PSY 1403 Adult Psychopathology

Dr. Sommers-Flanagan demonstrates his collaborative and research-based approach in multiple sessions that will teach you how to recognize and address the eight dimensions of suicidality.

Schizophrenia generally does strike young people, rather than adults; but it doesn't usually appear in children before they reach their teens. But when it does, it's even more devastating than in an o lder child, and you need to get expert help immediately. In this program, you'll see what happened when one family's nine-year-old son began hearing voices, and having hallucinations – the classic signs of childhood-onset schizophrenia.

Patricia Arredondo is concerned that clinicians unfamiliar with the Latino experience will undermine potential alliances, miss valuable intervention opportunities, and limit therapeutic outcomes through biases and false assumptions. By watching her in a live clinical demonstration, you will learn to to put aside traditional Western individual-oriented beliefs that drive your assessment, diagnostic, and treatment practices. In their place, you will gain meaningful psychotherapeutic insights and skills that will help you to tap into the collectivism that shapes the Latino worldview.

A trainee seeing her first case learns to make a diagnosis with a Brazilian woman whose pathology was expressed in cultural beliefs. Practical considerations are emphasized rather than cultural explor ation of this woman living in an abuse shelter.

This video offers essential information and guidance for individuals and families coping with a schizophrenia diagnosis. The program features illuminating first-hand accounts from three people with schizophrenia and one person with schizoaffective disorder, along with commentary from treatment expert Dr. Andy Campbell.

Therapist and master teacher Jay Haley supervises a therapist who is working with a psychotic married couple. Haley suggests that the therapist treat the couple as if nothing were wrong except the soc ial situation. The consultation shows a way to make a new start with a chronic case.

Gay, lesbian, and bisexual people utilize mental health services at a rate considerably higher than heterosexuals, and over 95 percent of psychotherapists treat GLB clients in their practice. This program focuses on some of the most salient assessment and treatment issues that clinicians should know.

A stark and graphic documentary of the conditions that existed at the state prison for the criminally insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Shows scenes of the daily life of the men, interspersed with shots from the inmates' talent show. Documents the various ways the inmates are treated by guards, social workers and psychiatrists.

Documents a behavioral program conducted by Dr. Richard M. Foxx to reduce or eliminate the bizarre, self-abusive behavior of Harry, who had been institutionalized for eighteen of his twenty-four years .

30 years after she was institutionalized at Kings Park State Hospital in New York, award winning filmmaker Lucy Winer returns to face her past and learn the story of the now abandoned facility. Her meetings with other former patients, their families and the hospital staff reveal the painful legacy of our state hospital system, and the crisis left by its demise.