Psychopathology Class - 2018
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. Read more