Advanced Placement Psychology with Mr. Duez
Unit 6 - Psychological Disorders - Treatment & Social Psychology
WEEK AT A GLANCE:MON: Return FRQs, Discuss new FRQ Question - due Friday (timed writing)
Intro to Psych Disorders - Anxiety (GAD, Phobic, PTSD, Panic, OCD)
TUE: Psych Disorders; Types - Anxiety (GAD, Phobic, PTSD, Panic, OCD)
WED/THU: Psych Disorders; Types - Dissociative Disorders, Somatoform, Mood, Schizophrenia.
Personality Disorders; Treatments for Psych Disorders
FRI: FRQ Timed Writing
Quiz: Friday, April 17, 2015
Test: Friday, April 24, 2015
Learning Targets:
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, April 7, 2014
Quote: “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” - Carl Jung
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: What is a Psychological Disorder? What earns a classification of Mental Illness?
2. Pass Back FRQ; Discuss Next FRQ (due Friday - timed writing)
2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Introduction to Unit 6 - Psych Disorders & Abnormal Behavior. Discuss the "Case of Royce White"
The 6 Categories of Psych Disorder, Videos portraying each, discussion of types of therapies that would be appropriate.
3. Discuss FRQ - best practices, how to. FRQ TIPS AND TRICKS
Assignments:
FRQ Timed Writing on Friday.
FRQ TIPS AND TRICKS
Prepare for quiz and test by reading the notes, target sheets, your textbook, and preparing to understand Psych Disorders & Social Psych.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Quote: "What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult." - Sigmund Freud
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: What are the main types of Psychological Disorders?
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, PTSD, Panic, OCD)
Assignments:
FRQ Timed Writing on Friday.
FRQ TIPS AND TRICKS
Prepare for quiz and test by reading the notes, target sheets, your textbook, and preparing to understand Psych Disorders & Social Psych.
Wednesday, April 9, 2014 -and- Thursday, April 10, 2014
Quote: "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Is the ultimate cause of psych disorders/abnormal behavior biological in nature? If so is the ultimate cure then a medical one?
2. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Psych Disorders & Treatment
Psych Disorders; Types - Dissociative Disorders, Somatoform, Mood, Schizophrenia.
Personality Disorders; Treatments for Psych Disorders
Assignments:
FRQ Timed Writing on Friday.
FRQ TIPS AND TRICKS
Prepare for quiz and test by reading the notes, target sheets, your textbook, and preparing to understand Psych Disorders & Social Psych.
Friday, April 11, 2014
Quote: "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." - Nelson Mandela
Agenda:
1. FRQ Timed Writing - Mr. Duez will flip a coin between two questions.
Student will have the entire period to write out the answer to one FRQ.
Prepare for quiz and test by reading the notes, target sheets, your textbook, and preparing to understand Psych Disorders & Social Psych.
