PSY 338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Bipolar Ii Disorder, Major Depressive Episode, Bipolar Disorder
22 Mar 2017
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Increased risk for subsequent development of bipolar disorder and substance use disorders: adolescents with dd receive less social support than those with mdd. Intellectual and academic functioning: difficulty concentrating, loss of interest, slowness of thought and movement likely to have harmful effect on intellectual and academic functioning, results in lower test scores, poor teacher ratings, and lower levels of grade attainment. Treatment of depression: less than half the children with depression receive help for their problem (rates vary by racial/ethnic background, cbt has shown the most success in treating children and adolescents with depression. Interpersonal psychotherapy for adolescent depression (ipt-a): focuses on improving interpersonal communication; effective: psychopharmacological treatments: with exception of ssris (which have problematic side effects), meds have been less effective than cbt and ipt-a. Interpersonal psychotherapy for adolescent depression (ipt-a): focus is on depressive symptoms and social context it occurs in.
