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PSY 351 Abnormal and Clinical Psychology

300 levelSocial Sciences11 topics

PSY 351 covers 11 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Concept and criteria of abnormality
  2. Classification and diagnosis of mental disorders (DSM/ICD)
  3. Anxiety disorders
  4. Dissociative disorders
  5. Mood disorders: depression and bipolar disorder
  6. Schizophrenia and psychotic disorders
  7. Personality disorders
  8. Substance-related disorders
  9. Eating disorders
  10. Clinical assessment and diagnosis
  11. Approaches to treatment

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Concept and criteria of abnormality

The concept of abnormality in clinical psychology concerns how psychologists decide whether behaviour, thoughts, or emotions fall outside what is expected or healthy. For exams, you must master both the meaning of abnormality and the main criteria used to judge it, because no single criterion is sufficient on its own and questions often test their differences and limitations.

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