Advanced Placement Psychology with Mr. Duez
CH 15. Psychological Disorders & CH 16. Treatment
WEEK AT A GLANCE:MON: Introduction to Mental Disorders & the DSM-5 (handout); Crash Course Psychological Disorders
TUE: Psych Disorders: Anxiety, Trauma/Stress
Crash Course: Trauma & Addiction
THU: Psych Disorders: Depressive, Bipolar; Personality; Obsessive-Compulsive
Crash Course: OCD & Anxiety; Crash Course: Depressive/Bipolar
FRI: Psych Disorders: Schizophrenia; Dissociative; Somatic Symptom; Feeding & Eating
Crash Course: Schizophrenia/Dissociative; Crash Course: Eating & Body Dysmorphic Disorders
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Assignments:
Monday, March 26 - Quiz CH 15 "Psychological Disorders"
Monday, April 2nd - Quiz CH 16 "Treatments for Psych Disorders"
Tuesday, April 10th - TEST CH 15 & 16
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 anti-psychotic 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 & cognitive therapists are very popular forms of “talk therapy.”
7. Original Freudian therapy, though well known, is not utilized much anymore. However, psycho-dynamic techniques are combined with many methods to help patients and can be very helpful.
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 19, 2018
Quote: "We are masters of the unsaid words, and slaves to those we let slip out." - Winston Churchill
1. DO NOW: New Seats
True or False? - People with psychological disorders typically exhibit highly bizarre behavior.
2. Pass out handout for disorders: Introduction to Mental Disorders & the DSM-5 (handout)
3. 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 20, 2018
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: Anxiety, Trauma/Stress
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
Thursday, March 22, 2018
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: The fact that people acquire phobias of ancient sources of threat (such as snakes) much more readily than modern sources of threat (such as electrical outlets) - What approach to psychology might best explain this?
2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Psych Disorders: Depressive, Bipolar; Personality; Obsessive-Compulsive
Crash Course: OCD & Anxiety; Crash Course: Depressive/Bipolar
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
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Friday, March 23, 2018Quote: "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: Schizophrenia; Dissociative; Somatic Symptom; Feeding & Eating
Crash Course: Schizophrenia/Dissociative; Crash Course: Eating & Body Dysmorphic 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
