Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Their own notions of normal and abnormal behavior.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Cite specific and research-based evidence to support a clinical definition of normal and abnormal behavior.
- Summarize complex descriptions of symptoms of disorders and types of treatments in simpler, yet still accurate, terms.
- Analyze the hierarchy of symptoms developed for the DSM-V protocol, evaluating whether this hierarchy seems appropriate for addressing the vast majority of mental illnesses.
- Evaluate the perspectives of researchers and clinicians regarding the classification systems and treatment preferences for mental illness.
- Integrate and synthesize multiple sources of information to describe a specific mental illness and its evidence-based treatment.
- Synthesize information and research to address minimizing stigma for people dealing with mental illness and seeking treatment.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- There are complexities of the various definitions of normal and abnormal behavior.
- There are specific symptom hierarchies for different mental illnesses.
- There are evidence-based treatments for different mental illnesses.
- There are many ways to minimize stigma for people dealing with and seeking treatment for mental illness.
Vocabulary
- psychotherapy
- eclectic approach
- psychoanalysis
- resistance
- transference
- free association
- interpretation
- psychodynamic therapists
- humanistic therapy
- client-centered therapy
- active listening
- unconditional positive regard
- behavior therapy
- counterconditioning
- exposure therapies
- flooding
- systematic desensitization
- token economy
- aversive conditioning
- cognitive therapies
- cognitive-behavioral therapy
- group therapy
- evidence-based practice
- counselor
- clinical social worker
- clinical psychologist
- psychiatrist
- psychopharmacology
- biomedical therapy
- deinstitutionalization
- antipsychotic drugs
- tardive dyskinesia
- anti-anxiety drugs
- antidepressant drugs
- psychosurgery
- lobotomy
- electroconvulsive therapy
- rTMS
- medical model
- biopsychosocial model
- insanity
- DSM-V
- anxiety
- generalized anxiety disorder
- panic disorder
- phobia
- obsessive-compulsive disorder
- posttraumatic stress disorder
- agoraphobia
- social anxiety disorder
- somatoform disorders
- hypochondriasis
- conversion disorder
- dissociative disorders
- fugue
- dissociative identity disorder
- mood disorders
- major depressive disorder
- bipolar disorder
- mania
- dysthymic disorder
- schizophrenia
- delusions
- hallucinations
- catatonia
- paranoia
- personality disorders
- antisocial personality
