Delve into a comprehensive psychopathology lecture covering a wide range of mental health topics. Explore opinions on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), epidemiology, etiology, and risk factors in mental health. Examine the relationship between mental health disorders and violence, compare text therapy to traditional face-to-face therapy, and understand the differences between DSM subtypes and specifiers. Investigate severe and persistent mental illness, personality disorders, social anxiety disorder, illness anxiety disorder, and somatic symptom disorder. Learn about various types of trauma, including acute, chronic, and complex, as well as the distinctions between acute stress disorder, PTSD, and complex PTSD. Discover the concepts of flashbacks, secondary traumatic stress, and codependency. Analyze oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, and antisocial personality disorder. Debunk myths about PTSD and panic attacks, and explore the highly sensitive person construct. Gain insights into obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, purely obsessional OCD, adjustment disorder, and alexithymia. Examine specific OCD-related phenomena such as counting rituals, existential obsessions, and hit-and-run obsessions. Finally, investigate the risk factors for intermittent explosive disorder.
Overview
Syllabus
Opinions about the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM).
Epidemiology, Etiology, and Risk Factors in Mental Health.
What is the Relationship between Mental Health Disorders and Violence?.
Text Therapy vs. Traditional Face-to-Face Therapy.
What is the Difference Between DSM Subtypes & Specifiers?.
What is Severe and Persistent Mental Illness?.
Personality Traits Diagnostic Model of Personality Disorders in the DSM (Dimensional Model).
What is Social Anxiety Disorder?.
The Nature of Stigma with Social Anxiety Disorder.
What is Illness Anxiety Disorder?.
What is Somatic Symptom Disorder?.
What is the Difference Between Acute, Chronic, and Complex Trauma?.
What is the Difference Between Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder?.
What is the Difference Between PTSD and Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)?.
What is the Difference Between Borderline Personality Disorder and Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)?.
What are Flashbacks? (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder [PTSD] - Intrusion Symptom).
What is Secondary Traumatic Stress?.
What is Codependency?.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder, & Antisocial Personality Disorder.
Five Myths about PTSD.
What is the Highly Sensitive Person Construct? (Sensory Processing Sensitivity).
Eight Myths about Panic Attacks.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder?.
What is Purely Obsessional ("Pure O") Obsessive Compulsive Disorder? (Primarily Cognitive OCD).
What is Adjustment Disorder?.
What is Alexithymia? (Inability to Express or Recognize Emotions).
What are Counting Rituals in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?.
What is an Existential Obsession (Philosophical Obsession) in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?.
What are Hit and Run Obsessions in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder? (MVA OCD).
What are the Risk Factors for Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED)?.
Taught by
Dr. Todd Grande
