Abnormal and Clinical Psychology Teaching Resources
Teaching Clinical Psychology web site developed by John Suler, Ph.D.
This site is devoted to sharing ideas and resources for teaching clinical psychology, especially undergraduate courses on abnormal psychology, psychotherapy, group dynamics, psychological testing, and clinical components of introductory psychology.
Stress Management Resources: Differential Diagnosis in Psychiatry series
A series of videos - each of which is a self-contained unit - giving an overview of the classes of mental illness. The aim is to help students to diagnose using the ICD 10 classification system. Characteristics and features of certain diagnoses are highlighted using actors and comprehensive on-screen graphics. The final programme presents four case studies (aged 22 - 30 years) of interviews showing anxiety disorders, persecution, delusions and agorophobia. Produced between 1995 – 7
Psychoanalysis is a difficult topic to teach within the present intellectual landscape of psychology and medicine. My own point of departure is teaching psychoanalytic psychology and psychoanalytic therapy within the departments of clinical psychology, personality psychology, and developmental psychology, and also within the context of postgraduate clinical training for psychologists and physicians in psychoanalytic child psychotherapy. The first three of these fields are to a large extent dominated by a quantitative empiricist attitude. The “soft” data of clinical experience are regarded with mistrust, and theoretical research is often regarded as mere speculation. Psychoanalysis is seen at best as unscientific, at worst as scientific fraud. In the present climate of evidence-based medicine and clinical psychology, psychoanalysis has also got a tough match. It is mostly regarded as ineffective, time-consuming and expensive. In addition, the psychoanalytic moveme.
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On-line abnormal and clinical psychology course materials, video and audio resources