Lecture 32- Depression

Question 1

What are the symptoms of major depressive disorder?

Answer 1

• low mood, loss of interest, loss of pleasure (must experience at least one of these)
• weight loss or gain
• sleep and energy difficulties
• changes in motor movements
• feeling of worthlessness
• difficulties with concentration
• thoughts of self-harm

Question 2

What is Bipolar Disorder, and what are the different types?

Answer 2

bipolar disorder is rapid cycling of emotions
Bipolar 1- extreme periods of an elevated mood, depression, and normal moods
Bipolar 2- increased elevation of their mood, but not to the same level

Question 3

What is manic episode?

Answer 3

this is when a person experiences heaps of thoughts racing at one time, can be risky and make people take risks and be impulsive

Question 4

What is a hypomanic episode?

Answer 4

lots of ideas and thoughts, less risk involved

Question 5

What is rapid cycling?

Answer 5

when an individual move through lots of different emotions at a very quick rate

Question 6

What is Beck’s theory of depression?

Answer 6

negative thoughts and beliefs about
- the self (negative thoughts about themselves)
- the world (feel like the world hares them and is out to get them)
- the future (has no goals for the future)

Question 7

What are cognitive distortions?

Answer 7

• all or nothing thinker –> need to achieve one thing or everything is going to go wrong
• blamer
• catastrophizer –> take a tiny little negative and think it is going to completely change the course of their life
• conclusion jumper
• denier
• down player of positives
• emotional reasoner –> you feel an emotion towards something, and think everyone should think the same
• fairness judger
• fortune teller
• labeler
• mind reader
• negative filterer
• personaliser
• “right” fighter
• ‘should’ stickler –> feel like you must and should be doing things
• uncertainty hater

Question 8

What dose cognitive therapy address?

Answer 8

• automatic thoughts
• attitudes and thinking stylers
• changing schema

Question 9

What is Bennett’s CBT for depression?

Answer 9

• a flexible approach
• focus on world view
• fostering therapeutic relationship
• self-disclosure

Question 10

What is the values based approach?

Answer 10

ACT- noticing the thoughts that come out of your brain but not grabbing onto them, attaching them and spending extra time and energy on them
- talk about challenges, and determine what the biggest values are in life