AP Psychology Unit 5 Podcast: Mental and Physical Health

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Stress and GAS, coping strategies, positive psychology, psychological disorders, therapy types, and biomedical treatments.

🎙 Episode 5 · 24:12

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Health psychology — how psychology, behavior, and culture affect physical health
Stress responses: fight-or-flight; HPA axis; Selye's general adaptation syndrome
Coping strategies: problem-focused vs. emotion-focused; tend-and-befriend; social support
Positive psychology: subjective well-being, gratitude, resilience, and flow
Defining psychological disorders: the 4 Ds; DSM-5-TR classification
Biopsychosocial model and diathesis-stress model
Anxiety disorders: GAD, panic disorder, specific phobias, social anxiety
OCD and related disorders; PTSD and trauma-related disorders
Depressive disorders: major depressive disorder; bipolar I and II
Schizophrenia: positive and negative symptoms; dopamine hypothesis
Dissociative and personality disorders
Psychological therapies: psychodynamic, humanistic (client-centered), behavior therapy, CBT
Biomedical treatments: SSRIs, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, ECT, TMS
Therapeutic alliance and outcome research