PSYC 3220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Major Depressive Episode, Mood Disorder, Depression In Childhood And Adolescence

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3220
• Professor: C.Miller

Document Summary

**depressive as a mood is different from depression as a disorder. Intense sadness, loneliness, worry, rumination; impair in functioning and/or significant distress. Symptoms for a year for children, 2 years for adults. Changes of course development in child for having symptoms for that long. Symptoms also include sleeping changes, low energy or fatigue, low self-esteem or poor concept, concentration or attention problems, and hopelessness must have 2 of these symptoms to be diagnosed. Children with this disorder are distracted by their own thoughts (can"t concentrate on what"s happening on the outside because of what"s happening on the inside) 5 or more symptoms, one of which must be irritability or depressive episodes (at least 2 weeks for children) Always has acute symptoms with obvious point of onset; without it, it is not major depressive episode. In children it is rare to have psychotic features with depressive episodes (but not true for adults)