Depression
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- Created on: 05-11-13 17:32
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- Depression
- Biological
- Therapies
- A deliberate intervention designed to treat mental disorders
- Either a complete cure or make the symptoms more manageable
- Arise from the medical model of abnormal behaviour
- Treatments
- ECT
- Very effective in alleviating severe depression
- Used as a last resort
- Can have severe side affects
- Drugs (chemo)
- Direct effect on the nervous system
- Balance out levels of neurotransmi-tters
- Consists of…
- Tricyclics
- Blocks the reduction of noradrenaline and serotonin
- MAOIs
- Decreases enzyme that prevents 'happiness'
- SSRIs
- Makes more serotonin available
- Tricyclics
- Direct effect on the nervous system
- ECT
- Explanations
- Genes
- Concordance rate
- Monozygotic twins
- One Egg
- Dizygotic twins
- Two Eggs
- Monozygotic twins
- Concordance rate
- Biochemical Factors
- Female Hormones
- Post natal
- PMS
- Menopausal
- Melatonin
- SAD
- Light Therapy
- SAD
- Amine hypothesis
- Female Hormones
- Neuroanatom-ical Factors
- Research Support
- MRIs
- CAT scans
- Difficult to distinguish cause and effect
- Research Support
- Genes
- Clinical characteristics
- Depressed mood
- Loss of interest in fun activities
- Decreased energy
- Loss of confidence
- Unreasonable feelings of guilt
- Recurrent thoughts of death/suicide
- Sleep disturbance
- Appetite disturbance
- Diathesis-stress explanation
- Interaction between biological and environmental factors
- Individuals have a genetic vulnerability for depression in presence of triggers
- Predictors of adult depression...
- Negative early life experiences
- Woman are twice as likely as men to suffer from depression
- Cultural Factors
- Ethnic minority people are more likely to suffer from depression
- Interaction between biological and environmental factors
- Therapies
- Psychological
- Therapies
- Behavioural
- Helps with coping mechanisms
- CBT
- Replaces irrational thinking with positive, rational ways of thinking
- Exercise
- Stimulates endorphins- prevents long term depression
- Endorphins- 'happy hormone'
- Stimulates endorphins- prevents long term depression
- Behavioural
- Explanations
- Psychodynamic
- Linked to loss of a loved one or a symbolic loss
- Behavioural
- Learned behaviours
- Operant conditioning
- Classical Conditioning
- Learned behaviours
- Cognitive
- Faulty thinking patterns
- Hopelessness theory
- Becks cognitive triad
- View of self
- View of world
- View of the future
- Faulty thinking patterns
- Psychodynamic
- Therapies
- Biological
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