Treatment of Mental Illness Practice Questions

This video covers 10 practice multiple choice questions on the treatment of mental illness and includes questions related to therapeutic approaches, pharmaceuticals, & efficacy of treatments. I hope this can help you to review your knowledge and understanding, let me … Read More

Psychological Disorders Practice Questions

This video covers 10 practice multiple choice questions on psychological disorders and includes questions related to diagnosis, symptom types, specific disorders, and more. I hope this can help you to review your knowledge and understanding, let me know if you … Read More

Treatment of Mental Illness Knowledge Organizer

Here’s a knowledge organizer I’ve created of the most essential terms for the treatment of mental illness in an introductory psychology course. These knowledge organizers are designed to help you identify the most important factual knowledge you need to have … Read More

Psychological Disorders Knowledge Organizer

Here’s a knowledge organizer I’ve created of the most essential terms for psychological disorders in an introductory psychology course. These knowledge organizers are designed to help you identify the most important factual knowledge you need to have in order to … Read More

Evaluating Medications & Other Biomedical Interventions

In this video I consider the questions that are raised when evaluating pharmaceutical interventions and what they mean for our understanding of mental illness. Next I describe other biomedical interventions for psychological disorders which are not as commonly used and … Read More

Cognitive Therapy, CBT, & Group Approaches

In this video I describe cognitive therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and group approaches to treatment. I describe the general principles of these approaches and some of the key terms associated with each, along with examples of how these might be applied … Read More

Types of Treatment: Psychoanalytic, Humanistic, & Behavioral

In this video I describe how treatments can broadly be categorized into biomedical treatments and psychotherapy. Next I explain three approaches to psychotherapy: psychoanalytic, humanistic, and behavioral. I describe the general principles of these approaches and some of the key … Read More

Personality Disorders, Psychopathy, & Sociopathy

In this video I describe the symptoms and prevalence of several disorders in the DSM-5 category of Personality Disorders. I also briefly discuss differences between antisocial personality disorder, psychopathy, and sociopathy and the Psychopathy Checklist created by Robert Hare. The … Read More

On Being Sane in Insane Places – The Rosenhan Study

In this video I discuss David Rosenhan’s well-known study in which pseudo-patients went for psychiatric consultations and described a single symptom of hearing voices. I discuss how this study raised questions about recognition and diagnosis of mental illness, interpretations of … Read More