PSY E245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Etiology, Psych, Dissociative Disorder
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Activity scheduling: anhedonia loss of interest in what was once pleasurable, have to stat re-scheduling activities into life, tests and challenges negative cognitions. Thought records: identify and test negative thinking pattern. Behavioural experiments: test the person"s assumptions. How to regularize sleep and daily routines. How to monitor their mood and identify triggers. Importance of complying to medication intentional taking of life. Men are more likely to complete, women are more likely to attempt. Social factors rootless, lack of belonging top cause of suicide is untreated mental disorder. Biological factors suicide runs in families, low levels of 5-ht. Psychache feeling of unendurable psychological pain and frustration. Dissociative disorders characterized by severe maladaptive disruptions or alterations of identity, memory, and consciousness that are experienced as being beyond one"s control. Dissociation lack of normal integration of thoughts, feelings, and experiences in consciousness and memory. Inability to recall important personal information in the absence of organic.
