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1 Clinical Psychology

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

3 Clinical psychology Assessment and treatment of people with psychological disorders

4 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…?*****

5 Dichotomy or Continuum?

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

7 Prevalence & causes 44% of adult population

8 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!

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

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

11 Mood disorders Major depressive disorder = depression Bipolar disorder Genetic vulnerability

12 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 **

13 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


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