PSYCH-230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitor, Tricyclic Antidepressant, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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Focus on helping depressed patients develop more effective social or interpersonal skills and increasing their participation in pleasurable or rewarding activities. Evidence shows that behavioural techniques can produce substantial benefits in treating depression in both adults and adolescents. Behavioural activation approach based on operant conditioning & reinforcement models. Produced higher rates of remission in treating severely depressed patients in one. Exercise and health: if exercise could be purchased in a pill, it would be the single most widely prescribed and beneficial medicine in the nation. robert h. butler. Distorted thinking (cognitive distortions) plays a key role in the development of depression. Depressed people typically focus on how they are feeling rather than on the thoughts that may underlie their feeling states. That is, they usually pay more attention to how bad they feel than to the thoughts that may trigger or maintain their depressed moods.
