Topic guide · Mental health and intervention / Methods, evidence and reproducibility
How is evidence for depression treatment assessed?
Connect the clinical question, comparison, outcome and guideline judgement without choosing treatment for an individual.
Topic guide · Mental health and intervention / Methods, evidence and reproducibility
What can a psychiatric diagnosis explain—and what can it not?
Separate description, assessment, causal hypotheses and research dimensions.
Topic guide · Mental health and intervention / Learning, memory and education / Emotion, motivation and sleep
How are fear, avoidance and anxiety connected?
Connect fear learning and avoidance with wider clinical and developmental questions.
Topic guide · Emotion, motivation and sleep / Mental health and intervention / Methods, evidence and reproducibility
How do researchers study stress and health?
Separate a stressor, a measured response and an outcome, then examine the study design linking them.
Topic guide · Methods, evidence and reproducibility / Mental health and intervention
What makes a therapy trial informative?
Work through comparison, assignment, outcomes, masking and generalisation using an original study-design exercise.
Lectures and explanations
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Open Yale Courses · Source-checked annotation
Lecture 19 - What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part II
Discusses definitions of mental illness and several diagnostic groupings before introducing therapy.
NIMH · Source-checked annotation
Director's Innovation Speaker Series: Youth Suicidal Behaviors: Where Do We Go From Here
Arielle Sheftall discusses research on suicidal behaviour among young people, including preteen trends and racial disparities.
Open Yale Courses · Source-checked annotation
Lecture 20 - The Good Life: Happiness
Asks how treatment efficacy can be assessed, then turns to happiness, cultural variation and people's predictions about future satisfaction.
Open Yale Courses · Source-checked annotation
Lecture 13 - Eating Disorders and Obesity (Guest Lecture by B. Timothy Walsh)
Timothy Walsh discusses eating disorders, clinical complications, diagnostic problems and explanations involving interacting vulnerabilities.
Open Yale Courses · Source-checked annotation
Lecture 6 - Culture and the Remarkable Plasticity of Eating (Presentation by Ashley Gearhardt)
Combines Ashley Gearhardt's presentation of an addiction model of eating with Kelly Brownell's discussion of cultural food practices.
NIMH · Source-checked annotation
Director’s Innovation Speaker Series: Youth-Centered Approaches to Media Research
Jenny Radesky and Megan Moreno discuss approaches that include young people’s perspectives in digital-media research.
Open Yale Courses · Source-checked annotation
Lecture 18 - What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part I (Guest Lecture by Professor Susan Nolen-Hoeksema)
Susan Nolen-Hoeksema introduces clinical identification and treatment with particular attention to mood disorders, including depression and bipolar disorder.
MIT OpenCourseWare · Source-checked annotation
Lecture 21: Psychopathology II
Discusses psychological and medication approaches to treatment, the testing of psychotherapy, and the lecture's examples of depression and ADHD.
MIT OpenCourseWare · Source-checked annotation
Lecture 20: Psychopathology I
Introduces the history of psychiatric explanations and treatment, the purposes and consequences of diagnostic labels, and the difficulties of classifying distress.
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Lecture 19: Stress
Distinguishes acute and chronic stressors and discusses psychological anticipation using an experimental example of waiting for an unpleasant stimulus.
NPTEL — National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning
Lec 23 : Sustainable happiness model
“Lec 23 : Sustainable happiness model” is listed in Psychology Of Stress, Health And Well-Being. Its place in the course provides the learning context; an individual account of the lecture's content has not yet been checked.
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Lec 27: Classification of psychological disorders
“Lec 27: Classification of psychological disorders” is listed in Foundations of Psychology: Concepts and Applications. Its place in the course provides the learning context; an individual account of the lecture's content has not yet been checked.
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Lec 14: Thinking and Problem solving
“Lec 14: Thinking and Problem solving” is listed in Foundations of Psychology: Concepts and Applications. Its place in the course provides the learning context; an individual account of the lecture's content has not yet been checked.
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Lec 2: Research Methods in Psychology
“Lec 2: Research Methods in Psychology” is listed in Foundations of Psychology: Concepts and Applications. Its place in the course provides the learning context; an individual account of the lecture's content has not yet been checked.
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Lec 5: Sensation: Basic Processes
“Lec 5: Sensation: Basic Processes” is listed in Foundations of Psychology: Concepts and Applications. Its place in the course provides the learning context; an individual account of the lecture's content has not yet been checked.
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Lec 33 : Meaning in life and well-being
“Lec 33 : Meaning in life and well-being” is listed in Psychology Of Stress, Health And Well-Being. Its place in the course provides the learning context; an individual account of the lecture's content has not yet been checked.