CLP 3144 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Suicide Prevention, Behaviour Therapy, Crisis Intervention

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Clinical and Health Psychology
• Course: CLP 3144
• Professor: natalieweldon

Document Summary

Symptoms of depressions: depressed mood out of proportion to any cause, anhedonia, changes in appetite, sleep, and activity levels, psychomotor retardation or agitation, losing touch with reality, experiencing delusions, and hallucinations. Course of depressive disorders: long-lasting, recurrent problem for some people, costly for both the individual and the society, people tend to recover with treatment. Elevated, expansive, or irritable mood for more than one week and at least 3 additional symptoms: More talkative than usual or pressure to keep talking. Increase in goal-directed activity (either socially, at work or school, or sexually) or psychomotor agitation (i. e. purposeless non-goal-directed activity) Excessive involvement in activities that have a high potential for painful consequences (engaging in unrestrained buying sprees, sexual indiscretions, or foolish business investments) Flight of ideas on subjective experience that thoughts are racing. Bipolar ii: characterized by severe depression and hypomania. Mania with less severe symptoms, not impairing functioning.