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

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

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

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

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

Depressive Disorders

In this video I describe the symptoms and prevalence of several disorders in the DSM-5 category of Depressive Disorders with a focus on Major Depressive Disorder. I describe the symptoms and prevalence of MDD, patterns such as seasonal pattern and … Read More