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| Major Depressive Disorder |
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| Involves acute, but time-limited, periods of depressive symptoms which are called major depressive episodes. |
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| More chronic, but less sever depression than those with a Major Depressive Disorder |
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| Characteristics of a Major Depressive Disorder |
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-dysphoric mood of an intensity that far outweighs the ordinary disappointments and occasional sad emotions of everyday life.
-Lethargic/listlessness or the opposite effect
-Eating disturbances
-Sleep pattern disruptions
-Intensely negative self view
-Symptoms arise gradually over the course of several days/weeks
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People's whose depressive episodes have __________ lose interest in most activities or find it difficult to react to events in their lives that would customarily bring pleasure.
For Example, people who would normally like the morning find it gloomy. |
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| People whose episodes show a ___________ develop a depressive episode at about the same time each year, usually for about 2 months during the fall or winter, but then they return to normal functioning. |
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| Prevalence and Cours of Major Depressive Disorder |
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| Relatively common disorder. Relatively younger groups are beginning to be affected. It takes many possible courses, many will have recurring episodes. |
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| Involves an intense and very disruptive experience of extreme elation, or euphoria, possibly alternating with major depressive episodes. |
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| A full-blown expression of extreme symptoms involving abnormally heightened levels of thinking, behavior, and emotionality that cause impairment in social or occupational functioning. |
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| In some instances, an individual with bipolar disorder might experience a _______ which is characterized by a period lasting a week in which the symptoms of both a manic episode and a major depressive episode occur together in rapidly alternating fashion. |
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| Involves alternations between dysphoria and briefer, less intense, and less disruptive states of euphoria. |
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| Less disruptive states of euphoria than manic episodes |
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| Describes a clinical course in which the individual experiences one or more manic episodes with the possibility, though not the necessity, of having experienced one or more major depressive episodes. |
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| The individual has had one or more major depressive episodes and at least one hypomanic episode. (Never experienced a full-blown manic episode) |
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| Biological Factors of Mood Disorders |
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| These disorders run in families. Gender also appears to play a major role. |
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| Psychodynamic Theories of Mood Disorders |
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| People who weren't loved as a child are depressed as adults, or go on to form overly dependent upon their spouse type of relationships that can cause overwhelming sadness when they end. |
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| Behaviorally Theories of Mood Disorders |
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Symptoms of Depression are caused by a lack of positive enforcement.
Example: Girl goes to pub but doesn't meet people. Socializing doesn't give her a reward, so she doesn't keep doing it. |
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| Cognitively Based Theories of Mood Disorders |
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| Propose that serious mood changes can result from events in our lives or from out perceptions of events. |
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| A negative view of the self, the world, and the future. (Beck) Once activated this depressive view perpetuates itself in a cyclical nature. |
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| Errors that depressed people make in the way they draw conclusions from their experiences. |
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| Sociocultural and interpersonal Perspectives of Mood Disorders |
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| Some depressed people have lifelong difficulties in their interactions with other people. |
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| Biological Treatment of Mood Disorders |
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| Antidepressant medication is the most common form of somatic treatment for people who are depressed, lithium for people with bipolar disorder. ECT and Light Therapy are also used. |
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| Psychological Treatment of Mood Disorders |
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| Therapy - Cognitive restructuring, behavior change, cognitive behavioral therapy. |
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| Sociocultural and Interpersonal Intervention Mood Disorders |
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| Often in the treatment of people with mood disorders, clinicians find it extremely valuable to involve people who are close to the client. |
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| How committed a person is to dying |
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| The dangerousness of the person's intended method of dying |
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| A disorder with a range of symptoms involving disturbances in content of thought, form of thought, perception, affect, sense of self, motivation, behavior, and interpersonal functioning. |
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| The first name for schizophrenia (degeneration of brain at a relatively young age) |
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| Association, Affect, Ambivalence, Autism |
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| Hearing voices, that comment on one's actions and believing that an outside agent is instring thoughts into one's mind. (not just schizophrenia) |
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| 6 month period marked disturbance such as delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, disturbed behavior, and negative symptoms (speechlessness, lack of initiative) |
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| A period before to the active phase during which the indiviual shows progressive deterioration in social and interpersonal functiong. Characterized by several maladaptive behaviors such as social withdraal, inability to work productively, eccentricity, poor grooming, inapproptiate emotionality, peculiar thought/speech, unusual beliefs, odd perceptual experiences, decreased energy and initiative. |
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| Continuing indications of disturbance similar to the behaviors of the prodromal phase after the active phase. |
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| Positive Symptoms of Schizophrenia |
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| Exaggerations or distortions of normal thoughts, feelings, and behavior. |
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| Cognitive deficits that may occur prior to full blown schizophrenia (C) cognitive deficits (A) affective (SI) Social isolation (S) School failure. |
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| Symptoms of Schizophrenia |
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| Disturbance of thought content; Delusions, Disturbances in Perception: Hallucinations, Disturbance of Thinking, Language, Communication: Disorganized Speech, Disturbed Behavior, Negative Symptoms, Social and Occupational Dysfunction |
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| Disturbance of thought content. Deeply entrenched false beliefs. |
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| Disturbance in perception. False perceptions involving one of the five senses. |
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| Disturbance of thinking, language, and communication. |
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| Moving in odd ways, visual behavioral symptoms that would strike anyone as odd. |
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| Symptoms that involve functioning below the level of behavior characterized as normal, the most common being flattening, alogia, and avolition. |
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| An individual seems unresponsive with relatively motionless body language and facial reactions and minimal eye contact. |
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| A loss of words or notable lack of spontaneity or responsiveness in conversation. |
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| Symptom that involves a lack of initiative and willingness to act. |
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| A loss of interest in or ability to experience pleasure from activities that most people find appealing. |
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| Type of schizophrenia where the prominent motor symptom in the individual is bizarre motor behaviors. |
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| Characterized by a combination of symptoms, including disorganized speech, disturbed behavior, and flat or inappropriate affect. |
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| Schizophrenia characterized by preoccupations with one or more bizarre delusions or have auditory hallucinations related to a theme of being persecuted or harassed, but without disorganized speech or disturbed behavior. |
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| Used when a person shows a complex of schizophrenic symptoms |
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| People who have been diagnosed as having schizophrenia might no longer have prominent psychotic symptoms but might still show some lingering signs of the disorder. |
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| A disorder characterized by a sudden onset of psychotic symptoms that lasts less than a month. Symptoms are often reactive. |
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| Lasts longer than a brief psychotic disorder, but not as long as schizophrenia |
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| Applies to people who experience either a major depressive episode, a manic episode, or a mixed episode at the same time that they meet the diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia. |
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| People with this disorder have a single striking psychotic symptom - an organized system of non-bizarre false belief. They can be convincing and coherent. |
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| Shared Psychotic Disorder |
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| One or more pople develop a delusional system as a result of a close relationship with a psychotic person who is delusional. |
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