Abnormal Psychology
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- Swinburne Online: Fully online
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning. For Online unit delivery, learning is conducted exclusively online.
2023 teaching periods
Swinburne Online Teaching Period 1 |
Swinburne Online Teaching Period 3 | |
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Prerequisites
PSY70013 Social PsychologyAND
PSY70014 Cognition and Human Performance
AND
PSY70015 Developmental Psychology
Aims and objectives
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Compare and critique the ways in which human behaviours have been identified as 'abnormal' or dysfunctional
2. Compare the features of major systems of classification of mental disorders, and explain how they are applied to individual cases
3. Critically review the major features of a multi-dimensional approach to understanding mental disorders (biological, sociocultural and psychological)
4. Describe and characterise the phenomenology and aetiology of major classes of mental disorders, such as anxiety disorders, mood disorders, psychotic disorders, eating disorders and addictive behaviours, personality disorders and developmental disorders
Courses with unit
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment, general skills outcomes and content.
Teaching methods
This unit will involve up to 150 hours of work including:
Type [SOL] | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Face to Face Contact | NA |
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Online Contact Blackboard Collaborate | 1 hour per week | 4 | 4 |
Specified Learning Activities Completing online quizzes (10) Readings Learning Activities | 8 hours per week | 12 | 96 |
Unspecified Learning Activities Independent study, assignment preparation, revision, communication between tutors and students | Recommended |
| 50 |
TOTAL |
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| 150 hours/12.5cp |
Assessment
Types | Individual or Group task | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs |
Examination | Individual | 40% | 1, 2, 4 |
10 weekly Online Quizzes | Individual | 20% | 1, 2, 4 |
Assignment | Individual | 40% | 1, 2, 3 |
General skills outcomes
• Analysis Skills
• Communication Skills
• Ability to tackle unfamiliar problems
• Ability to work independently
Content
• Causal factors in mental health
• Stress and mental health
• Description and diagnosis of anxiety disorders
• Description and diagnosis of mood disorders
• Psychological treatments: the major evidence based approaches
• Description and diagnosis of dissociative disorders
• Breaks from reality: schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
• Problems with reward management: eating disorders and substance-related disorders
• Pervasive disorders related to the personality
• Disorders of childhood and adolescence
Study resources
- References.