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PSY-8164

Week 7 Resources

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Textbook

Abnormal Psychology

Hooley, J. M., Nock, M. K., & Butcher, J. N. (2019). Abnormal Psychology (18th ed.). Pearson Education (US). 

  • Read Chapters 9 and 10. Chapter 9 offers information about eating disorders and obesity. Chapter 10 is about personality disorders.  Both chapters present information about the disorder categories, diagnostic criteria, and treatments.

Articles

Clinical importance of personality difficulties: Diagnostically sub-threshold personality disorders

Karukivi, M., Vahlberg, T., Horjamo, K., Nevalainen, M., & Korkeila, J. (2017). Clinical importance of personality difficulties: Diagnostically sub-threshold personality disorders. BMC Psychiatry, 17(1), 16. 

  • This is an interesting article about the clinical importance of personality difficulties: diagnostically sub-threshold personality disorders.

Established and emerging treatments for eating disorders

Bryson, Douglas, & Schmidt. (2024). Established and emerging treatments for eating disorders. Trends in Molecular Medicine,30(4),392-402. 

  • This is an interesting and current article about eating disorder treatment.

Learning Activity Resources

Disordered Eating Test

(n.d.). Disordered Eating Test. Psychology Today. Retrieved December 1, 2025, from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/tests/health/eating-disorders-and-emotional-eating-test

  • Take this test about disordered eating to gain perspective for this week’s activity. 

A transdiagnostic comparison of enhanced cognitive behavior therapy (CBT-E) and interpersonal therapy in the treatment of eating disorders

Fairburn et al. (2015). A transdiagnostic comparison of enhanced cognitive behavior therapy (CBT-E) and interpersonal therapy in the treatment of eating disorders. Science Direct.

  • The article is about a newer treatment for eating disorders.

Assignment Resource

Student instructions to record audio or video in Brightspace for podcasts or videos. 

  • To record audio or video in D2L, select the Record video option in the assignment submission area to create a video or audio note. You will need your webcam to complete a video. Press the New Recording button when you are ready to record your video or audio note and the Stop Recording when finished.  Please also be sure to select English as the language from the drop-down menu for Audio Language and click on the button to include automatically generated captions.  Then, click the Add button to include the video in your assignment submission.

Optional Resource

Meta-analysis to derive an empirically based set of personality facet criteria for the alternative DSM-5 model for personality disorders

Watters, C. A., Bagby, R. M., & Sellbom, M. (2019). Meta-analysis to derive an empirically based set of personality facet criteria for the alternative DSM-5 model for personality disorders. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 10(2), 97–104.

  • This resource is a meta-analysis about personality disorders, and it should be interesting from a content and research methods perspective.