Friday June 6th, 2014

Circle:What do you do when your not feeling your best mentally?

True or False Handout

Walking Activity: How are you feeling?

On a 1 to 10 scale rate how you are feeling right now.  1 being extremely and 10 being not at all.

Stressed

Awake

Alert

Focused

Content

Happy

Thursday May 29th, 2014

Circle: Whats worse, thinking about punishment or the punishment itself?

Collect Homework: Reaction to mediation

Meditation Debrief: Rest of your day.  Classes.  Cafeteria.  Conversations.  Home.  Sleep.  Mental state.

Stress: Word Worksheet

True or False

Handout: How stressed out are  you?

Tuesday May 27th 2014

Circle: What will you remember about this class?

Collect Books

Collect Final Exam:  One page ramble on what you have learned about psychology.  It can be about yourself personally or the  people around you.  What did you find  interesting about Psychology?  What do you wish you learned more about?  How has taking this class changed the way you see yourself or others?  This should just be your thoughts.  You can look over the website and scroll back if you need to remind yourself about what we did this semester.

Mindfulness:  What is it?  The idea behind it?  Who is Jon Kabot Zinn?

Mindfulness exercise:

Thursday May 22, 2014

Final Exam/Book Returned

Circle: What is stressing you out?

Stress: What is it?

Stress: True or False

Mind/Body Connection

Hypnosis Exercise

Monday April 28th 2014

Circle: Best thing you did over vacation besides sleeping and not going to school?

Topic Proposals: What have you decided on for a topic?

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.7

Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem. 
Questions for Disorder Presentation:
What is it?
What is the definition of the disorder?
How does it affect everyday life?

How are you connected to it?

What does it stop you from doing?

What are the causes?

How is it treated? Drugs/Therapy?

When was it discovered or recognized?

Does it have multiple forms?

What are the symptoms?

What are the physical effects?

How many people are diagnosed with this disorder per year?  How common?

Can it be prevented?

What are the disorders causes?

What is it like to live with the disorder on daily basis?

Are there companion disorders?

What are the symptoms?

Can it be treated with medication?

Is it curable?

Who is at risk?  Demographics? Statistics?

How is it diagnosed?

How is it categorized? Is it biological, cognitive, social cultural, behavioral, psychoanalytic?

Is it harmful? Fatal?

How can you help someone with it?

What are the different types?

Does it always require medication?

How does it affect family or people around them?

Is it hereditary?  Or brought on by experience?

Who is susceptible to this disorder?  Some more than others?

What is the frequency of symptoms?

Is it recognized by the DSM-VI?

How is it diagnosed?

Is it possible to live a productive life with the disorder with treatment?

Are there side effect from treatment/medication?

Library: We will be going to the library to work on our project.  Ms. Lance will be doing a brief presentation about putting together a slide show.  She will also be going over websites to use.

Homework:  Module 28 and 29 are due on Friday.  This should be in Tri-Fold form.

Thursday April 17, 2014

Circle Question: What is the best piece of advice you gave your teenage son or daughter?

Activity: Hand out letters.  What are the similarities? Did you find any good advice?  Do you wish your own parents followed some of the advice in the letters?  Did they miss on any of the advice?


Introduction to Disorders
MUDA
Maladaptive or Destructive to oneself or others
Unjustifiable-without rational basis
Disturbing-troublesome to other people
Atypical-so different to violate a norm

Breakdown of how disorders are classified
Dissociative, Schizophrenia and Personality Disorders
Anxiety and Mood Disorders

Create Questions to be answered in Presentation


Zimbardo Video

Bio-psycho-social activity

27-4

Homework: Choose a disorder, make sure it is recognized by the DSM-V and look up bring a brief definition of the disorder.

Homework After Vacation:
Due Wednesday  Module 28 Tri Fold
Due Friday Module 29 Tri Fold

Tuesday April 15, 2014

Circle: Why is it so hard to be honest with people about what we fear?  Would the world be a better place if we did share?

Check off homework: I am reaction

Reaction to  the I AM activity.

Letter to your teenage self: You will be writing a letter to your son or daughter that you will not see until they are 18.  You have volunteered to travel to Mars and the trip lasts 18 years.  Your son, if you are a boy, or your daughter if you are a female,  will need some advice about what its like to be a teenager from their same sex parent.  The only way you will be able to communicate with him is through a letter that you wrote at their birth and will open on their 13th birthday.  What advice would you give them about school, teachers, sex, relationships, peer pressure etc?  This letter should be addressed directly to them.  Please give them a name.  This will be finished for homework.

Introduce Mental Disorders:

True or False

27-1

Bio-psycho-social activity

27-4