PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitor, Major Depressive Episode, Panic Attack
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Explain three positive factors that support having diagnostic categories or giving patients a diagnosis. A panic attack is a discrete period of intense fear or discomfort in which at least 4 panic symptoms (heart racing, sweating, shaking, choking, nausea, dizziness, etc ) develop abruptly and reach a peak within 10 minutes. Common phobias include fear of snakes, spiders, dogs, heights, water, blood. These phobias are likely more common due to biological preparedness or a genetic predisposition to fear certain stimuli over others. Bipolar i is one or more manic or mixed episodes, usually accompanied by. Paranoid, catatonic, disorganized, and undifferentiated: list three types of insight-oriented therapy. Anti-depressant, anti-anxiety, and anti-psychotic: list six advantages of group therapy. [any six for 1/2 mark each: efficiency, empathy, acceptance, modeling, practice, transference, universality, interaction, altruism, pressure, reality testing, describe three warning signs that signal a risk for suicide.
