This mood disorder is characterized by persistent sadness and loss of interest in activities.
What is Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)?
This period after childbirth is a major risk factor for depression.
What is the postpartum period?
This is always the nurse's highest priority.
What is safety (suicide assessment)?
These are the first-line medications for depression.
What are SSRIs?
This therapeutic communication technique is often more effective than talking with severely depressed patients.
What is therapeutic silence?
This chronic, less severe form of depression was formerly called dysthymia.
What is Persistent Depressive Disorder (PDD)?
Name two social risk factors for depression.
Name one commonly used depression screening tool.
This life-threatening condition can occur from excessive serotonin.
What is serotonin syndrome?
The highest priority nursing diagnosis for depression is this.
What is Risk for Suicide?
MDD symptoms must be present for at least this long.
What is 2 weeks?
According to the stress-diathesis model, depression develops from biological vulnerability combined with this.
What is stress (environmental/life events)?
Patients with depression often speak in this type of voice.
What is monotone speech?
These antidepressants require avoidance of tyramine-containing foods.
What are MAOIs?
Name one indication for ECT.
PDD symptoms must persist for at least this long in adults.
What is 2 years?
Name two chronic health conditions or situations that increase the risk of depression.
Chronic illness, chronic pain, hospitalization, disabling medical conditions.
What is monotone speech?
What is psychomotor retardation?
These antidepressants commonly cause anticholinergic side effects and cardiotoxicity.
What are tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)?
What are Beck's Cognitive Triad's three negative beliefs?
This symptom describes the inability to experience pleasure.
What is anhedonia?
Experiencing these types of events early in life can increase the risk of depression later in adulthood.
What are early trauma or adverse childhood experiences?
List the four components of suicide assessment.
Name two atypical antidepressants.
Name all three neurotransmitters associated with depression.