Defining Mental Disorders (Clinically significant detriment, Internal source, Involuntary manifestation)

Perspectives on the causes of mental disorders (psychodynamic, medical, biological, cognitive-behavioural, humanistic, sociocultural, disthesis-stress model)

Multiple causation (predisposing causes, precipitating causes, maintaining causes)

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV (DSM IV) (The five axis’s, problems with classification)

Clinical vs. Actuarial diagnosis (clinical judgements, actuarial judgements, comparison of the two)

Anxiety disorders (definition of anxiety, anticipatory anxiety, GAD, phobias, panic, panic disorder, PTSD, agoraphobia, social phobia, specific phobia, obcessive-compulsive disorder, obsession, compulsion)

Somatoform disorders (somatoform disorder, somatization disorder, hypochondriasis, conversion disorder)

Dissociative disorders (dissociation, dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue, multiple personality disorder, culture-bound syndromes)

Personality disorders (antisocial personality disorder, psychopathy, primary characteristics, causes)

Psychoactive substance use disorders (biological perspective, intoxicating effects, withdrawal effects, permanent effects, cognitive and behavioural perspectives, sociocultural perspective, possible causes, characteristics of alcoholism)

Schizophrenia (symptoms, thought disorder, delusions of persecution, delusions of grandeur, delusions of control, hallucinations, disorganized speech, negative symptoms, positive symptoms, biological perspective, heredity, brain chemistry, brain structure, sociocultural perspective, undifferentiated schizophrenia, paranoid schizophrenia, disorganized schizophrenia, reactive schizophrenia, process schizophrenia, possible causes, dopamine hypothesis)

Mood disorders (depression, major depression, mania, bipolar disorder, possible causes, attributional style, lithium carbonate, biochemical factors, zeitgeber, seasonal affext disorder)

Early treatment of mental disorders (trephining, development of psychotherapy)

Insight therapies (definition)

Psychoanalysis (psychodynamic, modern psychodynamic, psychoanalysis, free association, resistance, transference, countertransference, dream interpretation, manifest content, latent content)

Humanisitic therapy (client-centred therapy, incongruence, unconditional positive regard)

Gestalt therapy (definition empty chair technique)

Behavioural and Cognitive-behavioural therapies (classical conditioning, phobia hierarchies, systematic desensitization, aversion therapy, implosion therapy, behavioural modification, operant conditioning, token economies, modeling, assertiveness training, extinction, punishment covert sensitization, cognitive restructuring, rational-emotive therapy, Aaron Beck, stress inoculation training)

Group therapies (group psychotherapy, structural family therapy, couple therapy, evaluation of therapies)

Community psychology (deinstitutionalization, preventive psychology, indigenous healing)

Biological treatments (drug therapies, antipsychotic drugs, tardive dyskinesia, antidepressant drugs, antimanic drugs, antianxiety drugs, ECT, psychosurgery, cingulotomy, ethical issues in biological