Introduction to Psychology Class 20 Psychological Disorders and their Treatment Myers 486 502 516 535 August 2nd 2006 Mood Disorders Unipolar Depression Bipolar Alternating depression and mania Major Depressive Disorder Depression is the common cold of all psychological disorders Situational depression is healthy Major depression Women Men 5 10 in the US Suicidal ideation and attempts Strong genetic influence Biological norepinephrine and serotonin Bipolar Disorder Mania Hyperactive wildly optimistic state Bipolar Disorder person alternates between mania and depression Manicdepressive Creativity and Bipolar Disorder Schizophrenia Split mind Disorganized thinking delusions word salad Disturbed perception hallucinations Inappropriate emotions and actions flat affect Positive and negative symptoms Subtypes of Schizophrenia Paranoid Preoccupation with delusions and hallucinations Catatonic Waxy flexibility parrot like repetition Disorganized speech or behavior flat affect inappropriate emotion Undifferentiated Many and varied symptoms Causes of Schizophrenia Dopamine over activity excess D4 receptors Brain anatomy frontal lobes thalamus Maternal flu virus mid pregnancy Strong genetic influence 1 in 10 chance for twins raised together or apart Incidence Alcohol abuse GAD Phobias OCD Mood Disorders Schizophrenia Anti social PD Men Women 24 2 10 2 5 1 5 5 5 18 3 10 2 1 Humanistic Therapies Carl Rogers client centered therapy Features Active listening Genuine empathic accepting environment Clients self actualization Behavioral Therapy Applying learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors Aversive conditioning Systematic desensitization Token economy Cognitive Therapy Aaron Beck and depression Changing self defeating thinking and behavior By learning more adaptive ways of thinking and acting Bio medical Therapies Electroconvulsive Therapy Pharmacotherapy from the hand out
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