Clinical Psychology

roadmap Abnormal behavior Diagnosis Etiology Clinical Syndromes Personality Disorders Treatments Drug action

Clinical psychology Assessment and treatment of people with psychological disorders

Deviant Maladaptive Causes personal distress Need all three? What is abnormal? Deviant Maladaptive Causes personal distress Need all three? Have someone go out into hallway and try, report back***ride wring way in elevator, etc…?*****

Dichotomy or Continuum?

Prevalence & causes 44% of adult population CAUSES: Biology-genes, NTs Prenatal insult Learning-conditioning, observation Cognition-judgment of perceived threat (anxiety) Personality-Neuroticism Stress!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Prevalence & causes 44% of adult population

Classification scheme for mental disorders Many changes on the way! Diagnosis: DSM 4 to DSM-5 Classification scheme for mental disorders Many changes on the way!

Anxiety disorders Apprehension & anxiety GAD Phobic disorder OCD Obsessions = thoughts Compulsions = rituals PTSD

Anxiety disorders PTSD Brian Mancini's Battle with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - In Deep Shift

Mood disorders Major depressive disorder = depression Bipolar disorder Genetic vulnerability

SCHIZOPHRENIA Class of disorders (paranoid, catatonic, etc.) Symptoms: Delusions & irrational thought Deterioration of adaptive behavior Hallucinations Disturbed emotions Four Patients with Schizophrenia 130, Eden Express, 152 etc **

Personality disorders Borderline-unstable self-image, mood, interpersonal relationships Antisocial-chronically violating rights of others, non-accepting of social norms, inability to form attachments Narcissistic-grandiosely self-important, lacking empathy Poorly defined, much overlap