Health and Clinical Psychology
This playlist brings together several courses on topics in health and clinical psychology, including anxiety, depression, OCD, schizophrenia, eating behaviour and stress.
What this playlist includes:
63 lectures across 12 courses.
All resources designed and delivered by university academics and researchers.
Self-marking quizzes for all lectures, as well as an end-of-topic quiz.
Reading lists, essay questions and extension activities.
Courses and Lectures
1. Psychopathology – Contextualising Abnormality
Dr Ayoub Bouguettaya
Birmingham University
Birmingham University
1.1. Abnormality – 09:44
1.2. Phobias – 07:15
1.3. Learning Theory Explanations for Phobias – 08:20
1.4. Behavioural Explanations and Treatments for Pho... – 09:53
1.5. The Language of Psychopaths – 08:51
1.6. Summary – 06:56
2. Psychopathology – Understanding Mental Ill Health
Dr Jude Stevenson
Glasgow University
Glasgow University
2.1. Abnormality – 09:49
2.2. Diagnostic Labelling of Mental Health – 09:24
2.3. On Being Sane In Insane Places – 05:03
2.4. Historical Views on Mental Health – 16:12
3. Biopsychology – From Structure to Function
Dr Ashok Jansari
Goldsmiths, University of London
Goldsmiths, University of London
3.1. The Nervous System – 06:28
3.2. Brain Specialisation – 06:51
3.3. Brain Imaging – 09:47
3.4. Biological Rhythms – 07:12
3.5. Delayed Gratification – 07:31
4. Memory – Disorders and Brain Damage
Dr Ashok Jansari
Goldsmiths, University of London
Goldsmiths, University of London
4.1. Reconstructive Memory – 09:34
4.2. Individual Differences in Memory – 08:10
4.3. Brain Damage and Memory – 07:45
4.4. Dementias – 09:21
5. Stress
Dr Sarita Robinson
University of Central Lancashire
University of Central Lancashire
5.1. What Is Stress? – 10:42
5.2. How the Body Responds to Stress – 07:02
5.3. Impact on Health and Well-Being – 10:56
5.4. Measuring Stress – 13:38
5.5. Managing and Coping with Stress – 14:27
6. Psychopathology – The Impacts of Stress
Dr Livia Tomova
Cambridge University
Cambridge University
6.1. The Physiology of Stress – 08:35
6.2. Identifying and Measuring Stressors – 11:29
6.3. Differences in the Stress Response – 11:40
6.4. Coping with Stress – 13:04
6.5. Stress and Cognition – 08:13
7. Anxiety
Prof. Femi Oyebode
Birmingham University
Birmingham University
7.1. What Are Emotions? – 04:57
7.2. What Is Anxiety? – 07:32
7.3. Phobias – 05:29
7.4. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder – 07:41
7.5. Stress-Related Disorders – 09:11
8. Depression
Prof. Linda Gask
Manchester University
Manchester University
8.1. Symptoms and Diagnosis – 09:10
8.2. Biological Models and Treatments – 08:29
8.3. The Psychodynamic Model – 03:45
8.4. Cognitive Models and Treatments – 12:46
8.5. Learned Helplessness – 05:24
8.6. The Social Approach – 05:31
9. Schizophrenia
Mr Kevin Silber
Derby University
Derby University
9.1. What is Schizophrenia? – 10:56
9.2. Biological Causes – 13:40
9.3. Psychological Causes – 09:12
9.4. Drug Therapy – 10:33
9.5. Psychological Treatments – 10:46
9.6. The Interactionist Approach – 08:37
10. OCD
Dr Emma Sharpe
Derby University
Derby University
10.1. What is OCD? – 02:32
10.2. Characteristics – 06:22
10.3. Biological Explanations – 06:44
10.4. Drug Therapy – 06:56
10.5. Psychological Therapy – 06:29
10.6. Summary – 02:35
11. Eating Behaviour
Prof. Jane Ogden
Surrey University
Surrey University
11.1. Food Preferences – 10:49
11.2. The Weight Concern Model – 08:58
11.3. Explanations for Anorexia – 08:52
11.4. Explanations for Obesity – 09:47
11.5. Treatments for Anorexia – 08:45
11.6. Treatments for Obesity – 10:39
12. Addiction – Smoking
Professor Marcus Munafò
Bristol University
Bristol University
12.1. What is Addiction? – 06:28
12.2. Internal Addiction Factors – 07:15
12.3. External Addiction Factors – 05:15
12.4. Internal Mechanisms of Addiction – 04:42
12.5. External Mechanisms of Addiction – 06:32
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