Applications: clinical, health and organisational psychology – Psychology notes (Cambridge A Level)

Definitions of abnormality (statistical, deviation from social norms, failure to function, ideal mental health); classification (DSM and ICD); disorders: schizophrenia, depression and bipolar disorder, anxiety and phobias, obsessive–compulsive disorder, impulse-control disorders – characteristics, explanations (biological, cognitive, behavioural) and treatments (drug therapy, CBT, exposure therapies).