PSY 240 Study Guide - Bipolar Disorder, Impulsivity, Prolonged Grief Disorder
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Native americans: increasing rates, adolescents, elderly, gender differences, indices, attempts, ideations, men are more successful but women are catching up (guns, past conceptions, types of suicide (durkheim, 1897) Altruistic- our family approves of (family honor) Egoistic- based on disintegration of social support (family/friends gone) Anomic- because of a major personal catastrophe. Genetic/family history- predisposed depression or bipolar disorder. Personality traits- impulsivity: more immediate risk factors: Psychiatric diagnosis for another disorder: protective factors: Treatment of psychiatric/personality disorder: precipitating factors: Correlation with depressed people who have poor executive functions- do not problem solve well: paper and pencil test. Linehan"s reasons for living inventory: ability to predict suicide is poor, treatment, suicide/crisis intervention call centers, no-suicide contract-promise to not kill themselves without first talking to therapist, hospitalization-very expensive. Suicide watch: problem solving therapy, cbt, make an assessment of how likely they are to commit suicide, high: Will tell you ways to kill yourself online.
