Unit 8, Chapter 17and
18 Cloze Notes/Guided Readings
The Nature of Mental
Disorders
› 1.5
million people are currently hospitalized for illness or disturbances
› Between
and million people annually seek help for a mental
disturbance
› True
or false: mentally ill people are more likely to be violent than mentally
healthy people?
Causes of Mental
Disorders
› Biological
factors
› Physiological
› Sociocultural
background
› Life
stressors/circumstances
› Personality
traits
Definitions of
Abnormal Behavior
› Take
a few minutes to summarize the three criteria of abnormal behavior, suggesting
a person may need psychological help. In addition, are other indicators of
mental disturbance?
› 1.
› 2.
› 3.
› Other
indicators include: inflexibility, seeing the world as threatening
Types of Mental
Disorders and Impairments
› Childhood
disorders: conditions that are almost always diagnosed in that can last a lifetime or a few years
› Anxiety
Disorders: disorders where the major symptom ( ) prevents an
individual from functioning normally
› Somatoform
Disorders: psychological issues are expressed in in the absence of any real physical problem
› Dissociative
Disorders: disorders in which of a part of one’s life becomes
from other parts
› Mood
Disorders: Disorders characterized by states
› Psychotic
Disorders: severe mental disorder that may involve thought processes, hallucinations, ,
and major problems with emotional responses
› Schizophrenic
Disorders: psychosis involving disorganized thoughts and speech, as well as and .
This is the most serious disorder.
› Personality
Disorders: disorder in which a person has formed a or unpleasant personality
Using your Smart Device or the textbook (pages 506-509)
please describe the TWO most common
childhood disorders and how it is
treated.
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD):
Treatment:
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD):
Treatment:
ASD, cont.
› Symptoms
before diagnosis include lack of emotional responses, tantrums, rocking or
spinning to self-soothe, lack of eye contact, lack of speech or “babbling” as
infants, self-injury (may lack pain receptors), a need for “sameness” in their
environment, attachments to objects, or engaging in echolalia (repeating
others)
Anxiety vs Panic
1.
What is anxiety? What is panic?
2.
What kind of physical reactions do people
experience during anxiety? Is there anything YOU do in specific when you are
feeling anxious (such as before a job interview, before a test, before a major
change)?
3.
What is a panic attack and when do they occur?
4.
What is a phobic disorder and HOW is it
different than a panic disorder?
Obsessive-Compulsive
Disorder (OCD)
› Obsession:
an endless preoccupation with a certain or
› Compulsion:
symptom involving ,
symbolic, ritualized behavior ( )
› Obsessions
are the thoughts, compulsions are the acts
› Think
of two examples of obsessions and two examples of compulsions.
Why do people become obsessive-compulsive?
Somatoform Disorders
› What
are somatoform disorders? What are two examples and what are their symptoms?
(page 517)
› How
can a person develop conversion disorder? Hypochondria?
Dissociative
Disorders
What do people who suffer from dissociative disorders to do
their personalities?
› Please
take ten minutes to read 518 to 520 or use a Smart Device to explain amnesia,
selective forgetting, fugue, and
dissociative identity disorder
› Amnesia:
› Selective
forgetting:
› Fugue:
› Dissociative
identity disorder:
Mood Disorders
› Characterized by emotional states
Please use pages 520-525 to answer the following questions.
Your group will be responsible for answering one question, and you will present
the information to the class via the overhead.
1.
What is dysthymic disorder? How common is it?
2.
What are symptoms of major depression? How long
does it last?
3.
What are several symptoms of mania? What is
“flight of ideas”?
4.
What kinds of mood swings would someone from
bipolar suffer from? What other symptom may appear in someone who is bipolar?
5.
What are some triggers of depression? What is
learned helplessness?
6.
What effect does serotonin have on the brain?
7.
What are some risk factors for serious
depression and suicide?
Psychotic Disorders
› Severe
mental disorder that may involve disorganized thought processes,
hallucinations, delusions, and major problems with emotional responses
› Disorganized
thought process: inability to think or
speak in a way
› Hallucinations:
the act of something that is clearly there
› Delusion:
a is something that is clearly true
› Emotion
problems: of emotion or emotions at times (laughing at a tragic event)
Schizophrenic
Disorders:
› A
psychosis involving thoughts and , speech (word salad) or speech (rhyming words together for the sake of
rhyming), as well as hallucinations and delusions
› 
Three
types: catatonic, paranoid, and undifferentiated. Please define them below.
Three
types: catatonic, paranoid, and undifferentiated. Please define them below. |
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Catatonic Paranoid Undifferentiated
Schizophrenic
episodes
› Schizophrenics
do have periods of and relative .
› There
unusual behavior takes place during ,
where they are experiencing the hallucinations, delusions, and garbled speech.
Factors of
Schizophrenia
› Environment:
only plays a role is a exists
› Hereditary:
Greater chance of developing schizophrenia is an family member has it
› Chemicals:
levels are abnormally: think about when you
are excited or having a debate, words fly quickly.
Pause for reflection: What
effect does dopamine have on the brain in schizophrenics?
Answer:
Personality Disorders
› Antisocial
Personality Disorder
› Borderline
Personality Disorder
Antisocial
Personality Disorder
› A
is a person who has antisocial personality
disorder
› Person
understands social rules and norms, but does not
› While
rare, this is the most psychological disorder
Borderline
Personality Disorder
› Marked
by emotions and relationships, on others, and manipulative, self-destructive
behavior.
Treatments and Therapy for Psychological Disorders
Types of Mental
Health Workers
› Counseling
Psychologists: deal mostly with problems not fitting into a formal of mental disturbance
› Clinical
Psychologist: deals with problems of any kind, including those fitting
into the formal classifications of mental disturbances
› Psychiatrist:
doctors who special training in mental
› Psychiatric
social workers: help and deal with problems
› Psychiatric
nurses: registered nurses with special education in medicine
Types of Therapies
› Psychotherapies:
broad term for any method used to help people with and psychological problems. There are major types of therapy.
› Psychoanalytic
Treatment
› Humanistic
Therapy
› Behavioral
Therapy
› Cognitive
Behavioral Therapy
› Group
Therapy
› Biomedical
Therapies
Poster Tour of
Therapies-you will count off by sixes. Your group will create a poster on a
type of therapy and present it to the class. However, as a guideline, you must
be able to answer the questions listed below. Make sure you discuss in detail
what your therapy is and its advantages. When you present, the class will be
answering these questions. You may use the textbook (pages 540-558) and a Smart
Device. It is highly recommended you use both, if possible.
Psychoanalytic
Treatment
1.
What is psychoanalysis?
2.
What techniques are used? Explain them.
3.
In what cases is psychoanalysis used?
Humanistic Therapy
1.
What is humanistic therapy?
2.
What techniques are used? Explain them.
3.
How is humanistic therapy useful?
Behavioral Therapy
1.
What is behavioral therapy?
2.
What techniques are used? Explain them.
3.
How is behavioral therapy different from other
therapies?
Cognitive Behavioral
Therapy
1.
What is cognitive behavioral therapy?
2.
Who was Albert Ennis?
3.
What are the various aspects that accompany
cognitive behavioral therapy? (RET, IR, IS, A)
Group Therapy
1.
What is group therapy?
2.
What two techniques are used in group therapy?
Explain them.
3.
How can group therapy be more beneficial than
individual therapy?
Biomedical Therapies
1.
What are the three types of biomedical therapies?
2.
Why would a person choose to have shock therapy?
3.
Why would a person have psychosurgery?
Please continue to the other side to complete the questions that
follow.
Pausing for Thought
Using this information
your peers have presented, please answer the following questions independently.
Rely on the information you received from them first; then, if you need, you
may use a Smart Device or the book (pages 540-558).
1.
What is the goal of psychoanalysis and how does
it work?
2.
What are some ways therapists (and people in
general) show they are actively listening?
3.
What kind of characteristics should therapists
have?
4.
Why is humanistic therapy considered to be
“person-centered”?
5.
What is something you would use the behavioral
method of therapy for?
6.
What techniques do cognitive therapists use?
7.
Which method would be most effective in treating
depression? In eliminating phobias?
8.
What do the different therapies all have in
common?
9.
What is a major benefit of group therapy?
10.
Can drug therapies be effective?
11.
Which therapy, of all you learned about today,
do you feel is the most effective?
END OF ASSIGNMENT
Psychological Disorders Project Due Date:
This project required you to research a psychological
disorder and teach the class about it. This is quite a large project: you will
have three days to research and begin your project, which will be in a Power
Point or Prezzie format. Because you have three days of class to research, as
an extended time period to create the final product, the expectations are high.
Your classmates will be relying on you to deliver thorough and accurate
information about the psychological disorder you have been assigned to. Your
presentation must be done in a professional manner, complete with graphics,
images, animations, and transitions. (Think about the presentations YOU have
seen throughout your high school career from your instructors.) You
presentation MUST have at least 5 images at a bare minimum. You
MAY NOT USE ANY OF THE PEOPLE/CHARACTERS WE DISCUSSED IN CLASS!!!!!
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Area
of Info
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Point
Value
(150 total)
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My
score and teacher comments
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Name of disorder, definition, and symptoms
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30 points
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Causes, progression, and treatment
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30 points
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History of the disorder
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15 points
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Who is most often affected (gender, age groups, etc) and how frequent
is the disorder? (1 out of every # of people)
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10 points
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Famous person with disorder and brief background (required image)
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10 points
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Fictional character with this disorder and brief background (required image)
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10 points
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Activity for audience to participate in (you must create)
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15 points
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Transitions/animations / Minimum of five images and graphics
(No
Clip-art)
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10 points
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Spelling/Grammar (less than three errors)
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10 points
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Presentation of project (Confident, knowledgeable, prepared) (8
points) AND turned in this sheet! (2 points)
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10 points
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END OF ASSIGNMENT
