Case Analysis and Interventions

Pyschopathology

PREDISPOSING FACTOR PRECIPITATING FACTOR

ENVIRONMENTAL
ENVIRONMENTAL
PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL
 Low socioeconomic
 Age (17 years old)
ENVIRONMENTAL
 status.
Low socioeconomic
 CrisisENVIRONMENTAL
 Friends who take  Lowstatus.
socioeconomic
 Stressful and
advantage to him Crisis
status
financially  Traumatic
Stressful Events
 Crisis and
(Rape and Death
Traumatic Eventsof
Loved and
(Rape one)Death of
 Lovedof
Loss one)
Employment
 Loss of Employment
NEUROBIOLOGICAL
IMPAIRMENTS

NEUROSTRUCTURE NEUROCHEMICAL

Damage to the Interference with the

structure smooth transmission of
impulses from one neuron
to another

Abnormal
function Imbalanced release of
neurotransmitters

Frontal Temporal Basal

Limbic System
Cortex Lobe Ganglia Serotonin
Dopamine Norepinephrine
Biological
drives (eat, Irritability
Perseverati Movement
sex)
on of changes Increased: Increased:
speech Increased:
Loss of - Insomnia -Hypomania
social Decreased: -Mania
Emotions Anger
-Lack of -Restlessness
(Aggressiveness awareness Decreased:
motivation, -
, Bliss) -Loss of
-Insomnia, confusion alertness and
-mood swings, - ability to
-inability to irritability focus/concentrate
focus and Decreased: -Depression
concentrate
- Lack of arousal
-inability
Confusion and interest
to connect
restless Exhaustion
with others
ness
-Depression
-Insomnia

BIPOLAR DISORDER TYPE I

LEGEND:
Blue- Manifested by the patient
Red- Imbalances of the neurotransmitters
Green- MEDICAL DGX.
Affected structure/chemicals

LEGEND:
ETIOLOGICAL FACTORS Process/Leads to
Manifested by the patient
Imbalances of the neurotransmitters
MEDICAL DGX.
Affected structure/chemicals