Learning Objectives

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Define the characteristics of mood disorders.
Explain the prevalence of mood disorders.
Describe unipolar mood disorders.
Differentiate depressions that are not mood disorders from those that are.
Identify the mild to moderate depressive disorders.
Describe criteria for diagnosing major depressive disorder and the subtypes.
Discuss biological and psychosocial causal factors in unipolar and bipolar mood disorders.
Describe various types of bipolar disorders.
Explain how various sociocultural factors affect unipolar and bipolar disorders.
Assess treatments and outcomes of mood disorders.
Explain prevalence rates of suicide among people with mood disorders.
Describe who is likely to attempt suicide and who is likely to complete suicide.
Describe the various motives for why someone takes their own life.
Explain the sociocultural and biological variables that affect suicide.
Evaluate the ethical issues involved in the right to die.

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