PSY340H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Clinical Psychology, Dsm-5, Bipolar I Disorder
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Not under the name of mood disorders anymore. Divided under the category of personality disorders as unipolar disorder and bipolar disorders. He/she does not need his consent to hospitalize him: the patient can refuse treatment but will stay in custody, it has a strong genetic component. Always felt miserable but now enough to want to kill themselves. Melancholia: not a psychopathology, sub clinical disorder, does not effect everyday life but can be problematic, not for clinical psychologist but for counseling psychologist, not in dsm-5. The psychologist will than offer to try a cake again: cbt has worked really well, neurotransmitters imbalance is also behind depression. Ssris type drugs that prevent the reuptake of serotonin from the cleft and increase the time serotonin spends in the cleft has worked really well for many ppl but not all. Depression is caused by low serotonin: butryn: for norepi is also used, no drug therapy is provided to kids and adolescents.
