PSYC 3082 : Test2review
Document Summary
The greater the vulnerability, the more likely people are to develop ptsd: social and cultural factors play a role. 3 anxiety persists into consciousness and person converts it into physical symptoms. 4 person receives great attention and sympathy from other peoples: treatment, similar to somatization, primary attention to the trauma causing the anxiety, remove sources of secondary gain sympathetic reinforcement for the physical symptom. Double depression: features, experiences major depression and dysthymic disorder, dysthymic often develops first, associated w/ severe psychopathology, associated with a problematic future course. Bipolar 2: features, alternations between major depressive episodes and hypomanic episodes, hypomania similar to mania but less severe, avg age onset is 22 yrs but can begin in childhood, chronic, only 10-13% cases progress to full bipolar 1. Suicide: 8th leading cause of death in the us, more frequent in white and native americans, males are more successful at committing suicide than females; increase in adolescents females attempt more often than males.
