7 Green Days until AP Exam!!!
Monday April 22, 2019
Circle: How many people do you know who suffer from a mental illness?
1.You should have completed the Unit on disorders for class on Monday after vacation.
2. Reminder about practice AP Test due Wednesday at beginning of class.
Introduce Abnormal Psychology:
How should we draw the line between normality and disorder?
What perspectives can help us understand psychological disorders?
How and why do clinicians classify psychological disorders?
What are anxiety disorders, and how do they differ from ordinary worries and fears?
What produces the thoughts and feelings that mark anxiety disorders?
What are somatoform disorders?
What are dissociative disorders, and why are they controversial?
What are mood disorders, and what forms do they take?
What patterns of thinking, perceiving, feeling, and behaving characterize schizophrenia?
What causes schizophrenia?
What characteristics are typical of personality disorders?
How many people suffer, or have suffered, from a psychological disorder?
What is it like to have depression?
Activity: Look up rates of mental illness;
In America
Worldwide
In Maine
In Men
In Women
In Teenagers
What are the most prevalent mental illnesses?
What are the rarest mental illnesses?
If we have time:
Activity: Revised Suicide Quiz
Activity: Social Anxiety Thoughts
Activity: Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale
Activity: Measuring Fear
Note cards: We are doing note cards a little differently for this section. Each one is a disorder - name of the disorder on the front; definition and/or symptoms on the back. There are 25 (some are not listed in our book – internet research will be required). Note cards completed are worth a test grade so do them well. This grade will be posted in Application and Process. Meaning that if your grade is low this will have impact. These are due on Friday, April 26th. If you aren't in class on Friday the expectation is that you will show them to me before Friday or if not possible take pictures and share them with me. No exceptions.
- Phobias
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Panic Disorder
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Somatization Disorders
- Hypochondriasis
- Conversion Disorders
- Somatoform Pain Disorders
- Depersonalization
- Dissociative Amnesia
- Dissociative fugue states
- Dissociative Identity Disorder
- Major Depression
- Bipolar Disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Delusional Disorder
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
- Schizoid Personality Disorder
- Antisocial Personality Disorder
- Anorexia
- Bulimia
- Tourette Syndrome
- Munchausen's Syndrome
- Impulse Control Disorders
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.