Advanced Abnormal Psychology

Study lessons

1. 1

   Defining Abnormality, Models, and Classification

   How psychologists decide what counts as a disorder, the major explanatory models, and how the DSM-5-TR and ICD-11 turn clinical judgment into reliable diagnosis.

   15 min
2. 2

   Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Trauma Disorders

   The anxiety disorders and their differentials, the obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, and the trauma and stressor-related disorders separated by their timing.

   15 min
3. 3

   Depressive and Bipolar Disorders and Suicide Risk

   The depressive disorders, the bipolar spectrum with mania versus hypomania, and the core principles of assessing suicide risk in a distressed client.

   15 min
4. 4

   Schizophrenia and the Psychotic Disorders

   Schizophrenia's positive and negative symptoms and course, the other psychotic-spectrum disorders separated by duration and mood, and the dopamine and neurodevelopmental models.

   15 min
5. 5

   Personality, Neurodevelopmental, and Neurocognitive Disorders

   The personality disorders sorted into clusters A, B, and C, the neurodevelopmental disorders of childhood onset, and the neurocognitive disorders including delirium and dementia.

   15 min
6. 6

   Somatic, Dissociative, Eating, and Substance Disorders

   The somatic symptom and related disorders, the dissociative disorders, the feeding and eating disorders, and the substance-related and addictive disorders, with the differentials the board favors.

   15 min

Section practice test

3 test sets covering the whole Advanced Abnormal Psychology section, 90 original questions with explanations. After you finish the lessons above, prove it here. Randomized every run.