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
Comparing Effectiveness & Lifestyle Factors
In this video I discuss comparing effectiveness of treatments as well as comparison with placebo, wait-list, and no treatment conditions. I also describe how lifestyle factors may play a role in mental illness and how positive lifestyle changes can help … Read More
Effectiveness of Treatment
In this video I discuss the difficulties of assessing the effectiveness of treatment. These include spontaneous remission, regression to the mean, nonspecific treatment effects, and biases which can influence patient and clinician perspectives on improvement. Disclaimer: This channel is for … Read More
Biomedical Approaches: Psychopharmacology
In this video I begin describing biomedical approaches to mental illness in more detail and focus on psychopharmacology. I describe some of the main mechanisms of antipsychotic, anti-anxiety, and antidepressant medications, along with the uses and potential side effects of … Read More
Treatment of Mental Illness
In this video I provide a brief overview of some of the general issues surrounding the treatment of mental illness. These include the goal of treatment, who provides treatment, who receives treatment, and ethical considerations related to treatment. Disclaimer: This … 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
Bipolar & Related Disorders
In this video I describe the symptoms and prevalence of several disorders in the DSM-5 category of Bipolar and Related Disorders, formerly in the category of mood disorders. I describe the symptoms and prevalence of Bipolar I, Bipolar II, and … Read More
Neurodevelopmental Disorders
In this video I describe some symptoms and prevalence of several disorders in the Neurodevelopmental Disorders category of the DSM-5. This category includes intellectual disability, communication disorders, learning disorders, and motor disorders. In this video I focus on Autism Spectrum … Read More
Dissociative Disorders
In this video I describe some symptoms and prevalence of several disorders in the Dissociative Disorders category of the DSM-5. These include dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue, dissociative identity disorder, and depersonalization/derealization disorder. Please note that the symptoms described in this … Read More