DABATEM 2023-2024 Syllabus
Pre-course optional reading material
Book 1 – Learning and Memory from Brain to Behaviour
Mark A. Gluck, Eduardo Mercado, Catherine E. Myers, 2016 (3th edition)
Introductory Module
Chapter 1: Psychology of learning and memory
Learning Module
Chapter 3 – Habituation, sensitization, and familiarization
Chapter 4 – Classical conditioning
Chapter 5 – Operant conditioning
Chapter 6 – Generalization, discrimination learning, and concept formation
Book 2 – Abnormal Psychology
James N. Butcher, Jill M. Hooley, Susan M. Mineka, 2013 (13th edition)
Chapter 1 – Abnormal psychology: an overview
Chapter 2 – Historical and contemporary views of abnormal behaviour
Chapter 3 – Causal factors and viewpoints
Chapter 5 – Stress and physical and mental health
Chapter 6 – Panic, anxiety, obsessions, and their disorders
Chapter 7 – Mood disorders and suicide
Chapter 8 – Somatic symptom and dissociative disorders
Week 1 – Introduction to Theoretical Framework
Reading List
- The role of uncontrollable and unpredictable stress in post-traumatic stress responses in torture survivors (Metin Başoğlu & Susan Mineka, Torture and its consequences: Current treatment approaches, 1992)
- A contemporary learning theory perspective on the etiology of anxiety disorders: It’s not what you thought it was (Susan Mineka & Richard E. Zinbarg, 2006)
Week 2 – A learning theory formulation of earthquake trauma
Reading List
- Chapter 1 – A learning theory formulation of earthquake trauma. (A Mental Healthcare Model for Mass Trauma Survivors – Control-Focused Behavioural Treatment of Earthquake, War, Torture Trauma, Metin Başoğlu et al, 2011)
Week 3 – Review and Discussion of Evidence Base
Reading List
- Başoğlu et al (2001). A study of the validity of a Screening Instrument for Traumatic Stress in Earthquake Survivors in Turkey. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 14, 491–509.
- Başoğlu et al (2002). Traumatic stress responses in earthquake
survivors in Turkey. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 15, 269–276. - Livanou, M., Başoğlu, M. et al (2002). Traumatic stress responses in treatment- seeking earthquake survivors in Turkey. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 190, 816–823.
- Başoğlu et al (2003). A single session with an earthquake simulator for traumatic stress in earthquake survivors. American Journal of Psychiatry, 160, 788–790.
- Şalcıoğlu, E., Başoğlu, M. et al (2003). Long- term psychological outcome for non-treatment-seeking earthquake
survivors in Turkey. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 191, 154–160. - Başoğlu et al (2003). A brief behavioural treatment of chronic post- traumatic stress disorder in earthquake survivors: Results from an open clinical trial. Psychological Medicine, 33, 647–654.
- Başoğlu et al (2004). Prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder and comorbid depression in earthquake survivors in Turkey: An epidemiological study. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 17, 133–141.
- Başoğlu, M., et al (2005). Single-session behavioral treatment of earthquake-related posttraumatic stress disorder: A randomized waiting-list controlled trial. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 18, 1–11.
- Şalcıoğlu, E., Başoğlu, M. et al (2007). Post- traumatic stress disorder and comorbid depression among survivors of the 1999 earthquake in Turkey. Disasters, 31, 115–129.
- Başoğlu, et al (2007). A randomized controlled study of single-session behavioural treatment of earthquake-related posttraumatic stress disorder using an earthquake simulator. Psychological Medicine, 37, 203–213.
- Başoğlu, M., et al (2009). Single- case experimental studies of a self-help manual for traumatic stress in earthquake survivors. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 40, 50–58.
Week 4 – A learning theory formulation of torture and war trauma
Reading List
- Chapter 2 – A learning theory formulation of torture and war trauma (A Mental Healthcare Model for Mass Trauma Survivors – Control-Focused Behavioural Treatment of Earthquake, War, Torture Trauma, Metin Başoğlu et al, 2011)
Week 5 – Review and Discussion of Evidence Base
Reading List
- Başoğlu et al (1994). Psychological effects of torture: A comparison of tortured with nontortured political activists in Turkey. American Journal of Psychiatry, 151, 76–81.
- Başoğlu, M., et al (1994). Factors related to long-term traumatic stress responses in survivors of torture in Turkey. Journal of the American Medical Association, 272, 357–363.
- Başoğlu, M., et al (1996). Appraisal of self, social environment, and state authority as a possible mediator of posttraumatic stress disorder in tortured political activists. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 105, 232–236.
- Başoğlu, M., Mineka, S., et al (1997). Psychological preparedness for trauma as a protective factor in survivors of
torture. Psychological Medicine, 27, 1421–1433. - Başoğlu, M., et al (2005). Psychiatric and cognitive effects of war in former Yugoslavia: Association of lack of redress for trauma and posttraumatic stress reactions. Journal of the American Medical Association, 294, 580–590.
- Başoğlu, M., et al (2007). Torture vs other cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment: Is the distinction real or apparent? Archives of General Psychiatry, 64, 277–285.
- Başoğlu, M. (2009). A multivariate contextual analysis of torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatments:
Implications for an evidence-based definition of torture. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 79, 135–145. - Chapter 1: A theory and evidence-based appraoch to the definition of torture (Metin Başoğlu, Torture and its Definition in International Law: An Interdisciplinary Approach, 2017)
- Chapter 3: A battle for control: resisting torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment at Guantanamo (Alexa Koenig, Torture and its Definition in International Law: An Interdisciplinary Approach, 2017)
Week 6 – Behavioral Assessment
Reading List
- Chapter 3. Assessment (A Mental Healthcare Model for Mass Trauma Survivors – Control-Focused Behavioural Treatment of Earthquake, War, Torture Trauma, Metin Başoğlu et al, 2011)
- Appendix A: Questionnaires (A Mental Healthcare Model for Mass Trauma Survivors – Control-Focused Behavioural Treatment of Earthquake, War, Torture Trauma, Metin Başoğlu et al, 2011)
Screening Instrument for Traumatic Stress in Earthquake Survivors (SITSES)
Screening Instrument for Traumatic Stress in Earthquake Survivors-Child Version (SITSES-C)
Fear and Avoidance Questionnaire
Depression Rating Scale
Screening Instrument for Traumatic Stress in Survivors of War (SITSOW)
Global Improvement Scale – Self (GIS-S)
Work / Social Adjustment Scale (self-rated)
Work / Social Adjustment Scale (assessor-rated)
Sense of Control Scale
Grief Assessment Scale
Behavior Checklist for Grief
Week 7 – Control-Focused Behavioral Treatment
Reading List
Book: Mental Healthcare Model for Mass Trauma Survivors – Control-Focused Behavioural Treatment of Earthquake, War, Torture Trauma, Metin Başoğlu et al, 2011
- Chapter 4. Control-focused behavioural treatment
- Chapter 6. An overview of treatment efficacy and mechanisms of recovery
- Chapter 7. A mental healthcare model for earthquake survivors
Articles
- Başoğlu, M., et al (1994). Alprazolam and exposure for panic disorder with agoraphobia: Attribution of improvement to medication predicts subsequent relapse. British Journal of Psychiatry, 164, 652–659.
- Başoğlu, M., et al (1994). Relationship of panic, anticipatory anxiety, agoraphobia and global improvement in panic disorder with agoraphobia treated with alprazolam and exposure. British Journal of Psychiatry, 164, 647–652.
Week 8 – Review of Evidence Base of Control-Focused Behavioral Treatment
Reading List
- Başoğlu, M., et al (2003). A brief behavioural treatment of chronic post- traumatic stress disorder in earthquake survivors: Results from an open clinical trial. Psychological Medicine, 33, 647–654.
- Başoğlu, M., et al (2003). A single session with an earthquake simulator for traumatic stress in earthquake survivors. American Journal of Psychiatry, 160, 788–790.
- Başoğlu, M., et al (2005). Single-session behavioral treatment of earthquake-related posttraumatic stress disorder: A randomized waiting-list controlled trial. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 18, 1–11.
- Başoğlu, M., et al (2007). A randomized controlled study of single-session behavioural treatment of earthquake-related posttraumatic stress disorder using an earthquake simulator. Psychological Medicine, 37, 203–213.
- Başoğlu, M., et al (2009). Single- case experimental studies of a self-help manual for traumatic stress in earthquake survivors. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 40, 50–58.
Week 9 – Delivery of CFBT – Review of Treatment Delivery Manuals
Reading List
Book: Mental Healthcare Model for Mass Trauma Survivors – Control-Focused Behavioural Treatment of Earthquake, War, Torture Trauma, Metin Başoğlu et al, 2011
- Appendix B: Helping people recover from earthquake trauma Control-focused behavioral treatment delivery manual
- Appendix C: Recovering from earthquake trauma: A self-help manual
Week 10 – Prolonged Grief
Reading List
Book: Mental Healthcare Model for Mass Trauma Survivors – Control-Focused Behavioural Treatment of Earthquake, War, Torture Trauma, Metin Başoğlu et al, 2011
- Chapter 5. Assessment and treatment of prolonged grief
Week 11 – A critical review of current psychotherapies in psychological trauma
Reading List
Book: Mental Healthcare Model for Mass Trauma Survivors – Control-Focused Behavioural Treatment of Earthquake, War, Torture Trauma, Metin Başoğlu et al, 2011
- Chapter 8. Issues in care of mass trauma survivors
- Chapter 9. Issues in rehabilitation of war and torture survivors
Articles
- Başoğlu, M. (1993). Prevention of torture and care of survivors: An integrated approach. Journal of the American Medical Association, 270, 606–611.
- Başoğlu, M. and Marks, I. (1988). Torture. British Medical Journal, 297, 1423–1424.
- Başoğlu, M. (2006). Rehabilitation of traumatised refugees and survivors of torture: After almost two decades we are still not using evidence-based treatments. British Medical Journal, 333, 1230–1231.
- Responses to the article: https://www.bmj.com/content/333/7581/1230/rapidresponses