🗓 Unit 12 - Psychological Disorders

Summary

Learning Objectives

• Describe the historical and modern approaches to mental health treatment
• Explain how people with psychological disorders have been treated throughout the ages
• Discuss the ways in which mental health services are delivered today
• Understand the problems inherent in defining the concept of psychological disorder
• Describe what is meant by harmful dysfunction
• Identify the formal criteria that thoughts, feelings, and behaviors must meet to be considered abnormal and, thus, symptomatic of a psychological disorder

Prepare for Today

Readings

• Mental Health Treatment: Past and Present

• Types of Treatment

• What Are Psychological Disorders?

• Diagnosing and Classifying Psychological Disorders

• Perspectives on Psychological Disorders

• Anxiety Disorders

• Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders

• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• Mood and Related Disorders

• Schizophrenia

• Dissociative Disorders

• Disorders in Childhood

• Personality Disorders

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Lecture Slides

Takeaways

• Psychological disorders are conditions characterized by abnormal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. But they must certain threshold requirements for diagnosis including level, severity, and length of dysfunction

• There is a difference between individual or isolated behaviors and diagnosible disorders.

Today’s Assignment

Psychological Disorders

• Watch: You will select two of the following depictions of mental disorders in media.
• Practice: Download the disorders worksheet and answer the questions using what you learned in the reading and lesson.
• Submit: Go to Canvas and upload your worksheet to the Unit 12 Activity.

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Recommended links for additional learning

Title	Description	Link
Pathology of addiction	Short video describing the pathology of addiction	Video 1
Brains and Addiction	Another video providing a good overview of the science of addiction	Video
Addiction as Adaptation	Another perspective on addiction that focuses on the social and emotional components of addiction	Video