Week 15 · Readings & resources

Week 15 — Readings & Resources

Introduction to Psychology Free sample edition

Your primary reading is Chapter 15 (in this module). Everything below is the optional, go-deeper layer — pick what helps, skip the rest.

How to use this page

This page has 11 items (5 readings and 6 videos). Allow 75–93 minutes for everything. Each group points back to the matching chapter section and class-session segment, so use the full menu when you want more depth, or take the quick path below.

Every video here has captions: turn them on with the CC button in the player. The chapter covers the same ideas in text.

Pick-one quick path (19–22 min total)

① Where is the line between a hard time and a disorder?

Chapter 15, Section “Draw the line: the three D's, in context” · Session 1, Segment 1, “The three D's in context” · Remember: distress, dysfunction, and deviance are weighed together, and context always decides what a pattern means.

Deviance, Dysfunction, Distress, & Disorders (Intro Psych Tutorial #222) — PsychExamReview — a tutorial on the signs psychologists weigh before calling a pattern a possible disorder, and why judging them is harder than it sounds; use it while working through the Week-15 module overview. (video, 8 min) (captions: creator)
Mental Disorders — MedlinePlus — a federal health library page on what mental disorders are, how professionals evaluate them, and the kinds of treatment people receive; read the opening summary. (reading, 6–10 min)
Psychological Disorders: Crash Course Psychology #28 — CrashCourse — a fast tour of how ideas about psychological disorders and their treatment have changed, with the biopsychosocial view at the center; keep the chapter's definitions where the wording differs. (video, 10 min) (captions: creator)

② What do the categories describe, and why do disorders develop?

Chapter 15, Section “Classify conditions, not people: the DSM-5-TR and six categories” · Session 1, Segment 2, “Six categories, no labels” · Remember: a category describes a condition, and a diagnosis takes a trained professional and a full evaluation.

Anxiety Disorders — National Institute of Mental Health — a plain-language federal page on what separates an anxiety disorder from ordinary worry, with the main kinds named; read the opening section. (reading, 5–8 min)
Schizophrenia — National Institute of Mental Health — a federal page describing schizophrenia as a condition that affects thinking, feeling, and behavior, written in careful, non-stigmatizing language; read the first section. (reading, 5–8 min)
The Diathesis Stress Model (Intro Psych Tutorial #225) — PsychExamReview — a short tutorial on how an underlying vulnerability and life stress combine, and where the simple version of the model falls short. This builds on Week 14's work with stress and appraisal. (video, 5 min) (captions: creator)

③ Which treatments help, and what keeps people from care?

Chapter 15, Section “Match the therapy to the idea, and test it” · Session 2, Segment 4, “Five therapy families” · Remember: each therapy grows from one core idea, and experiments with a comparison group show which ones help.

Getting Help - Psychotherapy: Crash Course Psychology #35 — CrashCourse — a tour of the main families of psychotherapy, from psychodynamic to humanistic to behavioral and cognitive; sort each one you hear into the chapter's five families. (video, 11 min) (captions: creator)
What is CBT? | Making Sense of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy — Mind, the mental health charity — a short animation from a mental health charity on how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect in CBT. (video, 4 min) (captions: creator)
The Stigma of Mental Illness: Is it All in Your Head? — Healthcare Triage — a physician-hosted explainer on where mental health stigma comes from and more constructive ways to talk about the brain and body. (video, 5 min) (captions: automatic)
Get the Facts about Mental Health — Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration — a federal page that sets common myths about mental health beside the facts, including the myth that a disorder is a character flaw. (reading, 8–12 min)

Optional one-stop reference (free online reference)

Psychotherapies — National Institute of Mental Health — a federal health agency's reference page on what psychotherapy is and the main approaches; read the sections on what psychotherapy is and its elements, and skip the practical sections on finding care unless you want them. (reading, 8–12 min)

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