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1.0 General Characteristics of Mood Disorders

1.1 Define the nature of an episode as used to diagnose a mood disorder.

2.0 Depressive Disorders

2.1 Indicate the diagnostic characteristics of a major depressive episode, types of depression, epidemiology, and course of major depressive disorder.

2.2 Enumerate the criteria used to diagnose dysthymic disorder.

3.0 Disorders Involving Alternations in Mood

3.1 Describe the symptoms of a manic episode, the types of bipolar disorder, epidemiology, and course of bipolar disorder.

3.2 Indicate the diagnostic criteria for cyclothymic disorder.

4.0 Theories and Treatments of Mood Disorders

4.1 Explain the biological perspective, including approaches to theory and treatment that focus on genetics and biochemical abnormalities.

4.2 Evaluate the psychodynamic perspective and its application to understanding and treating mood disorders.

4.3 Describe the behavioral perspective, and how it is used to treat and understand mood disorders.

4.4 Outline the cognitive-behavioral perspective of the nature and treatment of mood disorders.

4.5 Clarify the nature of the sociocultural and interpersonal perspectives of mood disorders, and indicate how they are used in treatment.

5.0 Suicide

5.1 Describe the characteristics of people who commit suicide.

5.2 Compare and contrast the biological, psychological, and sociocultural perspectives of why people commit suicide.

5.3 Outline the nature of the assessment and treatment of suicidality.

6.0 Mood Disorders: The Biopsychosocial Perspective

6.1 Contrast and integrate the current approaches to mood disorders.

7.0 Chapter Boxes

7.1 Discuss the case of Kay Redfield Jamison.







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