Class Calendar
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Topic |
Readings |
Expert Interview |
WEEK 1 1/17
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1.1 Introduction and Logistics Who and what?
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Required » None Optional » None
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1.2 History and Definitions What is abnormal? |
Required » CH. 1 (textbook) Introduction & Historical Overview [book] » CH. 1 (Hinshaw) What is mental disorder and what is stigma? [book] Optional » Rosenhan (1973). On being sane in insane places. Science, 179, 250-258. [pdf] » Wakefield (1992). Disorder as harmful dysfunction: A conceptual critique of DSM-III-R's definition of mental disorder. [pdf] » CH. 3 (Hinshaw): Historical perspectives on mental illness and stigma [book]
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WEEK 2 1/24
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2.1 Current Paradigms and Methods How do you study psychopathology? |
Required » CH. 2 (textbook): Current paradigms in psychopathology [book] Optional » CH. 2 (Hinshaw): Perspectives from social psychology, sociology, and evolutionary psychology. [book] » Lilienfeld & Marino (1999). Essentialism revisited: Evolutionary theory and the mental disorder. [pdf]
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2.2 Diagnosis and Assessment How is psychopathology assessed?
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Required » CH. 3 (textbook): Diagnosis and assessment [book] Optional » CH. 4 (Hinshaw): Modern perspectives on mental illness and stigma [book] » Kendell & Jablensk. (2003). Distinguishing between the validity and utility of psychiatric diagnoses. [pdf] » Widiger & Clark. (2001). Toward DSM-V and the classification of psychopathology. [pdf] » Widiger & Samuel (2005). Diagnostic categories or dimensions? [pdf]
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WEEK 3 1/31 OUTREACH PROJECT
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3.1 Anxiety Disorders I Only thing to fear is fear itself? |
Required » CH. 6 (textbook): Anxiety disorders. [book] Optional » Mennin et al. (2005). Preliminary evidence for an emotion regulation deficit model of generalized anxiety disorder. [pdf] » Mineka & Ohman (2002). Phobias and preparedness: The selective, automatic, and encapsulated nature of fear. [pdf] » Craske, M.G., & Waters, A.M. (2005). Panic disorder, phobias and generalized anxiety disorders. [pdf] » Field (2006). Is conditioning a useful framework for understanding the development and treatment of phobias? [pdf]
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Expert Interview:
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3.2 Anxiety Disorders II Pathways of vulnerability or resilience?
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Required » CH 7 (textbook): Obsessive-compulsive-related and trauma-related disorders. [book] Optional » Salkovskis (1985). Obsessive-compulsive problems: A cognitive-behavioral analysis. [pdf] » Ehlers & Clark (2000). A cognitive model of posttraumatic stress disorder. [pdf] » Brewin & Holmes (2003). Psychological theories of posttraumatic stress disorder. [pdf] » Bonanno (2004). Loss, trauma, and human resilience. [pdf]
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WEEK 4 2/7
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4.1 Eating Disorders Emotional eating?
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Required » CH. 11 (textbook): Eating disorders. [book] Optional » Stice (2002). Risk and maintenance factors for eating pathology: A meta-analytic review. [pdf] » Keel & Klump (2003). Are eating disorders culture-bound syndromes? Implications for conceptualizing their etiology. [pdf] » Polivy & Herman (2002). Causes of eating disorders. [pdf]
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4.2 Somatic Disorders Mind-body problem?
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Required » CH. 8 (textbook, pp. 236-245): Somatic symptom-related disorders. [book] » CH. 6 (Hinshaw): Indicators of stigma from everyday life. [book] Optional » Looper & Kirmayer (2002). Behavioral medicine approaches to somatoform disorders. [pdf] » Rief et al. (1998). Cognitive aspects of hypochondriasis and the somatization syndrome. [pdf] » Warwick & Salkovskis (1990). Hypochondriasis. [pdf]
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WEEK 5 2/14
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5.1. Exam 1 EXAM #1 IN CLASS
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Required » None Optional » None
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5.2 Outreach Project Discussion What is your project topic? |
Required » None Optional » None
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WEEK 6 2/21
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6.1 Stigma and Mental Illness Ashamed of abnormality?
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Required » CH. 10 (Hinshaw): Overcoming stigma II: Media and mental health professionals. [book] Optional » CH. 10 (Hinshaw): Overcoming stigma III: Legislation, policy, and community efforts. [book] » Stier & Hinshaw (2007). Explicit and implicit stigma against individuals with mental illness |
Expert Interview:
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6.2 Substance Use Disorders Craving to feel?
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Required » CH. 10 (textbook): Substance use disorders. [book] Optional » Robinson & Berridge (2003). Addiction. [pdf] » Kober & Boling (2014): Emotion regulation in substance use disorders. [pdf] » Sher et al. (2005). The development of alcohol use disorder. [pdf]
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WEEK 7 2/28 OUTREACH PROPOSALS DUE
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7.1 Criminal Justice System Not guilty by reason of insanity? GUEST LECTURE |
Required » CH. 16 (textbook): Legal and ethical issues. [book] Optional » Gilbert (1992). Ethical issues in the treatment of severe psychopathology in university and college counseling centers. [pdf]
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7.2 Legal and Ethical Issues Not guilty by reason of insanity? |
Required » None Optional » None
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WEEK 8 3/7
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8.1 Mood Disorders I: Depression More than just sadness?
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Required » CH. 5 (textbook): Mood disorders. [book] Optional » Nolen-Hoeksema, S. (2001). Gender differences in depression. [pdf] » Nolen-Hoeksema, Wisco, & Lyubomirsky (2008). Rethinking rumination. [pdf] » Hammen (2005). Stress and depression. [pdf] » Rottenberg (2005). Mood and emotion in major depression. [pdf]
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8.2 Mood Disorders II: Mania and the Bipolar Spectrum Can feeling too good be bad?
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Required » Miklowitz & Johnson (2006). The psychopathology and treatment of bipolar disorder. [pdf] Optional » Gruber. (2011). Can feeling too good be bad? Positive emotion persistence (PEP) in bipolar disorder. [pdf] » Gruber & Keltner (2007). Emotional behavior and psychopathology. [pdf] » Johnson (2005). Mania and dysregulation in goal pursuit. [pdf] » Alloy et al (2006). Behavioral approach system sensitivity and bipolar spectrum disorders. [pdf]
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WEEK 9 3/14
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9.1 Schizophrenia I Where is my mind?
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Required » CH. 9 (textbook): Schizophrenia. [book] Optional » Kring & Moran (2008). Emotional response deficits in schizophrenia: Insights from affective science. [pdf]
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9.2 Schizophrenia II The center cannot hold? |
Required » Beck & Rector (2005). Cognitive approaches to schizophrenia: Theory and therapy. [pdf] Optional » Barch (2005). The cognitive neuroscience of schizophrenia. [pdf] » Kirkpatrick et al (2001). A separate disease within the syndrome of schizophrenia. [pdf] » Walker (1997). Schizophrenia: A neural diathesis-stress model. [pdf]
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WEEK 10 3/21
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10.1 Exam 2 EXAM #2 IN CLASS
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Required » None Optional » None
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10.2 Psychopathy A dark side of the human mind? |
Required » Marsh (2013). What can we learn about emotion by studying psychopathy? [pdf] Optional » Lynam & Gudonis (2005). The development of psychopathy. [pdf] » Fowles & Dindo (2006). A dual-deficit model of psychopathy. [doc] » Marsh (2013). What can we learn about emotion by studying psychopathy? [pdf]
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WEEK 11 4/4
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11.1 Personality Disorders Can personality be disordered?
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Required » CH. 15 (textbook): Personality disorders. [book] » Trull & Durrett. (2005). Categorical and dimensional models of personality disorder. [pdf] Optional » Hopwood et al. (2017). The time has come for dimensional personality disorder diagnosis. [pdf] » Trull et al (2008). Affective instability as a core feature of borderline personality disorder with ecological momentary assessment. [pdf] » Watson et al. (1994). Structures of personality and their relevance to psychopathology. [pdf]
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11.2 Dissociative Disorders Remembering and forgetting?
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Required » CH. 8 (textbook, pp. 226-235): Dissociative disorders. [book] Optional » Kihlstrom (2005). Dissociative disorders. [pdf] » Loftus (1993). The reality of repressed memories. [pdf] » Allen & Iacono (2001). Assessing the validity of amnesia in dissociative identity disorders. [pdf] » Clancy et al. (2002). Memory distortion in people reporting abduction by aliens. [pdf] » McNally et al (2005). Reality monitoring in adults reporting repressed, recovered, or continuous memories of childhood sexual abuse. [pdf]
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WEEK 12 4/11
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12.1 Sexual Disorders I What's sex got to do with it? |
Required » CH. 12 (textbook): Sexual disorders. [book] Optional » Chivers et al. (2004). A sex difference in the specificity of sexual arousal. [pdf]
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12.2 Sexual Disorders II
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Required » Prause et al. (2017). Data do not support sex as addictive. [pdf] Optional » Prause & Graham (2007). Asexuality: Characterization and classification. [pdf]
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WEEK 13 4/18
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13.1 Childhood Disorders I How early can emotions go awry? |
Required » CH. 13 (textbook): Disorders of childhood.[book] Optional » Capps et al. (1992). Understanding of simple and complex emotions in non-retarded children with autism. [pdf]
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13.2 Childhood Disorders II
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Required » CH. 9 (Hinshaw): Overcoming stigma II: Families and individuals. [book] Optional » None
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WEEK 14 4/25
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14.1 Exam 3 EXAM #3 IN CLASS
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Required » None Optional » None
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14.2 Happiness and Psychopathology Don't worry be happy?
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Required » Gruber, Mauss, & Tamir (2011). A dark side of happiness? How, when, and why happiness is not always good. [pdf] Optional » Watson & Naragon-Gainey (2010). On the specificity of positive emotional dysfunction in psychopathology: Evidence from the mood and anxiety disorders and schizophrenia/schizotypy. [pdf] » Fredrickson (1998). What good are positive emotions? [pdf] |
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WEEK 15 5/2
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15.1 OUTREACH PROJECTPRESENTATIONS
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Required » None Optional » CH. 12 (Hinshaw): Concluding issues. [book]
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Expert Interview: |
15.2 FEEDBACK What did you gain from this course? |
Required » None Optional » None
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