CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY - full package on notes for main topics!! (edexcel)

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** **Full notes for the following topics: **:

Diagnosis of mental disorders
• deviance, dysfunction, distress, and danger

Classification systems
• DSM IVR or DSM V, and ICD) for mental health
• reliability and validity of diagnoses

Schizophrenia
• Description of symptoms and features
• including thought insertion, hallucinations, delusions, disordered thinking.
• The function of neurotransmitters as an explanation.
• One other biological explanation - genetics
• One non-biological explanation
• biological treatment
• psychological treatment

Anorexia
• one biological explanation
• one non-biological explanation
• biological treatment
• psychological treatment

Individual difference
• Cultural effects can lead to individual differences in mental health disorders.

Case studies
• use of case studies, to include an example study: e.g., Lavarenne et al. (2013) Containing psychotic patients with fragile boundaries: a single group case study.

Interviews
• use of interviews in clinical psychology, to include an example study: e.g. Vallentine et al. (2010) Psycho-educational group for detained offender patients: understanding mental illness.

Classic study
• Rosenhan (1973) On being sane in insane places.

One contemporary study on schizophrenia
• Carlsson et al. (2000) Network interactions in schizophrenia – therapeutic implications

One contemporary study on anorexia
• Scott-Van Zeeland et al. (2013) Evidence for the role of EPHX2 gene variants in anorexia nervosa (A01s)

(for A LEVEL EDEXCEL PSYCHOLOGY)