Abnormal Psychology Lectures: Recent Episodes
Dana C. Leighton
Disorders of childhood & adolescence: Externalizing disorders (ADHD & ODD); Internalizing disorders (Tic disorder).
Covers Part 3 of An Unquiet Mind. Also schizophrenia - history, symptoms, & demographics.
Covers anxiety disorders: generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, phobias, obsessive-compulsive 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.