Case Analysis and Interventions

Pyschopathology

PREDISPOSING FACTOR PRECIPITATING FACTOR

PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT
Age (17 years
old)
Friends who take Low socioeconomic
advantage to him status
financially Crisis

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

Limbic System Frontal Temporal Basal

Cortex Lobe Ganglia Serotonin
Dopamine Norepinephrine

Biological
drives (eat, Irritability
Persever Movement
sex)
ation of changes Increased: Increased:
speech Increased:
Loss of - Insomnia -Hypomania
Anger
social Decreased: -Mania
Emotions Decreased:
-Lack of -Restlessness
(Aggressiven awareness -Loss of
motivation,
ess, Bliss) -confusion alertness and
-Insomnia,
-irritability ability to
-mood
Decreased: focus/concentr
swings,
ate
-inability -Confusion -Depression
to focus
restlessness Lack of
and
-Depression arousal and
concentrate
-Insomnia interest
-inability
Exhaustion
to connect -anger
with others

BIPOLAR DISORDER TYPE I

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