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Bipolar II
Disorder marked by symptoms of major depression, interchanged with hypomania
Hypomania
-An elevated state of extreme agitation, increased energy and excitement without psychotic thoughts
-The related depression is marked by impairment in perceptual ties to reality.
Cyclothymic Disorder
-Condition marked by mild depression and hypomania
-Ties to reality not impaired
Biological Theory (Depression)
-Genetic predisposition
-Monamine hypothesis imbalance of serotonin, epinephrine, norephinerine, and dopamine causes depression
Cognitive Behavioral
-Beck's Cognitive Triad
-Assumption that depression results from negative thoughts about self, situation,and future
Beck's Four Phased Approach
-Increased activities to elevate mood
-Challenge automatic thoughts
-Identify negative ideas and biases
-Change primary attitudes
Cognitive Restructuring
Technique wherein clients are challenged to alter self-defeating beliefs
Learned Helplessness
Seligman's theory that depression is learned as a result of persistent punishment, without relief
ECT
Electroconvulsive Therapy is application of 60-140 volts to the brain
Lithium/ Depakote
Mood stabilizer, anti-bipolar drugs
Antidepressant
Psychotropic drugs that elevate mood
Suicide
Intentionally terminating one's life
Parasuicide
Unsuccessful attempts to end one's life
Suicide Patterns
-Less likely among religious people and married people
-Women attempt suicide 3x more than men
-Men commit suicide 3x more than women
-European American are 2x as likely to commit suicide than African, Asian, or Hispanic Americans
Contributing Factors to Suicide
-Serious or terminal illness
-Abusive environment (bullied, inmate in camps, abused spouse or child)
-Drug use and mental disorders
-Occupational Stress (Psychiatry, psychologist, police, dentist, lawyer, farmers, unskilled laborers)
Shneidman's 4 Types of Suicides
-Death Seeker
-Death Ignorers
-Death Initiator
-Death Darer
Death Seeker
Individual with clear intent and desire, often fatal outcome
Death Ignorers
View suicide as a transition to another place of existence
Death Initiators
Act to speed up death, believed to be already in process
Death Darer
Attempts suicide as act of manipulating others, gaining attention or causing guilt
Sub-intentional Death
-Suicide results from mismanagement of medications
-Individual may be terminally ill
-When individuals play indirect, covert, partial, or unconscious roles in their own deaths
Durkheim's View
-Suicide is a social phenomenon that reflects the quality of the individual's relationships with others
-Those with inadequate interpersonal relations are more likely to commit suicide
Durkheim's 3 Relationships to Suicide
Egoistic
Anomic
Altruistic
Egoistic Suicide
Failure to connect with others this isolation and loneliness leads to suicide
Anomic Suicide
Failure to form individual identity apart from group results in suicide
Altruistic Suicide
Choosing to end one's life as a sacrifice fro another or others
Eating Disorders
Group of conditions marked by patters of disturbance related to food with primary and secondary symptoms
Eating Disorders Example
Anorexia Nervosa
Bulimia Nervosa
Anorexia Nervosa
-Condition marked by refusal to maintain minimal "normal" body weight for age and height
-Distortion of body image, fear of weight gain, amenorrhea
-Potentially hypotension, low body temp, disturbance in metabolism, slowed HR
-Concern with control purging, excessive exercise, self induced vomiting, may be fatal
Anorexia Nervosa (Restricting Type)
Persistent patterns of refusing food or limiting food intake
Anorexia Nervosa (Binge-Purging Type)
Forced vomiting, abuse of laxatives, diuretics, enemas, etc
Bulimia Nervosa
-Marked by eating binges or high caloric foods, followed compensatory behaviors, e.g., guilt, shame, depression, enemas, abuse of laxatives and diuretics, fasting, self induced vomiting, etc
-Symptoms expected to occur at least twice weekly for three months
-Recurrent episodes of binge eating
Binge Eating Disorder
-Patterns of binging or over-eating without compensatory behavior
-No vomiting, very fat people
Muscle Dysmorphobia
-Experienced by males, a condition marked by distorted perception of body with continued bulking
-Obsessive consumption of nutritious drinks, protein, etc
Feeding Disorders
Pica Disorder
Rumination Disorder
Pica Disorder
Condition marked by eating of non-nutritive substances like dirt, drywall, etc
Rumination Disorder
-A feeding disorder of infancy marked by repeated patterns of regurgitating half-digested foods to be re-consumed
-Patterns of eating/feeding must be developmentally inappropriate.