AQA Specification – Psychopathology

• Definitions of abnormality, including deviation from social norms, failure to function adequately and deviation from ideal mental health and statistical infrequency.
• The behavioural, emotional and cognitive characteristics of phobias.
• The behavioural, emotional and cognitive characteristics of depression.
• The behavioural, emotional and cognitive characteristics of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
• The Behavioural approach to explaining and treating phobias: the two-process model including classical and operant conditioning.
• The Behavioural approach to treating phobias – systematic desensitisation including relaxation and the use of hierarchy; flooding.
• The Biological Approach to Explaining OCD – Genetic and Neural Explanations)
• Biological Therapies (drugs) for Treating OCD.
• The Cognitive Approach of Explaining Depression– (Beck’s Negative Traid and Ellis’ ABC Model).
• The Cognitive Approach to Treating Depression.