Unit IX: Abnormal Psychology and Treatment--Chapters 16-17
Unit Learning Targets and Key Vocabulary
Learning Objectives:
1. I can describe contemporary and historical conceptions of what constitutes psychological disorders.
(College Board Standard XII A)
2. I can recognize the use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
published by the APA as the primary reference for making diagnostic judgments. (XII C)
3. I can discuss the major diagnostic categories, including anxiety and somatoform disorders, mood
disorders, schizophrenia, organic disturbances, personality disorders, and dissociative
disorders, and their corresponding symptoms. (XII D 1-7)
4. I can evaluate the strengths and limitations of various approaches to explaining psychological
disorders: medical model, psychoanalytic, humanistic, cognitive, biological, and sociocultural.
(XII B)
5. I can identify the positive and negative consequences of diagnostic labels (e.g., the Rosenhan study).
(XII C)
6. I can discuss the intersection between psychology and the legal system (e.g., confidentiality, insane
defense). (XII C)
7. I can describe the central characteristics of psychotherapeutic intervention. (XIII A)
8. I can describe major treatment orientations used in therapy (e.g., behavioral, cognitive, humanistic)
and how those orientations influence therapeutic planning. (XIII A)
9. I can compare and contrast different treatment formats (e.g., individual, group). (XIII B)
10. I can summarize effectiveness of specific treatments used to address specific problems. (XIII A-B)
11. I can discuss how cultural and ethnic context influence choice and success of treatment (e.g.,
factors that lead to premature termination of treatment). (XIII C)
12. I can describe preventative strategies that build resilience and promote competence. (XIIIC)
13. I can identify major figures in psychological treatment (e.g., Aaron Beck, Albert Ellis, Sigmund
Freud, Mary Cover Jones, Carl Rogers, B.F. Skinner, Joseph Wolpe). (XIII A-C)
Unit Vocabulary:
Chapter 16
Psychological Disorder
DSM-IV-TR
Anxiety disorders
Generalized anxiety disorder
Panic disorder
Phobia
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Learned helplessness
Fear conditioning
Stimulus generalization
Natural selection
Anterior cingulate cortex
Dissociated Identity Disorder (DID)
Mood disorders
Major depressive disorder
Bipolar disorder
Mania
Linkage analysis
Norepinephrine
Serotonin
Frontal lobe
Hippocampus
Social-cognitive perspective—stable, global and internal
Cycle of depressed thinking
Schizophrenia
Delusions
Hallucinations
Flat effect
Positive and negative symptoms
Subtypes of Schizophrenia—Paranoid, Disorganized, Catatonic, Undifferentiated, Residual
Chronic or process schizophrenia
Acute or reactive schizophrenia
Dopamine
Glutamate
Personality disorders
Types of Personality disorders—avoidant, schizoid, histrionic, narcissistic, borderline, Antisocial
personality disorder
Chapter 17
Psychotherapy
Biomedical therapy
Eclectic approach
Psychoanalysis
Free association
Resistance
Dream analysis
Transference
Psychodynamic therapy
Humanistic therapy
Client-centered therapy
Nondirective therapy
Active listening
Behavior therapy
Counterconditioning
Exposure therapy
Virtual reality exposure therapy
Aversive therapy
Token economy
Cognitive therapy
Rational Emotive Therapy
Family therapy
Light exposure therapy
Psychopharmacology
Antipsychotic drugs
Anti-anxiety drugs
Antidepressant drugs
Electroconvulsive therapy
Lobotomy
Mary Cover Jones
Joseph Wolpe
Systematic desensitization