PSYC 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Progressive Muscle Relaxation, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Psychotherapy
6 Apr 2016
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Career panel with questions on thursday (can write questions in the discussion on. On all material since last test 50 multiple choice. Even physical health is worse when the child has depressed parents. Higher rate for many things like phobias and general sicknesses. Multifinality one risk factor predicting multiple outcomes. When moms were successfully treated for their depression, the kids would get better a year later when they were revisited. Many things can add to the manifestation of depression and other disorders. Cognitive behavioral therapy is similar across all disorders. A lot more has been done with depressed adolescents than depressed children. Two main things are positive social experiences (having a friend to talk/laugh) and competency experiences. When someone is depressed, they are not experiencing that positive reinforcement from their environment. Thing that can cause a depressed spiral, they end up having fewer positive social interactions. Think of it as a scale negative interactions outweigh the positive.
