Psychology - Depression

Depression

candidates will be expected to

• develop knowledge and understanding of depression
• apply knowledge and understanding of models, classification and diagnosis to depression

Candidates should be familiar with the following

• clinical charactersitics of depression
• issues surrounding the classification and diagnosis of depression - including reliability and validity
• biological explanations of depression - genetics; biochemistry, for example
• psychological explanations of depression - behavioural; cognitive; psychodynamic; socio-cultural, for example
• biological therapies for depression, including their evaluation in terms of appropriateness and effectiveness
• psychological therapies for depression, behavioural; psychodynamic; and cognitive-behavioural, for example including their evaluation in terms of appropriateness and effectiveness