Earn these career-relevant skills in weeks, not years.
- Identify historical events and milestones that show the progression of the treatment of mental illness.
- Identify the tenets of the perspectives of abnormal behavior and mental illness.
- Describe the relationship between assessment, diagnosis, and treatment in abnormal psychology.
- Identify behavioral features of clinical disorders related to development, stress, and anxiety.
- Determine key factors related to the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder.
- Distinguish between features related to post-traumatic stress disorder and other trauma and stressor related disorders.
- Differentiate among the behavioral features of clinical disorders related to mood.
- Identify risk factors, warning signs, and methods of prevention for suicide.
- Examine behavioral features of schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
- Describe the physiological and behavioral development and progression of schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
- Explain the etiology of a mental disorder through a perspective of abnormal psychology.
- Determine the prevalence of a specific mental disorder in society.
- Describe gender and cultural differences and considerations of a specific mental disorder.
- Describe treatment options for a specific mental disorder.