PSY 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Venlafaxine, Explanatory Style, Psy

• School: Tunxis Community College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 245
• Professor: lauretano

Document Summary

Correct the errors- get people to think right. Stressful life events: context, meaning, timing. Effects of stress: poorer treatment response, delayed remission, trigger for depressive episode or relapse. Reciprocal-gene environment model: stress triggers depression, depressed individuals create or seek out stressful situations. Strongest effects for males- men who get depressed, tend to withdraw and cause problems in relationships. Problems in the marriage cause depression for women. Prevalence: females > males (across every culture studied) Perceptions of uncontrollability- men have more control than women. Socialization- men are socialized to be macho, where it is okay for women. Many negative side effects- gain weight, sexual dysfunction, insomnia, nausea. Suicide or violence- findings show people taking prozac more likely to commit suicide (correlation. Questionable efficacy- german study says it works, but no one has replicated those results. Maybe only works for severe major or persistent depressive disorder. Higher % of positive findings published than negative.