Psychopathology Topics

• Psychopathology Topics


  • Definitions of abnormality
  • Characteristics of Phobias, Depression & OCD
  • Behavioural Approach to explaining Phobias
  • Behavioural Approach to treating Phobias
  • Cognitive Approach to explaining Depression
  • Cognitive Approach to treating Depression
  • Biological Approach to explaining OCD
  • Biological Approach to treating OCD
• Definitions of Abnormality

  • Statistical Infrequency/deviation
  • Deviation from Social Norms
  • Deviation from ideal mental health (Johoda 1958)
  • Failure to function adequately (Rosin & Seligman 1989)
• Characteristics of OCD, Phobias & Depression 


  Cognitive

  Emotional

  Behavioural

  • OCD
  • Depression
  • Phobias
• Behavioural Approach to explaining Phobias


  • Mowrer (1960)
  • FINISH
• Behavioural Approach to treating Phobias


  • Flooding
  • Systematic Desensitisation (Wolpe 1958)
• Cognitive Approach to explaining Depression 


  • Beck's cognitive theory of depression (1967)
  • Ellis's ABC Model (1962)
• Cognitive Approach to treating Depression 



  FINISH
• Biological Approach to explaining OCD


  • Genetic Explanations (Lewis 1936)

  Candidate Genes

  OCD is polygenic (Taylor 2013)

  Diathesis - stress model

  Different types of OCD

  • Neural Explanations

  Role of Serotonin

  The Orbito-frontal circuit
• Biological Approach to Treating OCD 



  • SSRIs
  • Combining SSRIs with other treatments (e.g. CBT)
  • Alternatives to SSRIs
• Evaluation Techniques?


  D - design of study (case study etc)

  R - reliability, reductionist, real life

  E - ethics, ethnocentrism

  A - applicable to real world, androcentrism

  M - method

  S - sample size

  G - generalisable

  R - reliability, reductionist, real life

  A - applicable to real world, androcentrism

  V - validity

  E - ethics, ethnocentrism

  GRENADE