Break Down of teaching Psychopathology
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Assessment | Differentiation |
Definitions of abnormality |
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Deviation from social norms |
Discussion "What is normal"? |
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Failure to function adequately |
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Statistical infrequency |
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Deviation from ideal mental health |
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phobias, depression and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) |
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phobias behavioural characteristics cognitive characteristics emotional characteristics |
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depression |
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OCD |
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The behavioural approach to explaining and treating phobias |
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Ethics discussion |
Discussion on ethics tie in with BPS guidelines. Involvement |
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the two-process model including classical and operant conditioning |
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systematic desensitisation, including relaxation and use of hierarchy |
Ethics discussion. Look at past questions |
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flooding |
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Essay question |
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The cognitive approach to explaining and treating depression |
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Dance |
Dance - Kinethestic learning |
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Beck’s negative triad |
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Ellis’s ABC model |
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cognitive behaviour therapy, including challenging irrational thoughts |
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The biological approach to explaining and treating OCD |
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genetic and neural explanations |
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drug therapy |
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