Text Box: PSY 305A Abnormal Psychology Three credit hours Spring Semester, 2007 at Houghton College Paul Young, Department of Psychology 2:15 - 3:05 a.m. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Office: Chamberlain 324 Phone: 567-9308 On Campus extension: 3080 e-mail: paul.young@houghton.edu Office hours: 9 - 9:50 a.m. MWF; 10 - 10:50 a.m. TR; or by appointment; or drop by whenever I am in my office

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Text Box: PowerPoint Slides 1. Introduction: Definitions of abnormal 2. History of psychopathology 3. Paradigms and paradigmatic thinking. What causes mental disorders? 4. Diagnosis: Systems, reliability, and validity. DSM-IV 5. Clinical assessment: Approaches and methods. 6. Research methods in psychopathology 7. Anxiety disorders: Phobias, panic disorders, GAD, OCD, and PTSD 8. Somatoform disorders: Somatization, pain, hypochondriasis and BDD 9. Dissociative disorders: Amnesia, fugue, and DID 10. Psychophysiological disorders: Psychosomatic or somatopsychic? 11. Eating disorders: Anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder 12. Mood disorders: Depressive and bipolar disorders 13. Suicide 14. Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders 15. Substance-related disorders: Drug abuse and dependence 16. Personality disorders 17. Developmental disorders: Disorders of childhood or adolescence 19. Aging and psychological disorders: Delirium and dementia 20. AIDS and abnormal psychology Prof's schedule| Syllabus |PowerPoints | Study sheets 1 2 3 | Linked sites | APA format
   
 
 

 

Text Box: Links to Internet Sites The textbook publisher, Wiley, has a website for Kring, Davison, Neale & Johnson which you may find useful. Antisocial Personality Disorder is examined in this website by Cecelia Van Zyl and Kristine Nagel. Autistic Disorder is the topic of a website by Janmarie Young and Heather Watt. Gender Identity Disorder, by Emily Jeffers and Anne Warner, considers the arguments about sex-change surgery. Narcolepsy, a sleep disorder, is explained in this Website by students Gregory Bayse and Lori Scott. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is described in this website by Gregory Bayse. The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill is an advocacy organization. The website connects you to legislative issues concerning mental illness, which this organization prefers to call brain disorders. I encourage you to subscribe (it is free) to their electronic news service. Internet Mental Health website is an international website with loads of diagnostic information and psychopharmacology data. It includes a comprehensive listing of links for many of the disorders we will study in this course. However, many disorders are not covered. ADAA, the Anxiety Disorders Association of America. This website has some interesting information and links. The federal Department of Veterans' Affairs maintains a website on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This site includes an electronic database (called PILOTS) of references to all of the world's literature on PTSD, including a search engine, as well as 10 electronic publications on PTSD-related topics. The Web is a good source of information on lesser-known disorders, like Asperger's Syndrome. However, be careful and discerning as you use information from individual sites: Check and verify everything. The Whole Brain Atlas (http://www.med.harvard.edu:80/AANLIB/home.html) contains an extensive collection of brain scans, using MRI and Cerebral Blood Flow measures. Plates include normal and diseased brain tissue for all levels of the brain. Take a look at it to help you understand brain imaging techniques in chapter 4, and for schizophrenia and dementia in later chapters.

Text Box: Originally posted 2 September, 1998; Last updated 10 January, 2007. Copyright 1998-2006 Paul D. Young Text Box: Student projects. Selected student-authored websites and PowerPoint presentations for projects 2 and 3 are published with links here, in alphabetical order by last name of first author. Greg Bayse and Deanna Booser, Bulimia Nervosa Jeffrey Eggleston and Christina Goranson, Learning Disorders Sarah Gagnon and Tracy Lewis, Asperger's Syndrome Erica Miller and Marissa Rennie, Dissociative fugue. Sara Reed and Stephen Kravchuck, Gender Identity Disorder Jennifer Roorda and Laura Portman, Panic Disorder With Agoraphobia Andrea Toro and Elizabeth Sherwood, Anorexia Nervosa James Walls and Amy Turner, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder