Abnormal Psychology

SOC 425

Abnormal Psychology

Week Seven (February 14th – February 21st)

Read and study chapter 6 / Anxiety Disorders

Review all of the material presented under weeks 6 & 7 course documents.

Ch 6 Anxiety GHA

25 Multiple Choice questions based on Chapter 6: Anxiety Disorders. The test in not timed and you may save and re-enter as often as needed. Due Saturday, 2/27

Anxiety Disorder Presentation

Anxiety_Disorders2.ppt (16.384 Mb)

This is a voice annotated PowerPoint presentation on Anxiety Disorders. It is best viewed by downloading the presentation to your desktop and then playing it from outside of Blackboard.

Video Clip

SteveSocialPhobia.mov (17.619 Mb)

Steve Social Phobia video clip

Click on the link above to download. This usually works best if you right click and then save it to your hard drive. Close out of blackboard or minimize and then open it from your desktop. You will need quick time installed to view this.

Team Diagnosis of Panic Disorder

teamDiag.mov (4.644 Mb)

A clinical team meets to discuss the diagnosis of Panic Disorder in a patient.

Click on the link above to download. This usually works best if you right click and then save it to your hard drive. Close out of blackboard or minimize and then open it from your desktop. You will need quick time installed to view this.

Panic Disorder in NY Times

The following article just appeared in the NY Times:

February 6, 2007

In Rigorous Test, Talk Therapy Works for Panic Disorder

By BENEDICT CAREY

The field of psychoanalysis has struggled with a disabling internal conflict in recent years: whether to subject the therapy to rigorous testing, like the process through which new drugs are approved, or to insist that the insights it provides are self-evident and cannot be put under a microscope.

This internal debate has raged even as analysis, Freud’s open-ended talking cure, has become increasingly marginalized as a practice. But...