Introduction to Psychological Disorders
Introduction to Psychological Disorders
The Main Learning Objectives
To define a psychological disorder and recognize the worldwide prevalence of psychological disorders
To understand Psychological Disorders : Biomedical vs. Biopsychosocial Approaches
To explain why it is essential to classify psychological disorders and list the 2 primary sources used to classify psychological disorders
To describe how anxiety affects a person's thoughts and behaviors and identify the different types of anxiety disorders and their characteristic features
To describe and classify patients with somatic symptom disorder and explain their key features
To differentiate between the positive and negative symptoms of psychosis and recognize which symptoms respond well to antipsychotic medications
To discuss etiology, clinical features, classification, and management of schizophrenia
To recognize affect, mood, depressive disorders, bipolar disorders, and dissociative identity disorder
To describe the structural and functional brain abnormalities in schizophrenia & depression, Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease
Methods of Education to Achieve the Objectives
Every video has specific objectives to be achieved
Initially , participant will have pre-test as a part of assessment steps
Participant will watch videos accompanied by images, pdf files , figures or diagrams. At the end , participant must pass post-test to get certification of completion. Participant must follow the learning path in the platform
Evaluation of Scientific Activity by the Participants
By evaluation form after completing course , it will be send to participants. It is an important to know that it will be mandatory to get certification
Speaker
Dr. Tarry Ahuja
PhD in Neuroscience with a specialty in electrophysiology and pharmacology & Carleton University, Ottaw
Course Policy
The course content was reviewed by scientific committee
There is no CME Hours for this kind of teaching content
The course content was designed for pre graduate and recent graduate
