Circle: At what point would you seek psychological help?  What would have to happen?  How would you know?

Activity: What do you imagine having depression is like?
What is it like to have depression?

Activity: Organize note cards at table and be prepared to defend you choices.

Slideshow: Psychological Disorder Slide Show

                   Treatment of Psychological Disorders

Disorder Questions:

What are the aims and methods of psychoanalysis, and how have they been adapted in psychodynamic therapy?

What are the basic themes of humanistic therapy, such as Rogers’ client-centered approach?

What are the assumptions and techniques of the behavior therapies?

What are the goals and techniques of the cognitive therapies?

What are the aims and benefits of group and family therapy?

Are some therapies more effective than others?

How do culture and values influence the therapist-client relationship?

What are the drug therapies?  What criticisms have been leveled against drug therapies?

How, by caring for their bodies with a healthy life-style, might people find some relief from depression?

What is the rationale for preventive mental health programs?

Turn and Talk  Why?


Activity: Revised Suicide Quiz

Activity: T or F

Activity: Personality Inventory

Activity: Self-Concealment Scale

Note Cards: Each note card should have the term on the front.  Then, on the back you need to A) define the term and B) show application of the term.  This application can sometimes best be expressed as a personal example.  These are due on Tuesday.  They will go in the grade book.

• Psychotherapy
• Free association
• Resistance
• Transference
• Insight therapies
• Client-centered therapy
• Active listening
• Exposure therapies
• Systematic desensitization
• Cognitive-behavior therapy
• Family therapy
• Drug therapy
• Anti-anxiety drugs
• Antidepressant drugs
• Electroconvulsive therapy
• Psychosurgery

  Circle: How many people do you know who suffer from a mental illness?

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

Crash Course: Psychological Disorders
Crash Course: OCD & Anxiety Disorders
Crash Course: Depressive and Bipolar Disorders
Crash Course: Trauma & Addiction
Crash Course: Eating & Body Dysmorphic Disorders
Crash Course: Personality Disorders
Crash Course: Schizophrenia and Dissociative Disorders

Thursday April 1, 2021

Circle: Something you are embarrassed about  having done to fit in?  

Turn and Talk

Motivation Slide Show

The Responsive Brain  14 minute mark


Big Picture- Looking at the diversity of needs that underlie our thoughts, behaviors, and the choices we make.

Discussion: What motivates people to action? Pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain generally promotes our survival and explains much of what we do.  However sometimes the principal is counterproductive.  In your group generate a list of things we do that confirm the seek pleasure and avoid pain principal and a list that but also a list that goes against the principal.  

Can you explain the motivation behind these two eating disorders?
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Where does the behaviorist, evolutionary, cognitive, social cultural, psychoanalytic, biological and humanistic perspective fit into the conversation around motivation?  Is poverty a choice?  Why would anyone want to be poor? Cape Elizabeth versus Rumford? Generational poverty

Activity: T or F

Activity: Sensation-Seeking Scale

Activity: Self Actualization Survey

Activity: Desirability of Control Scale

Research: How to motivate yourself

• Abraham Maslow
• Cannon-Bard Theory
• Drive-Reduction theory
• Emotion
• General adaptation syndrome
• Hierarchy of needs
• Homeostasis
• Incentive
• Instinct
• James-Lange theory
• Motivation
• Stress