Exam 4: Mood Disorders and Suicide

Sociologist Emile Durkheim (1958)noted that people who experience ______,that is,who feel lost,without identity,rootless,are more likely to commit suicide.

Tricyclic antidepressants work by interfering with the reuptake of ________.

Discuss cognitive perspectives on depression,focusing on Beck's cognitive theory and the reformulated helplessness (attributional)theory.

Discuss possible biochemical factors and brain abnormalities in the cause of mood disorders.

Attributional style is one's personal way of explaining cause-and-effect relationships between events.

The interpersonal school of psychodynamic therapy derived initially from the work of ________.

Other innovative methods have also been developed for the treatment of depression,such as __________ (involving the placement of electrodes within the brain).

Persistent Depressive Disorder has a ________ severity of symptoms and a________ duration than major depressive disorder.

Initial onset of major depression is more common among older adults.

A new,promising treatment approach for depression is called repetitive _________ magnetic stimulation(rTMS)

Mood disorders in which the disturbance lies in only one direction are considered ________.

Findings have shown that cyclothymia and bipolar disorder may have common etiological factors.

Both biological and psychological factors appear to be involved in the development of mood disorders.

Cyclothymic disorder is characterized by the occurrence of ________ episodes.

Which of the following is NOT one of the 10 cognitive distortions related to depression described by Burns?

Lithium is ________ of bipolar disorder.

The essential feature of bipolar I disorder is the occurrence of one or more ________ episodes.

Neisha's therapist helps her deal with her current relationships rather than helping her with insight into her unconscious internal conflicts of childhood.Her therapist is using __________.

The suicide of a friend can have a contagion effect on teenagers.