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1. Welcome to the class!
2. Will you be successful in this course?
3. Course Learning Activities
4. The Two Cardinal Rules
5. How Your Course Grade is Determined
6. My Expectations of your commitment to this class.
7. How this course works!
8. Course Objectives
9. Hints on how to succeed in this course!
10. Instructions for the Research and Discuss Assignments
11. Instructions for the Reflective Blogs
12. How to see your forum grade and private post feedback
13. Why Science
14. Research Designs
15. History of Mental Illness
16. Reflective Blog and Discussion
17. Assessing and Classifying Abnormal Behavior
18. Learning activities for Module 2
19. Psychological Disorders: Read and Study Assignment
20. ADHD and Behavioral Disorders in Children
21. Autism: Insights from the Study of the Social Brain
22. Anxiety and Related Disorders
23. Social Anxiety
24. Dissociative Disorders
25. Mood Disorders
26. Personality Disorders
27. Psychopathy
28. Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
29. Psychological Disorders: Research and Discuss Assignment
30. Reflective Blog
31. Treatment of Psychological Disorders: Read and Study Assignment
32. Therapeutic Orientations
33. Psychopharmacology
34. Treatment of Psychological Disorders: Research and Discuss Assignment
35. Reflective Blog
36. Major Depressive Disorder
37. Alzheimer's Dementia
38. Mental Retardation
39. Tourette's Disorder
40. Specific Phobia
41. Conduct Disorder
42. Delusional Disorder
43. Cyclothymic Disorder
44. Transvestic Fetishisim
45. Gender Identity Disorder
46. Generalized Anxiety Disorder
47. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
48. Schizophrenia
49. Pathological Gambling
50. Antisocial Personality Disorder
51. Social Phobia (Social Anxiety Disorder)
52. Borderline Personality Disorder
53. Intermittent Explosive Disorder
54. Narcissistic Personality Disorder
55. Anorexia Nervosa
56. Alcohol Abuse
57. Panic Disorder without Agoraphobia
58. Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia
59. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
60. Bipolar II Disorder
61. Oppositional Defiant Disorder
62. Autistic Disorder
63. Dysthymic Disorder
64. Bulimia Nervosa
65. Histrionic Personality Disorder
66. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
67. Anorexia Nervosa
68. Psychopathy
69. References
70. Introduction
71. Mood Disorders
72. Anxiety Disorders
73. Stress and Sports Injuries
74. Personality Disorders
75. Eating and Body Dysmorphic Disorders
76. Substance Abuse Disorders
77. Over-the-Counter Drugs
78. References
79. Introduction to the Principles of Behavior Analysis
80. Four Types of Contingencies
81. Schedules of Reinforcement
82. Assessments
83. References
84. Introduction to the communication disorders
85. Expressive language disorder (315.31)
86. Mixed Receptive-Expressive Language Disorder (315.32)
87. Stuttering (315.31)
88. Selective Mutism (313.23)
89. Phonological Di