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what is attribution-helplessness theory about

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experience something that feels beyond your control

  • bad things happening and cannot do anything about them
  • an out of control event
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what is helplessness caused by

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due to internal or external causes

internal: feel like it is your fault so brain makes it your fault
external: blaming things on external causes, can be a coping mechanism

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explain global vs. specific and stable vs. unstable and what they are

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they are all perspectives of problems

global = problem is widespread (not just failure on test but failure in life)
specific = isolated to one problem/event
stable = constant (failure radiates through whole life)
unstable = will not linger or happen overtime
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when does helplessness come the most

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when attribution is global and stable

-can be internal or external causes

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what is the cognitive triad of depression

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negative view of self, environment/world and the future

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what is the self in cognitive triad of depression

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perception of self is worthless, you have deficiencies and cannot achieve happiness

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what is the environment in cognitive triad of depression

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think of environment having excessive demands, environment is not fair to them

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difference between ego dystonic and ego syntonic

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dystonic: person feels like behaviors and moods are inconsistent with who they are (depressed, but know they should not be)
syntonic: behaviors and moods make sense to someone, behaviors fit with perceptions of reality (its everyone elses fault)`

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what is the future in cognitive triad of depression

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the future will suck, “even if i take another test i will fail that too”

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what is plot correceting

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trying to switch perspectives of life and the world, working to make them positive

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what are some more cognitive factors that affect cognitive triad of depression (that add fuel to the fire)

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self-evaluation, self-talk, having irrational ideas and beliefs, being pessimistic, over-generalizing, catastrophizing

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what is self-evaluation

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how we view our failures and imperfections, how we view our deficits
-learning what our deficits are

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what is all or nothing thinking (dichotomous thought)

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error in thinking, either positive or negative thinking and no in between
-decisions are complex so breathing them down to right or wrong is not accurate or reasonable

ex. trolley car dilemma

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suicide world stats?

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  • one of the leading causes of death in the world (odd because we are usually survival based)
  • 1 million people a year globally, 44,000 in US
  • there are 650,000 to over a million unsuccessful attempts a year
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what is an example that shows its hard to tell if it is a suicide or not

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ex. car accident

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what is a parasuicide

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unsuccessful attempt at suicide

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why is suicide not talked about

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it is looked down upon so when people do kill themselves it is not talked about

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explain “suicide contagion”

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family member commits suicide, how do you get kids to think this is not a good thing? especially when people memorialize and bury those who die
-suicide can become attractive to people (eulogizing people-saying good things about person), may lead someone to believe that suicide makes everything better

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is suicide in DSM

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no, but it is included in psychopathology

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can you call it suicide if a kid kills themselves

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a debate, do they understand the finality of death? kids do not know what they are doing

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what are some insurance policies about suicide

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if you kill yourself kids will not get your money

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what do people want to put in the DSM

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suicidal behavior disorder, want to expanding definition of suicide

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what are death seekers

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conscious effort to end life

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what are death intitators

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engaging in behaviors to end lives but already think life is ending

25
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death initiators vs. euthanization

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don’t call it euthanization because people do not end others lives for the sake they do find a treatment for whatever is going on

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what are death ignorers

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don’t think that death is permanent (has religious routes)

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what are death darers

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ambivalent about death and careless about life (doing stunts, drugs, etc)

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what is self injury

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non-suicidal self injury, in DSM, afflicting wounds on selves without trying to kill self

  • has to happen 5 times in one year to qualify for diagnosis
  • similar pattern to OCD (compulsion- act reduces anxiety, but it comes back- loss of control)
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how often does self injury occur

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17% of people engage in these behaviors at least once

30
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why is studying suicide hard

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suicide committers are dead, so cannot interview (cannot go back in time)

  • cannot interview families either because trauma
  • hindsight bias is 20/20 only because it is untestable
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why is there a stigma with suicide

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because it doesn’t make sense to us

-we know it should be hard to inflict pain on self (painful and hard, have to be really sad to do it)

32
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what is passive suicide and differences between men and women

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a lot of suicide is passive, people will take pills and die after pills work
-women 3x more likely to commit, but men more likely to be successful because they use more active methods (guns, weapons, etc)

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explain studies of unsuccessful suicides

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we can study these, when we do case studies, average number of attempts is 12

34
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what are some mediators of suicide rates

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where you are from, religion (some say suicide inhibits you from going to Heaven), gender/sex, social environment and marital status

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explain relationship status as a mediator of suicide

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1/2 of people interviewed who had attempted said they had no friends or were divorced and never married

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explain racial differences in US over suicide

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whites are more likely to kill selves than other races, but not higher than Native Americans (high unemployment, alcohol and drug abuse, and access to weapons)
-Puerto Ricans have higher rate than other Hispanics

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what can trigger a suicide

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connected to mental illness and perspective (history of suicidal thoughts/plans)
-occurs with current event or condition in life (but the person has been suffering for a really long time before it, event precipitates it but does not justify it, the event is the last straw)

38
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what group is at extremely high rates for suicide

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veterans are at high risk for suicide

  • combat stress is extremely traumatic
  • killing others should not be comfortable
39
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what long term stressors are risk factors

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natural disaster, ongoing unemployment, serious illnesses, loved one with serious illness
-politics and social structure can also incite waves of suicide
(dictatorship, economic crashes, etc)

40
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what can domestic violence do

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lead to suicide

  • people can be stuck in these situations, also at risk for homicide
  • anytime our psyche is trapped it can lead to suicide
41
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explain stats about drugs and suicide

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25% of people who kill selves have drugs in system

-it is hard to kill self and alcohol disinhibits you

42
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explain too much depression and suicide

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people with depression sometimes feel so low they cannot kill themselves, so anti-depressants can make them kill selves
-anti-depressants increase suicide, switched to anti-psychotics to rid of this risk

43
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what mental disorders have increased suicide risk

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depression, alcoholism, schizophrenia

44
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explain how celebrities can affect suicide

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when there is a high profile person who commits suicide there is a spike in suicides

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