Exam 8: Mood Disorders and Suicide

The Roman physician Hippocrates was the among first to extend the ideas on the relationship between emotional temperament (such as depression) and bodily fluids called humours first proposed by Galen.

It is common for an individual to experience an episode of mania without an accompanying depression at some point in their life.

The most enduring cognitive theory of the mood disorders was developed by Beck.

Less severe or brief episodes of mania are referred to as

Define dysthymia and cyclothymia. Provide one similarity (other than the fact that they are both mood disorders) and one difference between the two.

Up to _________ percent of people who completed suicide suffered from major depression.

Approximately _________ percent of the 70 percent of new mothers who experience depression and mood swings after childbirth is diagnosed with mood disorder with postpartum onset.

Which of the following approaches to treatments emphasizes role transitions (e.g., leaving home for university, becoming a parent)?

Along with a 4 percent infanticide rate, postpartum psychosis has a ____ percent suicide rate.

Which of the following words is NOT a type of course of depression?

With regard to bipolar disorder, DSM-5 will require the clinician to specify

Research showing that there is nothing special about five (DSM) symptoms rather than four or two weeks duration rather than three supports a dimensional model of depression.

Research findings that depressed individuals actually contribute to the occurrence of interpersonal conflict through maladaptive interpersonal behaviors supports the

A number of studies have reported a significant association between hopelessness and suicide.

Traditionally, __________ is the treatment for bipolar disorder.

Post-mortem studies of people who have committed suicide have found consistent evidence for a hypoactive __________ system.

Psychodynamic theorists no longer relate depression to unmet needs during the oral stage of development but do still emphasize the __________ relationship and evidence that ____________ confers increased risk for depression.

__________ therapy emphasizes that depression often arises as a result of disruptions in an individual's social adjustment.

In Hippocrates' time, depression was thought to result from an excess of __________ from the spleen.

Research suggests that those with the highest genetic risk for depression are more than twice as likely to develop depression in the face of stress than those at a lower genetic risk.