Exam 4: Mood Disorders and Suicide

Applied behavioural analysis is also know as ___________.

Annette is encouraged to note when and where she has negative thoughts and how she feels at the time.Her therapist notes that Annette has a habit of resorting to selective abstraction.Annette's tendency is a type of __________.

Discuss the use of "deep brain stimulation" in the treatment of depression.

MAO inhibitors interfere with the action of ________.

The most common type of diagnosable mood disorder is ________.

The therapist who uses the behavioural approach would believe that depressive behaviours can be ___________.

According to the self-focusing model,depression occurs when an individual pursues love objects or goals it would be more adaptive to surrender.

In Seligman's research,animals who developed learned helplessness showed behaviours that were similar to those of people with ________.

In the ________ type of bipolar disorder,the individual experiences two or more full cycles of mania and depression within a year without intervening normal periods.

Each of the following is characteristic of manic episodes EXCEPT ________.

It is widely believed that SSRIs and SNRIs are associated with a worsening of _______ thoughts and behaviours in children and adolescents.

Electroconvulsive therapy is used to treat ________ in people who fail to respond to medication.

Prolonged grief or bereavement can develop into major depressive disorder.

For people with bipolar disorder,the first episode is always mania.

Exposure to toxins and infectious agents in the environment have been cited as possible reasons for the rise in rates of depression.

Discuss postpartum depression and explain how it is different than "maternity blues."

Brent participates in applied behavioural analysis group therapy.He will likely be involved in all of the following EXCEPT __________.

Which of the following drugs (or drug groups)is NOT generally used to treat depression?

There is no clear research evidence to support Freud's notion that self-directed anger is a cause of depression.

ECT often leads to greater levels of depression than existed before it was administered.