PSYCHOLOGY 582: ADVANCED PSYCHOPATHOLOGY



PSYCHOLOGY 582: ADVANCED PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

Spring, 2012

Tuesdays, 1:00pm – 4:00pm

Room 323, Psychology

Instructor: Mary-Frances O’Connor, Ph.D.

Office: Room 430

Phone: 621-2173

Email: mfoconnor@email.arizona.edu

Office Hours: Thursdays, 1-2pm, or by appointment

Goals

Advanced survey of current theory and research in symptoms, causes and course of the major psychological disorders.

Ability to communicate clinical psychological research to multiple audiences (family members, colleagues, clients, etc.)

Ability to reason through the existence of mental disorders, and the particular disorders currently reflected by the DSM-IV (and on our syllabus).

Generalist background in genetics, neuroscience, psychopharmacology to apply current and future research to disorders.

Readings

Below is a tentative schedule of topics and readings. The two books should be purchased at the bookstore; the remaining readings will be available as pdf files, available at the D2L site.

Richard J. McNally (2011). What is mental illness? Belknap Press. ISBN-10: 0674046498

W. Edward Craighead, David J. Miklowitz, Linda W. Craighead (Eds) (2008). Psychopathology: History, Diagnosis, and Empirical Foundations. Wiley. ISBN-10: 0471768618

Requirements

Your grade will be determined by a combination of:

Performance on two exams to cover lecture, discussion, and readings (70%, with 30% from Exam 1 and 40% from Exam 2).

Comments on Readings (5 commentaries, resulting in a total of 30%).

During six weeks of your choosing, you will turn in comments on the readings to me for that week. These comments should be one page single-spaced in length and should be submitted over e-mail. Comments are due each Monday by 10 a.m. Your commentary need not address all of the readings for that week but should represent insights, observations, critiques, and/or questions that occurred to you while reading the assigned articles. Examples of good commentaries include critiques of presented theories or studies, novel insights on the relationships between different readings (within or between different class meetings), and novel insights on the implications of the readings for real world issues or other issues in clinical psychology. I especially encourage you to pair any critique you make with a proposed theoretical modification or empirical study that would extend the state of what we know. If you have fulfilled the requirement of the assignment, you will receive 2 pts. Comments that do not reveal a sufficient amount of time and thought will receive 1 pt. Exceptional comments that integrate information in a very novel way or expand upon the readings to make truly insightful and interesting predictions that could conceivable lead to a publishable product down the road will receive three points. My hope and expectation is that you will earn a 3 for some of your commentaries, but it is unlikely to happen for every commentary.

+++ Excellent (3 pts.) ++ Very Good (2 pts.) + Good (1 pt.)

|Class Date |Topics |Readings |

|January 17, 2012 |Syllabus, orientation | |

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|January 24, 2012 |Classification |Insel, T.R. (2009). Disruptive insights in psychiatry: Transforming a clinical discipline. |

| | |The Journal of Clinical Investigation, 119, 700-705. |

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| | |Krueger, R.F., & Markon K.E. (2006). Reinterpreting comorbidity: a model-based approach to |

| | |understanding and classifying psychopathology. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology. |

| | |2,111-33. |

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|January 31, 2012 |Mood Disorders |Craighead, W.E., Ritschel, L.A. et al. (2008) Major depressive disorder. In Craighead, |

| | |Miklowitz, & Craighead, Psychopathology: History, diagnosis, and empirical foundations. |

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| | |Miklowitz, D. J., & Johnson, S. (2008) Bipolar disorder. In Craighead, Miklowitz, & |

| | |Craighead, Psychopathology: History, diagnosis, and empirical foundations. |

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|February 7, 2012 |Mood Disorders |Klein, D. N. (2008). Dysthymia and chronic depression. In Craighead, Miklowitz, & |

| | |Craighead, Psychopathology: History, diagnosis, and empirical foundations. |

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| | |Gotlib, I.H., Krasnoperova, E., Yue, D.N., & Joormann, J. (2004). Attentional biases for |

| | |negative interpersonal stimuli in clinical depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 113, |

| | |127-135. |

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| | |Neuroscience lecture |

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|February 14, 2012 |Mood/Anxiety Disorders |Fitzgerald, P.B., Laird, A.R., Maller, J., & Daskalakis, Z.J. (2008). A meta-analytic study |

| | |of changes in brain activation in depression. Human Brain Mapping, 29, 683-695. |

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| | |Moffitt, T.E., Harrington, H., Caspi, A., Kim-Cohen, J., Goldberg, D., Gregory, A.M., & |

| | |Poulton, R. (2007). Depression and generalized anxiety disorder: Cumulative and sequential |

| | |comorbidity in a birth cohort followed prospectively to age 32 years. Archives of General |

| | |Psychiatry, 64, 651-660. |

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|February 21, 2012 |Anxiety Disorders |Mineka, S., & Oehlberg, K. (2008). The relevance of recent developments in classical |

| | |conditioning to understanding the etiology and maintenance of anxiety disorders. Acta |

| | |Psychologica, 127, 567-580. |

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| | |Rowa, K., & Antony, M. (2008). Generalized anxiety disorder. In Craighead, Miklowitz, & |

| | |Craighead, Psychopathology: History, diagnosis, and empirical foundations. |

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|February 28, 2012 |Anxiety Disorders/Catch up |Abramowitz, J. (2008) Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. In Craighead, Miklowitz, & Craighead, |

| | |Psychopathology: History, diagnosis, and empirical foundations. |

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| | |Arch J., & Craske, M. (2008) Panic disorder. In Craighead, Miklowitz, & Craighead, |

| | |Psychopathology: History, diagnosis, and empirical foundations. |

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|March 6, 2012 |1st test | |

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|March 13, 2012 |SPRING BREAK! | |

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|March 20, 2012 |PTSD |Resick, P., Monson, C., & Rizvi, S. (2008). Posttraumatic stress disorder. In Craighead, |

| | |Miklowitz, & Craighead, Psychopathology: History, diagnosis, and empirical foundations. |

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| | |Chapter 1-2: What is Mental Illness? Richard McNally 2011 |

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|March 27, 2012 |Schizophrenia |Walker, E., Mittal, V., Tessner, K., & Trotman, H. Schizophrenia and the psychotic spectrum. |

| | |In Craighead, Miklowitz, & Craighead, Psychopathology: History, diagnosis, and empirical |

| | |foundations. |

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| | |Caspi, A., Moffitt, T.E., Cannon, M., McClay, J., Murray, R., Harrington, H., Taylor, A., |

| | |Arseneault, L., Williams, B., Braithwaite, A., Poulton, R., & Craig, I.W. (2005). Moderation |

| | |of the effect of adolescent-onset cannibis use on adult psychosis by a functional |

| | |polymorphism in the catechol-O-methyltransferase gene: Longitudinal evidence of a gene x |

| | |environment interaction. Biological Psychiatry, 57, 1117-1127. |

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| | |Genetics lecture |

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|April 3, 2012 |Schizophrenia |Hooley, J.M. (2007). Expressed emotion and relapse of psychopathology. Annual Review of |

| | |Clinical Psychology, 3, 329-352. |

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| | |Chapter 3-4: What is Mental Illness? McNally 2011 |

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|April 10, 2012 |Personality disorders |Vitale, J. & Newman, J. (2008). Psychopathy as psychopathology. In Craighead, Miklowitz, & |

| | |Craighead, Psychopathology: History, diagnosis, and empirical foundations. |

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| | |Chapter 5: What is Mental Illness? McNally 2011 |

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|April 17, 2012 |Addiction |Ray, L., Hutchison, K., & Hauser, M. (2008) Alcohol use disorders: History, theory and |

| | |diagnosis. In Craighead, Miklowitz, & Craighead, Psychopathology: History, diagnosis, and |

| | |empirical foundations. |

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| | |Baker, T.B., Piper, M.E., McCarthy, D.E., Majeskie, M.R. &, Fiore, M.C. (2004). Addiction |

| | |motivation reformulated: an affective processing model of negative reinforcement. |

| | |Psychological Review.111, 33-51. |

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| | |Psychopharmacology lecture |

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|April 24, 2012 |Eating disorders |Keel, P.K. & Klump, K.L. (2003). Are eating disorders culture-bound syndromes? Implications |

| | |for conceptualizing their etiology. Psychological Bulletin. 129:747-69. |

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| | |Chapter 6: What is Mental Illness? McNally 2011 |

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|May 1, 2012 |Childhood disorders |Guest speaker: readings TBA |

| | |Chapters 7-8: What is Mental Illness? McNally 2011 |

|May 7, 2012 |Final exam | |

|6-8 pm* | | |

|*unless otherwise decided | |

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