Abnormal Psychology Lectures

Eating disorders - anorexia nervosa & bulimia nervosa...

Disorders of childhood & adolescence: Externalizing disorders (ADHD & ODD); Internalizing disorders (Tic disorder)....

Schizophrenia - diagnosis, etiology, treatment....

Discussion of Part 4 of An Unquiet Mind....

Covers Part 3 of An Unquiet Mind. Also schizophrenia - history, symptoms, & demographics....

Covers PTSD, dissociative, and somatoform disorders....

Covers anxiety disorders: generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder....

Covers treatment of mood disorders...

Mood Disorders introduction; symptoms; etiology of depression and bipolar disorder....

Assessment: interviews, self-report, neurological. Diagnosis: DSM and the medical model for mental illness; ICD....

Covers historical understanding of abnormal behavior and mental illness, from 1100 to present. Also contemporary perspectives on understanding the causes of mental illness....

Explanations for abnormal behavior: Supernatural, Somatogenic, Psychogenic. Historical conceptions for abnormality before the Renaissance period....

Course policies and procedures....