This is the home page for Abnormal Psychology. You will find information
you need to complete the Abnormal Psychology internet course on this page.
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Expectations and Format
This distance learning
course is provided by the University of Houston. It will be conducted entirely
via the internet on a one-to-one basis between student and professor. It
is possible that we will have some chat sessions later in the semester
if all stystems are working well, but they will not be required.
Abnormal psychology
as a topic is extremely broad and it has been trimmed, mainly by the contents
of the textbook we will use. My own emphasis for the course is in line
with the emphasis of the textbook. The emphasis will be on the scientific
study of the forms of human behavior and experience that we call abnormal.
This means that many forms of psychology will not been considered because
they lack standing in the scientific community. The scientific approach
is the one taken by faculty in nearly all universities in America if not
in the entire world. It has been enormously sucessful in leading to the
discovery of the causes of abnormal behaviors and to effective treatments.
The field has changed almost entirely in the last thirty years.
See more on the format
and expectations in the Course Syllabus below.
Directions
for Sending Papers via E-mail
Contact the instructor, Dale L. Johnson:dljohnson@uh.edu