Exam 8: Mood Disorders and Suicide

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According to Leenaars (2000), the first telephone centre in Canada for the prevention of suicide was in:

Gerard is severely depressed. In addition to depressive symptoms, he also experiences delusions. What type of treatment will be the most successful for him?

In the evaluation of relapse prevention in bipolar disorder, Lam (2006) reported the following common features EXCEPT:

A Finnish study (Sourander et al., 2009) examined predictive associations between early child psychopathology and later completed suicides. The findings indicate that _____ of _____ who completed suicide and/or were hospitalized for attempts in adolescence or early adulthood screened positive on parent or teacher scales of psychopathology at age _____.

In a large study of postpartum depression conducted at the University of Western Ontario by Gotlib, Whiffen, and associates, what percentage of pregnant women were depressed during pregnancy?

Which of the following best describes hypomania?

Janet seeks out the help of a psychologist as she has been experiencing disturbances in emotion that include sadness and irritability. What category of disorders will most likely contain her diagnosis?

The concordance rate for bipolar disorder is around 85%. This statistic indicates that:

All of the following have been shown to be effective in treating depression EXCEPT:

According to a health service delivery study in British Columbia (Bilsker, Gordner, & Jones, 2007), ____ of people with depression are treated by their primary care physician only.

Using the Self-Critical Perfectionism Scale (SCPS), Wheeler et al. (2010) reported that two groups showed the highest levels of self-critical perfectionism relative to other clinical groups and a control group. What did these two groups suffer from?

According to Aaron Beck, the negative triad consists of a negative view of:

Discuss the treatment options and prognosis for individuals with bipolar disorder.

Beck's (2008) deconstruction of depression model comprises the following elements EXCEPT:

Three large-scale American studies revealed the lifetime prevalence rates for depression ranged from _____ to _____.

Richard Edmunds from Calgary killed himself at the age of 27) When he wrote "I cannot stand the pain anymore," he was illustrating Schneidman's concept of:

A cognitive bias that involves making a sweeping judgment about the self on the basis of a single event is known as:

Attempted suicide is particularly common among people with:

In people diagnosed with moderate to severe depression, Fournier et al. (2008) determined that a 16-week treatment of CT showed less therapeutic results (44%) relative to antidepressant groups (66%). What did the 12-month follow-up rates revealed?