PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Tricyclic Antidepressant, Ethology, Mood Disorder

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3171
• Professor: Allison Jane Ouimet

Document Summary

Cost effectiveness --> medication is cheaper then psychotherapy. Medication first -prescribed and most prescribed recommended as first-line by many guideline panels. **increase the amount of neurotransmitters in the synapse. Someone with depression may think (i"ll never make it, i"m stupid, i"m no good; failure oriented thoughts) Leads to feelings of sadness, depression leads to behaviour (ex: netflix for 3 days and missing next midterm) Therapist: improve self-thoughts; looking for positive reinforcement/experiences when behaviour is needed, helping with ways of dealing with triggers. Impact change in one area then you should see changes in other areas. Techniques can help both behaviours and thoughts and cognitive and behavioural techniques can help both. Automatic thought records: take home and chart out when they have a negative emotion, (chart on next page) not going to bring up that much change unless you go out into the world and experience it. homework -things to do in between sessions (change is going to happen with you)