Abnormal psychology in a changing world

1. Introduction and methods of research -- How do we define abnormal behavior? -- Historical perspectives -- The Demonological model -- Origins of the medical model: in "ill humor" -- Medieval times -- Witchcraft -- Asylums -- Reform Movement and moral therapy -- The Community Mental Health Movement: the exodus from state hospitals -- Contemporary perspectives -- Description, explanation, prediction, and control: objectives of science -- Scientific method -- Ethics in research -- Naturalistic-observation -- Correlational method -- Experimental method -- Epidemiological studies -- Kinship studies -- Case studies -- 2. Contemporary perspectives on abnormal behavior -- Biological perspective -- The nervous system -- Controversies : is it all in the genes? -- Psychological perspective -- Psychodynamic models -- Learning models -- Humanistic models -- Cognitive models -- Sociocultural perspective -- Ethnicity and mental health -- Biopsychosocial perspective -- Diathesis-stress model -- 3. Classification and assessment of abnormal behavior -- The DSM and models of abnormal behavior -- Standards of assessment -- Reliability -- Validity -- Controversies: should interviewers be replaced by computers? -- Neuropsychological assessment -- Cognitive assessment -- Physiological measurement -- Sociocultural and ethnic factors in assessment -- 4. Methods of treatment -- Types of helping professionals -- Psychotherapy -- Psychodynamic therapy -- Behavior therapy -- Humanistic therapy -- Cognitive therapy -- Eclectic therapy -- Group, family, and couple therapy -- Controversies: online therapy: a new therapeutic tool or Pandora's box? -- Biomedical therapies -- Drug therapy -- Ethnic differences in response to psychotropic medication -- Electroconvulsive therapy -- Psychosurgery -- Hospitalization and community-based care -- Community mental health center -- Ethnic group differences in use of mental health services -- Racial stereotyping and the Mental Health System -- Evaluation of deinstitutionalization -- 5. Stress, psychological factors, and health -- Adjustment disorders -- Stress and illness -- Stress and the endocrine system -- Stress and the immune system -- Terrorism-related trauma -- General adaptation syndrome -- Warning signs of trauma-related stress -- Stress and life changes -- Controversies: psychological first-aid following trauma: does it help? -- Acculturative stress: making it in America -- The dissociative experiences scale -- Psychological factors that moderate stress -- The life orientation test -- Psychological factors and physical discorders -- Headaches -- Cardiovascular disease -- Psychological methods for lowering arousal -- Asthma -- Cancer -- Emotions and the heart -- Are you a Type A? -- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

6. Anxiety disorders -- Historical perspectives -- Panic disorder -- Phobic disorders -- Types of phobias -- Obsessive-compulsive disorder -- Generalized anxiety disorder -- Traumatic stress disorders -- Controversies: EMDR: fad or find? -- Ethnic differences in anxiety disorders -- 7. Dissociative and somatoform disorders -- Dissociative identity disorder -- Dissociative amnesia -- Dissociative fugue -- Depersonalization disorder -- Culture-bound dissociative syndromes --The dissociative experiences scale -- Controversies: are recovered memories credible? -- Münchausen syndrome -- Conversion disorder -- Hypochondriasis -- Body dysmorphic disorder -- Pain disorder -- Somatization disorder -- Koro and Dhat syndromes: Far Eastern somatoform disorders? -- 8. Mood disorders and suicide -- Major depressive disorder -- Controversies: why are more women depressed? -- Dysthymic disorder -- Bipolar disorder -- Cyclothymic disorder -- Theoretical perspectives -- Stress and mood disorders -- Psychodynamic theories -- Humanistic theories -- Learning theories -- Cognitive theories -- Biological factors -- Treatment -- Psychodynamic approaches -- Behavioral approaches -- Cognitive approaches -- Psychological treatment of other mood disorders -- Biological approaches -- Clinical practice guidelines for depression -- Suicide -- Magnetic stimulation therapy for depression -- Who commits suicide? -- Why do people commit suicide? -- Predicting suicide -- Suicide prevention -- 9. Substance abuse and dependence -- Classification of substance -related disorders -- Substance abuse and dependence -- Addiction, physiological dependence, and psychological dependence -- Racial and ethnic differences in substance dependence -- Pathways to drug dependence -- Drugs of abuse -- Depressants -- Are you hooked? -- Binge drinking, a dangerous pastime -- Stimulants -- Hallucinogens -- Theoretical perspectives -- Biological -- Learning -- Cognitive -- Psychodynamic -- Sociocultural -- Treatment of substance abuse and dependence -- Biological approaches -- Culturally sensitive treatment of alcoholism -- Nonprofessional support groups -- Residential approaches -- Psychodynamic approaches -- Behavioral approaches -- Relapse-prevention training -- Controversies: controlled drinking controversy -- 10. Eating disorders, obesity, and sleep disorders -- Anorexia Nervosa -- Bulimia Nervosa -- Causes of anorexia and bulimia -- Controversies: should Barbie be banned? -- Fear of fat scale -- Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia -- Binge-eating disorder -- Obesity: a national epidemic -- Are you obese? -- What causes obesity? -- Ethnic and socioeconomic differences in obesity -- Facing the challenge of obesity -- Dyssomnias -- Parasomnias -- Treatment -- To sleep, perchance to dream

11. Disorders involving gender and sexuality -- Gender identity disorder -- Homophobia: social prejudice or personal psychopathology? -- Sexual dysfunctions -- Types -- Treatment -- Paraphilias -- Types -- Controversies: "Cybersex addiction": new psychological disorder? -- Treatment -- Rape -- Types -- Cultural myths that create a climate that supports rape -- 12. Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders -- Course of development -- Prevalence -- diagnostic features -- Perceptual disturbances -- Subtypes of Schizophrenia -- Controversies: is mental illness a myth? -- Diathesis-stress model -- Treatment -- Other forms of psychosis -- Brief psychotic disorder -- Schizophreniform disorder -- Delusional disorder -- The love delusion -- Schizophrenia-spectrum disorders -- 13. Personality disorders -- Types -- Personality disorders characterized by odd or eccentric behavior -- Personality disorders characterized by dramatic, emotional, or erratic behavior -- Did Samson have antisocial personality disorder? -- Personality disorders characterized by anxious or fearful behavior -- Problems with the classification of personality disorders -- Psychodynamic perspectives -- Controversies: are personality disorders sexist? -- Learning perspectives -- Family perspectives -- Biological perspectives -- "In Cold Blood": peering into the minds of psychopathic murderers -- Sociocultural perspectives --Treatment -- Psychodynamic approaches -- Behavioral approaches -- Biological approaches -- 14. Abnormal behavior in childhood and adolescence -- Normal and abnormal behavior in childhood and adolescence -- Cultural beliefs about what is normal and abnormal -- Prevalence of mental health problems in children and adolescents -- Risk factors for childhood disorders -- Pervasive developmental disorders -- Autism -- Mental retardation -- Causes -- Intervention -- Learning disorders -- Types -- The Savant syndrome -- Understanding and treating learning disorders -- Communication disorders -- Attention-deficit and disruptive behavior disorders -- Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder -- Conduct disorder -- Oppositional defiant disorder -- Childhood anxiety and depression -- Separation anxiety disorder -- Childhood depression -- Understanding and treating childhood anxiety disorders -- Understanding and treating childhood depression -- Controversies: are we overmedicating our kids? -- Suicide in children and adolescents -- Elimination disorders -- Enuresis -- Encopresis -- 15. Cognitive disorders and disorders related to aging -- Dementia -- Delirium -- Amnestic disorders -- Psychological disorders related to aging -- Anxiety disorders and aging -- Depression and aging -- Sleep problems and aging -- Dementia of the Alzheimer's type -- Vascular dementia -- Examining your attitudes toward aging -- Dementia due to Pick's disease -- Dementia due to Parkinson's disease -- Dementia due to Huntington's disease -- Dementia due to HIV disease -- Dementia due to Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease -- Controversies: genetic testing: should people at risk be tested? -- Dementia due to head trauma -- Neurosyphilis -- 16. Abnormal psychology and the law -- Psychiatric commitment and patient's rights -- Predicting dangerousness -- Controversies: what should we do about the "wild man of West 96th Street?" -- Patients' rights -- The duty to warn -- The insanity defense -- Legal bases of the insanity defense -- Determining the length of criminal commitment -- Perspectives on the insanity defense -- Competency to stand trial

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