By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain how the sociocultural model is used in therapyDiscuss barriers to mental health services among ethnic minorities

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Distinguish between the various modalities of treatmentDiscuss benefits of group therapy

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Distinguish between psychotherapy and biomedical therapyRecognize various orientations to psychotherapyDiscuss psychotropic medications and recognize which medications are used to treat specific psychological disorders

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Define language and demonstrate familiarity with the components of languageUnderstand how the use of language developsExplain the relationship between language and thinking

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain how intelligence tests are developedDescribe the history of the use of IQ testsDescribe the purposes and benefits of intelligence testing

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Describe problem solving strategiesDefine algorithm and heuristicExplain some common roadblocks to effective problem solving

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Describe how genetics and environment affect intelligenceExplain the relationship between IQ scores and socioeconomic statusDescribe the difference between a learning disability and a developmental disorder

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Define intelligenceExplain the triarchic theory of intelligenceIdentify the difference between intelligence theoriesExplain emotional intelligence

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Describe cognitionDistinguish concepts and prototypesExplain the difference between natural and artificial concepts

This textbook provides standard introduction to psychology course content with a specific emphasis on biological aspects of psychology. This includes more content related to neuroscience methods, the brain and the nervous system. This book can be modified: feel free to add or remove modules to better suit your specific needs.Please note that the publisher requires you to login to access and download the textbooks.

Provides standard introduction to psychology course content with a specific emphasis on social aspects of psychology. This includes expanded content related to social cognition, aggression, attraction and similar topics.

Examines evidence (and lack thereof) regarding when and how an individual's thoughts, feelings, and actions are affected by gender. Topics include: gender development; gender differences in cognition and emotion; gender stereotypes; how gender is related to physical and mental health, sexuality, close relationships, and work.

This course covers theory and evidence on government taxation policy. Topics include tax incidence, optimal tax theory, the effect of taxation on labor supply and savings, taxation and corporate behavior, and tax expenditure policy.

Theory and evidence on government expenditure policy. Topics include the theory of public goods; education; state and local public goods; political economy; redistribution and welfare policy; social insurance programs such as social security and unemployment insurance; and health care policy.

Explores the role of government in the economy, applying tools of basic microeconomics to answer important policy questions such as government response to global warming, school choice by K-12 students, Social Security versus private retirement savings accounts, government versus private health insurance, setting income tax rates for individuals and corporations.

Introducing public health ethics poses two special challenges. First, it is a relatively new field that combines public health and practical ethics. Its unfamiliarity requires considerable explanation, yet its scope and emergent qualities make delineation difficult. Moreover, while the early development of public health ethics occurred in a western context, its reach, like public health itself, has become global. A second challenge, then, is to articulate an approach specific enough to provide clear guidance yet sufficiently flexible and encompassing to adapt to global contexts. Broadly speaking, public health ethics helps guide practical decisions affecting population or community health based on scientific evidence and in accordance with accepted values and standards of right and wrong. In these ways, public health ethics builds on its parent disciplines of public health and ethics. This dual inheritance plays out in the definition the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers of public health ethics: “A systematic process to clarify, prioritize, and justify possible courses of public health action based on ethical principles, values and beliefs of stakeholders, and scientific and other information” (CDC 2011). Public health ethics shares with other fields of practical and professional ethics both the general theories of ethics and a common store of ethical principles, values, and beliefs. It differs from these other fields largely in the nature of challenges that public health officials typically encounter and in the ethical frameworks it employs to address these challenges. Frameworks provide methodical approaches or procedures that tailor general ethical theories, principles, values, and beliefs to the specific ethical challenges that arise in a particular field. Although no framework is definitive, many are useful, and some are especially effective in particular contexts. This chapter will conclude by setting forth a straightforward, stepwise ethics framework that provides a tool for analyzing the cases in this volume and, more importantly, one that public health practitioners have found useful in a range of contexts. For a public health practitioner, knowing how to employ an ethics framework to address a range of ethical challenges in public health—a know-how that depends on practice—is the ultimate take-home message.

A framework of public hygiene and epidemiology is given. Human pathology related to water and sanitation is dealt with, as well as the relation between health and society and environment.

This course will examine public opinion and assess its place in the American political system. The course will emphasize both how citizens' thinking about politics is shaped and the role of public opinion in political campaigns, elections, and government.