(Note: These videos were created by the College Board to help students review in the Covid spring of 2020. That exam did not include Clinical Psychology or Social Psychology as topics, so they did not create review videos for the full units for those topics.)
http://www.learner.org/vod/vod_window.html?pid=1590
Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positive, and introduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress reduction: reaching out to others.
This is an interactive personality test that will calculate an A/B personality type for you.
Introduction
Type A and Type B personality theory was devised by doctors Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman in the 1950s. They claimed that a certain type of people, "Type A", were much more likely to get heart disease, because of their high stress lifestyle, than other people, "Type B".
Type A
The theory describes a Type A individual as ambitious, rigidly organized, highly status conscious, can be sensitive, care for other people, are truthful, impatient, always try to help others, take on more than they can handle, want other people to get to the point, proactive, and obsessed with time management. People with Type A personalities are often high-achieving "workaholics" who multi-task, push themselves with deadlines, and hate both delays and ambivalence.
In his 1996 book, Type A Behavior: Its Diagnosis and Treatment, Friedman suggests that Type A behavior is expressed in three major symptoms: free-floating hostility, which can be triggered by even minor incidents; time urgency and impatience, which causes irritation and exasperation usually described as being "short-fused"; and a competitive drive, which causes stress and an achievement-driven mentality. The first of these symptoms is believed to be covert and therefore less observable, while the other two are more overt.
Type B
The theory describes Type B individuals as a contrast to those with Type A personalities. People with Type B personality by definition generally live at a lower stress level and typically work steadily, enjoying achievement but not becoming stressed when they are not achieved. When faced with competition, they do not mind losing and either enjoy the game or back down. They may be creative and enjoy exploring ideas and concepts. They are often reflective, thinking about the outer and inner worlds. Furthermore, Type B personalities may have a poor sense of time schedule and can be predominately right brained thinkers.
Validity
A/B personality theory never became widely used in cardiology, the claim that A/B type predicts risk for heart disease is disputed, but the distinction between type A and type B has become a popular one in non academic terms.
This test was developed for this website using descriptions of the types from Friedman (1996) - it has no serious research as to its validity.
Please realize that having a Type A personality does not mean you are guaranteed to have stress-related health issues. In fact, view the TED Talk "How to Make Stress Your Friend" above to see how recent research suggests that simply changing your mindset about stress can fundamentally change the situation. However, if you are very "Type A" and have a lot of stress, it may be worth looking at ways to manage your stress in more healthy ways.
http://www.dsm5.org/Documents/changes%20from%20dsm-iv-tr%20to%20dsm-5.pdf
John Oliver explains how our national system of treating mental health works, or more often than not, how it doesn’t.
(Important Note: If you choose to watch, please be warned that Mr. Oliver uses rather crude language at times. However, I feel it is worth sharing this piece nonetheless considering his thought-provoking analysis of a very important issue.)http://www.mentalhealth.com/p20-grp.html
At http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/index.shtml there is a search function for all of their mental health publications.
Booklets:
Looking at abnormal behavior
The Nature of Stress
The Anxiety Disorders
Psychological Factors and Physical Illness
Personality Disorders
Substance Abuse Disorders
Sexual Disorders
Mood Disorders
The Schizophrenias
Organic Mental Disorders
Behavior Disorders of Childhood
Psychotherapies
An Ounce of Prevention
Take this online self-assessment to obtain a measurement of your typical level of anxiety. (Note: This should not be treated as a diagnostic tool for GAD or any other Anxiety Disorder. However, if your results are concerning to you, I encourage you to talk to a qualified professional about this.)
This video is about the famous case of Andrea Yates - a woman who killed her children while suffering from Post-Partum Depression with Psychotic Symptoms.
The full clip (including a part on the brain scans of the different personalities) is available through the link to "The Brain" video series on the "Miscellaneous Files" page.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2005559,00.html?hpt=T2
This site is called About-Face. The site has been of great use for both sociology and psychology classes when dealing with the role and portrayal of women in our culture. The site calls out the magazines and advertisers about their respective questionable images in a portion called, "gallery of offenders." However, this is not just exploitation. The site also has a gallery of winners, featuring ads that have real women in real situations. There is also a great deal of sarcasm that comes with explaining the offenders--pretty cool if you ask me.
Established in 1999, the Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center has been informing the public on the various eating disorders and their treatments. While the site appears to be primarily designed to assist someone in finding treatment, there is basic information on anorexia, bulimia and the other eating disorders.
In 2008, the National Institute of Mental Health published a 26 page booklet on the various Eating Disorders. The book, written primarily to a layperson, provides a good background to the basics of the many Eating Disorders as they currently appear in the DSM-IV-TR.
To download a PDF version of the booklet
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/eating-disorders/nimheatingdisorders.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U&feature=player_embedded
A few years ago, Dove Soap created a campaign for "real beauty" in an attempt to alter cultural attitudes toward what makes women attractive. This campaign originally featured the video linked above to make viewers aware of how much change goes into a woman's appearance before and after she is photographed. Whether it is lighting, makeup, or editing the photo, there is a clear and distinct difference between reality and the images that people see in the magazines.This video is a speech given by Temple Grandin. She's a truly amazing woman with autism spectrum disorder who used her disorder to her advantage in helping pioneer making cattle ranches and slaughterhouses more humane. The way that her mind works helped her to think about things differently and understand what animals were thinking better than others could. She references an HBO movie called "Temple Grandin" that tells her story and stars Claire Danes. I would recommend it to anyone that is interested.
Here is the full program about the history of lobotomy that we watched part of in class. (Warning: There are some graphic images that may be difficult to handle for those that are more sensitive.)
This is a clip from the classic "Mind" video series about the effectiveness of combining medication with talk therapy.
The Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center has developed a website devoted to the work of Carl Rogers. Below is the "About Us" page from the site.
The Carl Rogers website serves as a gateway to the work of Dr. Carl Rogers and the many disciplines he influenced. Its primary audience is scholars and practitioners. It is a project of Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, funded by the proceeds of the 2002 Carl R. Rogers Centennial Symposium.The site includes a bibliography of books and articles by and about Rogers and the Person-Centered Approach (PCA) with links to those that are available online. It makes available a collection of rich media - selected audio and video archives that are streamed as WindowsMedia, as well as samples from the CD ROM Carl Rogers: A Daughter's Tribute and Howard Kirschenbaum's videotape Carl Rogers and the Person-Centered Approach. The audio collection is selected from the Carl R. Rogers archive at University of California at Santa Barbara. A comprehensive list of (and links to) world-wide organizations and training centers connected with Rogers and the Person-Centered Approach is included.The Carl Rogers website is located at http://www.carlrogers.info/index.html
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) at http://www.nimh.nih.gov has published an excellent 30 page booklet entitled Mental Health Medications. The booklet, organized by disorders, details many of the psychiatric medications used today. The publication ends with an alphabetical listing of drugs.
The booklet can be viewed online at http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/mental-health-medications/index.shtmland/
or downloaded as a PDF file at http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/mental-health-medications/nimh-mental-health-medications.pdf
https://www.jhaaken.com/guilty-except-for-insanity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE5EMhb-jcA
This is a newer documentary about the Oregon State Hospital (made famous by One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest). It documents the struggles of 5 people in the hospital. It also touches on the history of mental hospitals and the legal struggles these patients face.
Here is little excerpt from the website:
"Guilty Except for Insanity follows the journeys of five people who enlist the insanity defense after being charged with serious crimes. The documentary portrays the circumstances surrounding their crimes and the dilemmas they confront as they enter the Oregon State Hospital under the "guilty except for insanity" plea."