Introduction to Abnormal Psychology (Mental Disorders) Course Guide

Criteria for determining abnormality/Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders/Childhood Disorders/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder/Conduct Disorder/Mental Retardation/Asperger’s Disorder/Stereotypic Movement Disorder/Normal Functioning/Depression in Childhood/Anxiety Disorders/Types of Therapy; Adlerian, Behaviour, Existential, Gestalt, Person Centred Therapy, Psycho analysis, Rational Emotive, Reality Therapy, Transactional.

Types of cognitive disorders/Delirium/Dementia/Types of Dementia/Alzheimer’s Disease/Comparing Dementia and Delirium/Amnesia/Cognitive Disorder NOS/Pseudo Dementia/Research Methods in Biopsychology

Scope and nature/Psychosis/Treating Psychosis/Schizoaffective Disorders/Delusional (Paranoid) Disorders/Onset of Schizophrenia/Symptoms of Schizophrenia/Treating Schizophrenia/Schizophrenia and violence/Biology of Schizophrenia/Antipsychotic Medications/Psychosocial Treatments/Role of the Patients Support System

Depressive Disorders/Determining Type of Depression/Unipolar disorders and bipolar disorders./Risk Factors for Depression/Men and Depression/Diagnostic Evaluation and Treatment/Types of Treatment

Scope and Nature/Anxiety Symptoms/Generalised anxiety disorders/Phobic anxiety disorders/panic disorder/Treatments -intervention, drugs, etc./Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Somatisation Disorder/Conversion Disorder/Pain Disorder/Hypochondriasis/Body Dysmorphic Disorder/Factitious Disorders; types, symptoms, causes, diagnosis/Munchausen’s Syndrome/Dissociative Disorders/Psychogenic Amnesia/Psychogenic Fugue/Dissociative Identity Disorder/Depersonalisation Disorder

Scope and Nature/Hypoactive Sexual Disorder/Sexual Aversion/Female Sexual Arousal Disorder/Male Erectile Disorder/Female and Male Orgasmic Disorders/Premature Ejaculation/Dyspareunia/Vaginismus/Secondary Sexual Dysfunction/Paraphilia/Paedophilia/Gender Identity Disorder (Transsexualism)

Scope and nature of Eating Disorders/Anorexia Nervosa/Bulimia/Binge Eating Disorder/Treatment Strategies/Research Findings and Directions/Sleep Disorders; scope and nature/Treatments for Sleep Apnoea/Prognosis for Sleep Apnoea

Symptoms of adjustment disorders/Risk Factors for Adjustment Disorders/Impulse Control Disorders/Intermittent Explosive Disorder/Kleptomania/Pyromania/Pathological Gambling/Trichotillomania/Compulsive Skin Picking

Scope and Nature of Personality Disorders/Antisocial Personality Disorder/Avoidant Personality Disorder/Dependent Personality Disorder/Histrionic Personality Disorder/Narcissistic Personality Disorder/Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder/Paranoid Personality Disorder/Schizoid Personality Disorder/Borderline Personality Disorder; symptoms, treatment, research, etc.