PYC 4802 PSYCOPATHOLOGY ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE ANSWERS LATEST VERSION 2024

PYC 4802 PSYCOPATHOLOGY
ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE ANSWERS LATEST
VERSION 2024
Mood - ANS ✔✔✔a sustained emotional state that
lasts over a period of time, unlike emotions which
are more spontaneous and reactive to a particular
stimulus or event
Depressive disorder - ANS ✔✔✔According to the
DSM 5,it is a mental disorder where an individual
feels depressed and outwardly displays
signs/symptoms of depression for a significant
duration of time.
Depressive disorders are identified - ANS ✔✔✔by
the presence of sad, empty, or irritable mood,
accompanied by somatic and cognitive changes that
significantly affect the individual's capacity to
function
Major Depressive Disorder - ANS ✔✔✔Five (or
more) of the following symptoms have been present
during the same 2-week period and represent a
change from previous functioning; at least one of the
symptoms is either (1) depressed mood or (2) loss of
interest or pleasure.
MDD 1 - ANS ✔✔✔Depressed mood most of the
day, nearly every day, as indicated by either
subjective report (e.g., feels sad or empty) or
observation made by others (e.g., appears tearful).
Note: In children and adolescents, can be irritable
mood
MDD 2 - ANS ✔✔✔Markedly diminished interest or
pleasure in all, or almost all, activities most of the
day, nearly every day (as indicated by either
subjective account or observation made by others).
MDD 3 - ANS ✔✔✔Significant weight loss when not
dieting or weight gain (e.g., a change of more than
5% of body weight in a month), or decrease or
increase in appetite nearly every day.
(Note: In children, consider failure to make expected
weight gain
MDD4 - ANS ✔✔✔Insomnia or hypersomnia nearly
every day
MDD5 - ANS ✔✔✔Psychomotor agitation or
retardation nearly every day (observable by others,
not merely subjective feelings of restlessness or
being slowed down).
MDD6 - ANS ✔✔✔Fatigue or loss of energy nearly
every day
MDD7 - ANS ✔✔✔Feelings of worthlessness or
excessive or inappropriate guilt (which may be
delusional) nearly every day (not merely selfreproach or guilt about being sick).
MDD8 - ANS ✔✔✔Diminished ability to think or
concentrate, or indecisiveness, nearly every day
(either by subjective account or as observed by
others).
MDD9 - ANS ✔✔✔Recurrent thoughts of death (not
just fear of dying), recurrent suicidal ideation without
a specific plan, or a suicide attempt or a specific
plan for committing suicide
MDD.B - ANS ✔✔✔The symptoms cause clinically
significant distress or impairment in social,
occupational, or other important areas of functioning
symptoms of cyclothymic disorder - ANS
✔✔✔period of two years
Mood Disorder - ANS ✔✔✔a disorder where a
peson feels depressed and/or elated, and outwardly
show signs (affect) of depression and/or mania for a
significant period of time which is severe enough to
impair normal functioning , and which occurs in the
absence of clearly identifiable stresssor or trigger
Two extreme poles in mood disorders - ANS
✔✔✔Dysphoria and Euphoria
Dysphoria - ANS ✔✔✔Major Depressive Episode
Moderate depression
Sever depression
Euphoria - ANS ✔✔✔manic episode, hypomania
Major Depressive symptoms - ANS ✔✔✔present for
a two week period
Dsythymic disorder - ANS ✔✔✔must be present for
two years, symptoms lesser than Major depressive
mania symptoms - ANS ✔✔✔period of one week