Advanced Placement Psychology with Mr. Duez
Unit 6 - Psychological Disorders - Treatment & Social Psychology
WEEK AT A GLANCE:MON: Intro to Psych Disorders: Case of Royce White NBA with Anxity - Anxiety Disorders (GAD, Phobic, PTSD, Panic, OCD)
TUE: Psych Disorders Finish Anxiety Disorders; Psych Disorders: Dissociative
WED/THU: Psych Disorders: Finish Dissociate; Psych Disorders: Mood; Psych Disorders: Schizophrenia
FRI: Psych Disorders: Finish Schizophrenia; Psych Disorders: Personality
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Assignments:
Monday, March 27 Quiz CH 15 "Psychological Disorders"
Monday, April 3rd Quiz CH 16 "Treatments for Psych Disorders"
Wed/Thu, April 5th & 6th - FRQ Timed Writing
1. The (DSM) Diagnosis and Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders is the handbook used by mental health professionals to diagnose psychiatric disorders.
2. There are many types of disorders, but they all involve debilitation that makes routine life situations difficult.
3. Schizophrenia is not dissociate identity disorder. It is a disorder that involves a break with reality and auditory hallucinations.
4. Personality disorders are the most difficult disorders to diagnose and treat. The most common treatment is medication (most have side effects).
5. Medication is effective as a treatment, but it is often combined with a form of “talk therapy” to provide a more complete therapeutic technique.
6. Behavioral and cognitive therapists are very popular forms of “talk therapy.”
7. Freudian therapy, though well known, is not utilized much anymore.
Essential Questions:
- What are the various approaches to dealing with abnormal behavior, psychological disorders?
- Is all psych disorder caused by biological issues? Can they be solved medically?
Monday, March 20, 2017
Quote: "We are masters of the unsaid words, and slaves to those we let slip out." - Winston Churchill
1. DO NOW: True or False? - People with psychological disorders typically exhibit highly bizarre behavior.
2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Introduction to Unit 6 - Psych Disorders & Abnormal Behavior. Discuss the Case of Royce White
Assignments:
Monday, March 27 Quiz CH 15 "Psychological Disorders"
Monday, April 3rd Quiz CH 16 "Treatments for Psych Disorders"
Wed/Thu, April 5th & 6th - FRQ Timed Writing
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Quote: "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." - Adolf Hitler
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: What makes up a psychological disorder?
2. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Psych Disorders & Treatment, continued.
The 6 Categories of Psych Disorder, Videos portraying each, discussion of types of therapies that would be appropriate.
Psych Disorders; Types - Anxiety (GAD, Phobic, Panic)
PTSD & Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder have been changed in the DSM-V
3. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Psych Disorders: Dissociative
Assignments:
Monday, March 27 Quiz CH 15 "Psychological Disorders"
Monday, April 3rd Quiz CH 16 "Treatments for Psych Disorders"
Wed/Thu, April 5th & 6th - FRQ Timed Writing
Wednesday, March 22 & Thursday, March 23, 2017
Quote: "We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender... " - Winston Churchill
Agenda:
1. DO NOW:
2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Psych Disorders: Finish Dissociate
Psych Disorders: Mood
Psych Disorders: Schizophrenia
3. Crash Course Psychology: Crash Course: Schizophrenia & Dissociative Disorders
Assignments:
Monday, March 27 Quiz CH 15 "Psychological Disorders"
Monday, April 3rd Quiz CH 16 "Treatments for Psych Disorders"
Wed/Thu, April 5th & 6th - FRQ Timed Writing
Friday, March 24, 2017
Quote: "Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds." - J. Robert Oppenheimer, Hindu Scripture, the Bhagavad Gita
1. DO NOW: Mood Disorder or Schizophrenia?
2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Psych Disorders: Finish Schizophrenia;
Psych Disorders: Personality
Crash Course: Personality Disorders
Assignments:
Monday, March 27 Quiz CH 15 "Psychological Disorders"
Monday, April 3rd Quiz CH 16 "Treatments for Psych Disorders"
Wed/Thu, April 5th & 6th - FRQ Timed Writing
