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Stress & the Western Collaborative Group Study                    01/03/13
Myer Friendman & Ray Rosenman’s groundbreaking investigation into the relationship between stress and coronary heart disease - in Key Study format

Johannsson’s Swedish Saw Mill Workers
G Johansson et al’s pioneering research into how to measure stress in the workplace - in Key Study format

The 3 Faces of Eve
The story of Corbett Thigpen & Hervey Cleckley’s recognition and treatment of a Multiple Personality sufferer - in Key Study format

Neuro-Linguistic Programme
Article outlining and evaluating the NLP approach to therapy

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Dissociative Identity Disorder or Multiple Personality Disorder?

Article looking at MPD, DID and the alleged differences between them from an Integrated SocioPsychology perspective

Social Skills Training
Article explaining what Social Skills Training is and how it works with different mental health issues

Sources of Stress
Mind map exploring the relationship between stressors and the fight-or-flight response

Family Therapy
Article describing how Family Therapy works and who it works best with

Token Economies
Article outlining and evaluating this Behavioural Therapy

Systematic Desensitisation
Article outlining and evaluating this highly effective form of Behavioural Therapy

Aversion Therapy
Article outlining and evaluating this controversial form of Behavioural Therapy

Cognitive-Behavioural Theory
Article describing and evaluating CBT

Mood Disorders

Diagnosis of Depression
Article looking at the criteria for diagnosing Depression, with an emphasis on cognitive factors

Psychopathology - Treatments

Cognitive Therapies
Mind map outlining and evaluating the main forms of Cognitive therapies

Schizophrenia

Stress & Stress Management

Depression - Biological Considerations
Mind map exploring Biological viewpoints on the nature, characteristics and causes of Depression

Depression - Psychological Considerations
Mind map exploring Psychological viewpoints on the nature, characteristics and causes of Depression

Evolutionary Explanations of Depression
Mind map putting forward Evolutionary accounts of Depression

Learned Helplessness
Feature by Paul Kenyon linking 'Learned Helplessness' in dogs to Depression in humans

Aspects of Bipolar Disorder
In-depth feature on the nature and characteristics of this illness

Behavioural Therapies
Mind map outlining and evaluating the main forms of Behavioural therapies

Chemotherapy Considerations
Mind map outlining and evaluating drug therapies

ECT (Electro-Convulsive Therapy)
Mind map outlining and evaluating this form of treatment

Psychosurgery
Mind map outlining and evaluating this highly-controversial approach to treating Psychpopathology

Evaluating Therapies
Mind map considering the effectiveness of different types of therapy and the factors which influence effectiveness

History of Schizophrenia
Article on the development of Schizophrenia as a distinct concept in mental illness

Diagnosis and Presentation of Schizophrenia
Article on the criteria for diagnosis of Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia
Mind map outlining the types, variations and incidence of Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia: Diagnostic Issues and Controversies
Article exploring some of the difficulties and problems associated with diagnosing Schizophrenia

Causes of Schizophrenia
A short article exploring some of the latest thinking on the causes of Schizophrenia

The Schizophrenic Brain
Graphics depicting the symptoms of Schizophrenia in the brain and the effects of neurotransmitter fluctuations

Evolutionary Explanations of Schizophrenia
Mind map putting forward Evolutionary explanations for this condition

What is Stress?                     2712/12
Mind map exploring the nature or stress and how stressors produce the fight-or-flight response

Stress & Illness
Mind map considering the relationship between chronic stress and serious illnesses such as cancer and chronic heart disease

Stress Vulnerability
Mind map looking at factors which can make you more likely to experience chronic stress

Stress & Individual Differences
Mind map considering how factors such as class, ethnicity, culture and gender can make you more or less likely to experience the effects of stress

Life Changes & Stress
The investigation by Richard Rahe, J L Mahan & R J Arthur to test Thomas Holmes & Rahe’s Social Readjustment Rating Scale - in Key Study format

Work-Related Stress
Mind map demonstrating that a number of factors can make the workplace dangerous for your health!

Humanistic Therapies
Article providing a general overview of Humanistic therapies

Person-Centred Therapy
Article exploring Carl Rogers’ approach to therapy

Stress Management
Mind map outlining the key methods of helping people deal with their stress experiences

Multiple Personality Disorder & Dissociative Identity Disorder

What’s in a Name? Dual Personality...Multiple Personality...Dissociative Identity Disorder...
Feature by Ralph Allison on his campaign to have DID and MPD recognised as clinically different conditions

Transactional Analysis
Eric Berne’s Parent-Child-Adult template for analysing roles in relationships

Social Support, Self-Esteem & Depression
Classic research by G W Brown et al into Depression amongst women in North London - set out in Key Study format

Stress & the Immune System

Description and critique of Janice Kiecolt-Glaser et al’s 1984 investigation into the relationship between stress and immune system functioning - presented in Key Study format

Marmot’s Stressed Civil Servants
Michael Marmot et al’s massive investigation into the causes of workplace stress amongst London civil servants - in Key Study format