PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Thurston High School Shooting, Chronic Poverty, Fluoxetine

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2AP3
• Professor: Geoffrey Hall

Document Summary

In may of 1998, kip kinkel, age 15, shot and killed his parents and the next day went to school and opened fire on fellow students. Kip, a paranoid schizophrenic: 3rd grade: special education problems in school and, 4th grade: learning disability, 7th grade: mail order book on bomb making, 8th grade: Start of gun collection and involvement in the legal system (rock throwing incident) started on prozac. Starts counselling: no evidence of though disorder, diagnosed with depression . Returns home and kills his parents students and injures 25: may 21 "98: kip goes to school armed with 3 guns and a hunting knife and kills 2. Particular atypical antipsychotics used to treat bipolar and schizophrenia. Some atypical antipsychotics act as mood stabilizers. Side effects: restlessness, sedation, insomnia, dizziness, weight gain, risk of. Indicated for use in teens but can be prescribed off-label to children diabetes. 5. 4 to 35. 5% of youth aged 4-18 have problems.