CBT FOR ANOREXIA

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

Document contains: ** **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)