Unit 6 - Psychological Disorders & Treatment
6.5 PERSONALITY DISORDERS
Unit Articles
Unit Videos
Article 12.1 New cause of schizophrenia uncovered (Neuroscience News)
Article 12.2 Mental Illness Is Far More Common Than We Knew
Article 12.3 Audra McDonald On Surviving Past Suicide Attempt, Living With Depression
Article 12.4 Real Sybil Admits Multiple Personalities were Fake (NPR)
Article 12.5 Mice Show Signs of Mental Disorder After Injections of Cells from Schizophrenic Patient (Scientific American)
Article 12.6 The Social Ties between Autism and Schizophrenia
Article 12.7 Enlightenment's Evil Twin
Article 12.8 Childhood Narcissism
Article 12.9 Donald Trump Deconstructed
Article 12.10 The 2 Biggest Problems With Borderline Personality Disorder
Article 12.11 4 Types of Personality Disorders
Crash Course Episode #28 - Psychological Disorders
Crash Course Episode #29 - OCD and Anxiety Disorders
Crash Course Episode #30 - Depressive and Bipolar Disorders
Crash Course Episode #31 - Trauma and Addiction
Crash Course Episode #32 - Schizophrenia and Dissociative Disorders
Crash Course Episode #33 - Eating and Body Dysmorphic Disorders
Crash Course Episode #34 - Personality Disorders
UNIT OVERVIEW
Module 65
Defining Psychological Disorders
• How do we define psychological disorders?
Understanding Psychological Disorders
• How are psychological disorders different from “normal” behavior?
Classifying Psychological Disorders
• What are psychological disorders?
Labeling Psychological Disorders
• What are the implications of the label “psychological disorder” ?
Rates of Psychological Disorders
• Why are psychological disorders more prevalent in some countries or cultures than in others?
Module 66
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
• How does generalized anxiety disorder affect people?
Panic Disorder
• How does panic disorder affect people?
Phobias
• How do phobias affect people?
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
• How does obsessive-compulsive disorder affect people?
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
• How does post-traumatic stress affect people?
Understanding Anxiety Disorders, OCD, and PTSD
• What are the roots of anxiety disorders, OCD, and PTSD in people?
Module 67
Major Depressive Disorder
• How does major depressive disorder affect people?
Bipolar Disorder
• How does bipolar disorder affect people?
Understanding Mood Disorders
• What are the roots of mood disorders in people?
Module 68
Symptoms of Schizophrenia
• How can you tell someone has schizophrenia?
Onset and Development of Schizophrenia
• When and how does schizophrenia develop?
Understanding Schizophrenia
• What are the roots of schizophrenia in people?
Module 69
Somatic Symptoms and Related Disorders
• How do psychological issues manifest themselves in our general physical well-being?
Dissociative Disorders
• What does it mean to dissociate?
Eating Disorders
• Why are eating disorders so difficult to treat and recover from?
Personality Disorders
• How do personality disorders affect people?
KEY TOPICS
A. Definitions of Abnormality
B. Theories of Psychopathology
C. Diagnosis of Psychopathology
D. Types of Disorders
E. Treatment Approaches
F. Modes of Therapy
G. Community and Preventative Approaches
In this portion of the course, students examine the nature of common challenges to adaptive functioning. This section emphasizes formal conventions that guide psychologists’ judgments about diagnosis and problem severity. AP students in psychology should be able to do the following:
• Describe contemporary and historical conceptions of what constitutes psychological disorders.
Recognize the use of the most recent version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) published by the American Psychiatric Association as the primary reference for making diagnostic judgments.
• Discuss the major diagnostic categories, including anxiety disorders, bipolar and related disorders, depressive disorders, dissociative disorders, feeding and eating disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders, neurocognitive disorders, obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, personality disorders, schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders, somatic symptom and related disorders, and trauma- and stressor-related disorders and their corresponding symptoms.
• Evaluate the strengths and limitations of various approaches to explaining psychological disorders: medical model, psychoanalytic, humanistic, cognitive, biological, and sociocultural.
• Identify the positive and negative consequences of diagnostic labels (e.g., the Rosenhan study).
• Discuss the intersection between psychology and the legal system (e.g., confidentiality, insanity defense).
Videos
Anxiety Disorders
Schizophrenia New Therapies