Affect and Mood Related to School Aged …

Introductory Packet

Affect and Mood Related to School Aged Youth

(Revised 2015)

*The Center is co-directed by Howard Adelman and Linda Taylor and operates under the auspice of the School Mental Health Project, Dept. of Psychology, UCLA, Box 951563, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563 (310) 825-3634 E-mail: Ltaylor@ucla.edu Website: . Permission to reproduce this document is granted.

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Affect and Mood

Overview Page

I What Do We Mean When We Talk About Affect and Mood? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 A. Defining Affect and Mood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 B. The Broad Continuum of Affect and Mood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

II Understanding the Causes of Problems Related to Affect and Mood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 A. Keeping the Environment in Perspective as a Cause of Commonly Identified Psychosocial Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 B. Environmental Situations and Potentially Stressful Events and Common Behavioral Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 C. Overview of Protective and Risk Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

III Promoting Healthy Development and Preventing Mood and Affect Problems . . . . . . .21 A. The Prevention of Mental Disorders in School-Aged Children: State of the Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 B. Annotated "Lists" of Empirically Supported / Evidence Based Interventions for School-Aged Children and Adolescents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 C. The Prevention of Depression in Youth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 D. About Positive Psychology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

IV Responding to the First Signs of Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31 A. Internalizing Disorders Overlooked in Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32 B. Loneliness in Young Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33 C. Depression in School: A Student's Trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 D. Adolescent Depression: Helping Depressed Teens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 E. Children and Depression: Accommodations to Reduce Affect & Mood Problems . . . .40

V Interventions for Serious Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

A. Depression 1. Understanding the Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 2. Assessing the Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 3. Treating the Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 4. Suicide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 5. Affect Regulation and Addictive Aspects of Repetitive Self-Injury . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

B. Bipolar Disorder 1. Child and Adolescent Bipolar Disorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 2. Bipolar Disorder in Teens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 3. Sample Goals for Individualized Educational Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 4. Educator's Guide to Receiving Bipolar Students After Hospitalization . . . . . . . . . 64

C. Anger 1. Controlling Anger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 2. Helping Young Children Deal with Anger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 3. Helping the Child Who is Expressing Anger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 4. Helping Your Children Navigate the Teen Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 5. Model Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

VI References and Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

A. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

B. Agencies and Online Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

C. Center Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Affect and Mood Problems

Overview

Affect and mood related to school aged youth covers a broad range of concerns. This Introductory Packet provides frameworks related to affect and mood for

? defining and describing, ? understanding causes of

problems, ? Promoting health and positive

development, ? Responding to the first signs of

problems, ? interventions for serious

problems. Resources are provided for more in depth information.

I. What Do We Mean When We Talk About Affect and Mood?

A. Defining Affect and Mood B. The Broad Continuum of Affect and Mood

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