PSYC 3390 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Mood Stabilizer, Learned Helplessness, Crisis Intervention

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3390
• Professor: Margaret Lumley

Document Summary

Two key moods involved with mood disorders: mania(intense and unrealistic feelings of excitement and euphoria) depression(feelings of extraordinary sadness and dejection) Can have symptoms of mania and depression at the same time (mixed episode cases) Unipolar person experiences only depressive episodes. Bipolar- experience both manic and depressive episodes. Severity- the number of dysfunctions experienced and the relative degree of impairment 2. Duration- whether the disorder is acute, chronic, intermittent. Most common form of md is major depression (unipolar) Other kind of md is manic episode in which a person shows markedly elevated, euphoric mood often interrupted by outbursts of intense irritability/violence. * see textbook page 231 for dsm criteria for major depressive episode and manic episode. Rates of unipolar depression higher for women than man. The grieving process is not a mood disorder. It is a psychological process one goes thru following death of a loved one (more difficult for men).