Week six Flashcards
1
Q
Perceptual Styles
Field independent
A
- not influenced by people around them;
- do their own thing;
- will not do well in a group;
- not interested in learning from others b/c they don’t need it;
- shouldn’t be sent to AA, NA, Group therapy, etc.;
- require individual therapy and teaching of social skills
2
Q
Perceptual Styles
Field dependent
A
- dependent on people around them;
- This matters to therapy because there are two chunks of therapy- group and individual therapy;
- Field independent people will not do well in group therapy;
- likely to do well with teamwork and group activities
3
Q
Perceptual Styles
Self-efficacy
A
- belief that you can achieve w/e you must achieve in the moment;
- highest correlate in recovery of mental health;
- therapy should have a spark to it –
- optimism, hopefulness, inspirational
4
Q
Perceptual Styles
Learned Helplessness
A
- undercut and change this;
5
Q
Stress Sources
Internally generated
A
- stress generated by the self onto the self
6
Q
Externally generated
A
- stress generated by an outside source
- very prevalent
7
Q
Depressive and Bipolar Disorders (used to be Mood)
Genetics and temperament are big predictors of depression
A
- it runs in families.
- Even though it runs in families (genetics causes nothing by itself), it requires an environmental precipitator.
- Something will kindle depression-stressors, death, tragedies, major health problems, and crisis.
- Want to prevent those phenomenon from kindling depression that becomes self-sustained.
8
Q
Depressive and Bipolar Disorders (used to be Mood)
Trend
A
- Women twice as likely
- Disorders are on the increase
- Onset age getting younger
9
Q
Depressive and Bipolar Disorders (used to be Mood)
Prevalence
A
- Mood Disorders during lifetime – 30% of population
- Clinical depression treated – 25% (**75% suffering depression get no treatment)
- Hospitalized for depression 1:50
- Successful suicides: 1:100
- 80% of all suicides are linked to depression – 20% of suicides linked to a variety of things like other psychotic disorders.
- Depression blinds people from the obvious.
- # 1 cause of premature death is depression by 2020.
- Without treatment, 10% or so will end their lives.
- 60% have moderate depression, 40% will have severe depression.
- Depression spontaneously remits.
- Mild versions of depression last 4-6 months.
10
Q
Depressive and Bipolar Disorders (used to be Mood)
Highest Risk
A
- Married women who are full time homemakers with young children and who are at the low socioeconomic level
11
Q
Depressive and Bipolar Disorders (used to be Mood)
Duration
A
- Depression lasts about 1 year
- Relapse occurs in half of the people
- Mild symptoms can last 2 years
12
Q
Mood Episodes
A
- Not diagnosable by itself (in order to diagnose, must have mood episodes)
- The basis of a mood diagnosis
13
Q
Mood Episodes
Types of Mood Episodes
A
- Major Depressive Episode
- Manic Episode
- Mixed Episode
- Hypomanic Episode
14
Q
Mood Episodes
Major Depressive Episode
A
- Depressed mood – most of the day, nearly every day OR Loss of interest in pleasure (must have one of these for this diagnosis)
- Weight gain or loss (appetite: loss - without the intention; gain – eating excessively)
- Insomnia (broken fragmented sleep) or hypersomnia (can’t get up after sleeping)
- Psychomotor agitation (edgy, mindless fidgeting) or retardation (everything is slowed down)
- Fatigue (lack of energy when you do nothing)
- Feeling worthless and guilty nearly everyday
- Indecision and inability to concentrate
- Recurrent thoughts of death or suicide
- Bereavement
- Need to have 5 (INCLUDING one from the first) of 9 for at least two weeks, most of the day, nearly every day.
15
Q
Mood Episodes
In order to have a diagnosis of major depressive disorder you must…
A
- have had at least one Major Depressive Episode.
