are better able to solve their problems in daily life

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What is mourning?

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Normal feelings or expressions of grief following a loss

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What does the psychodynamic perspective of depression emphasize?

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The role of loss in depression

50
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What is pathological mourning?

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Fosters lingering depression

Causes ambivalent feelings toward the person who has departed or whose departure is feared

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What is the self-focusing model?

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Considers how people allocate their attentional processes after a loss
Depressed people experience a period of intense self-examination

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How does the learning perspective explain depression?

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Depression may result when a person’s behaviour receives too little reinforcement from the environment

53
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What does lack of reinforcement do?

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Sap motivation and induce feelings of depression

54
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What does Lewinsohn’s model think alleviates depression?

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Participating in rewarding activities and goal-oriented behaviours

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What is the interactional theory?

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The interactions between depressed individuals and other people may help explain the former group’s shortfall in positive reinforcement
Based on the concept of reciprocal interaction

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What is the cognitive triad of depression?

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Depression derives from the adoption of negative views of oneself, the world, and the future

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What are cognitive schemas?

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Negative concepts of the self and the world as mental templates

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What are cognitive distortions?

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Errors in thinking

59
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What is All or nothing thinking?

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Seeing events in black and white

No gray area

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What is Overgeneralization?

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Believing that if a negative event occurs, it is likely to occur again in similar situations in the future

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What is a mental filter?

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Focusing only on negative details of events, thereby rejecting the positive features of one’s experiences

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What is disqualifying the positive?

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The tendency to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by neutralizing or denying your accomplishments

63
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What is jumping to conclusions?

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Forming a negative interpretation of events, despite a lack of evidence

64
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What is magnification and minimization?

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Magnification, or catastrophizing, refers to the tendency to make mountains out of molehills
Minimization is when one minimizes or underestimates one’s good points

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What is emotional reasoning?

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Basing reasoning on emotions

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What are should statements?

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Creating personal imperatives or self-commandments

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What are labelling and mislabelling?

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Explaining behaviour by attaching negative labels to oneself and others

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What is personalization?

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The tendency to assume you are responsible for other people’s problems and behaviour

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What are automatic thoughts?

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Thoughts that seem to pop into one’s mind

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What is learned helplessness?

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People learn to view themselves as helpless to control the reinforcements in their environments or to change their lives for the better

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What is the attributional style?

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Personal style for explaining cause-and-effect relationships between events

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What is an internal attribution?

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We may blame ourselves

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What is an external attribution?

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We may blame our circumstances

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What is a stable attribution?

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We may see bad experiences as typical events

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What is an unstable attribution?

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We may see things as isolated events

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What is a global attribution?

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We may see bad experiences as evidence of broader problems

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What is a specific attribution?

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We may see bad experiences as evidence of precise and limited shortcomings

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What are internal factors?

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Beliefs that failures reflect their personal inadequacies, rather than external factors or beliefs that failures are caused by environmental factors

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What are global factors?

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Beliefs that failures reflect sweeping flaws in personality, rather specific factors or beliefs that failures reflect limited areas of functioning

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What are stable factors?

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Beliefs that failures reflect fixed personality factors, rather unstable factors or beliefs that the factors leading to failures are changeable

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How does traditional psychoanalysis treat depression?

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Aims to help people who become depressed understand their ambivalent feelings toward important people in their lives whom they have lost or whose loss what threatened
Take years to uncover and deal with unconscious conflicts

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What is interpersonal psychotherapy?

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A brief, psychodynamic form of therapy that focuses on helping people resolve interpersonal problems

83
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How does modifying behaviour treat depression?

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Focus on helping depressed patients develop more effective social or interpersonal skills and increasing their participation in pleasurable or rewarding activities

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What is behavioural activation?

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Encourages patients to increase their frequency of rewarding or enjoyable activities

85
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How does cognitive therapy treat depression?

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Clients learn to recognize and change their dysfunctional thinking patterns

86
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What is cognitive-behavioural therapy?

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Effective treatment in childhood and adolescence

Usually involves a coping-skills model in which children or adolescents receive social-skills training

87
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What are some classes of antidepressant drugs?

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TCAs
MAO inhibitors
SSRIs
SNRIs

88
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What is lithium used for?

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Effective in stabilizing moods in people with bipolar disorder and reducing recurrent episodes of mani and depression

89
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What is electroconvulsive therapy?

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A safe and effective treatment for severe depression

90
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What is repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation?

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A noninvasive way of stimulating particular regions of the brain
Used to treat depression, brain regions that are thought to play a role in depression are repeatedly stimulated
Left prefrontal cortex

91
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What are suicide risk factors?

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10% of men and 13% of women had contemplated suicide at some point in their lives
2% of men and 6% of women have attempted suicide
25% of deaths among 15 to 24 year olds and 16% among 25 to 44 year olds
Rates are higher in middle-aged and elderly men

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How is gender a risk factor for suicide?

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Women are more likely to attempt

Boys are more likely to succeed

93
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How is age a risk factor for suicide?

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Youth in late adolescence or early adulthood are at greater risk than younger adolescents

94
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How is ethnicity a risk factor for suicide?

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First nations suicide rate is 5-7x higher

95
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How is previous suicidal behaviour a risk factor for suicide?

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A quarter of adolescents that attempt suicide are repeaters

96
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How are family problems a risk factor for suicide?

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Family problems are present among about 75% of adolescent suicide attempters

97
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How are stressful life events a risk factor for suicide?

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Many suicides among young people are directly preceded by stressful or traumatic events

98
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How is substance abuse a risk factor for suicide?

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Addiction in the adolescent’s family or by the adolescent

99
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How is social contagion a risk factor for suicide?

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Adolescent suicides sometimes occur in clusters

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What are indications of suicide?

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Evidence points to the role of hopelessness as an important predictor or perhaps contributor to suicidal thinking and behaviour
90% of the people who died by suicide had left clear clues, such as disposing of their possessions
May suddenly try to sort out their affairs

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How can we prevent suicide?

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Draw the person out
Be sympathetic
Suggest that means other than suicide can be discovered to work out their problems
Ask how the person expects to commit suicide
Propose that the person accompany you to see a professional right now
Don’t degrade them
Don’t press the suicidal person to contact specific people such as parents or a spouse

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