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Main ideas:
How criteria are used to determine each symptom
How symptoms are combined for each disorder
How disorders are grouped into categories
How the concept of abnormal is a social construction
Terms & Information:
(1) 4 categories of disorders
(2) A disorder or two from each category,
(3) A symptom or two from a disorder in each category
(4) General criteria
Example questions
6. Read
the case study on Karen on line.
Choose the two general criteria for a disorder that you think she is closest to meeting
(that is, that you are closest to saying, “she has the disorder”). the
behavior, thoughts or feelings from the case that supports your
judgment. Choose one symptom of
obsessive compulsive disorder and describe why it is a symptom and not just a
behavior.
Notes: general
criteria are described in the beginning of the chatper. It doesn’t ask for 2 disorders. I’m looking for you to pull out the
impact of illness on her.
Location: http://www.pierce.ctc.edu/tlink/general/disorders_karen.html
10. Describe
two different reasons why gender may influence the experience of anxiety
disorders. Be sure they are
different; be sure to describe the process (how does it affect their
thinking, their feeling, the movement from a worry to full blown anxiety).
Describe at least 2 behaviors that would give proof for one reason but not
the other.
7. Describe ways in which rituals are
similar and different than
obsessions and compulsions.
7. Choose 2 symptoms of
depression. Your goal is to
describe that symptom at 3 levels: (a) clearly meets the criteria for a
symptom, (b) behavior approaching the symptom, but not quite there, and (c)
behavior that is similar (everyday blues) that is not moving toward the disorder. The descriptions are not repeating
what’s in the text. Use example
cases found anywhere, the descriptions read out or seen in class, from
friends, on the web, etc. I have
more cases.
Note: it’s using “it’s a place, not a feeling,” descriptions. A good book for this is Julia Boyd’s Can
I Get a Witness in our
library.
Disorders –
Deborah Blau
8. Use the fictional
case of Deborah Blau on the website.
Describe which general criteria you think she most clearly meets and
the behavior, thoughts or feelings from the reading that supports your
judgment. Also, for each of the
three areas of schizophrenia -- disturbed thoughts, disturbed (sense)
perceptions, and emotional withdrawal/disturbed emotions -- give an example
of a symptom that meets the criteria.
http://www.pierce.ctc.edu/tlink/general/disorders_deborah.html
2. Use the
reading about Ken Steele (handout). Describe which general criteria you think
he most clearly meets and the behavior, thoughts or feelings from the reading
that supports your judgment. Also, give an example where his behavior is
severe enough to meet the criteria for each : disturbed thoughts, disturbed
(sense) perceptions, and emotional withdrawal/disturbed emotions.
5. A woman comes into clothing store at the Tacoma Mall. Talks to herself
in the mirror, sometimes yelling "you shouldn't do that". She comes
to the counter and opens a bottle of glitter gel, accidentally spilling it
over her face. She complains that it is causing a chemical reaction on her
face, and it happened because there are bombs exploding in the back room. She
scoops the gel off her face, puts it back in the bottle and asks for a
discount because of the chemical reaction. The clerk says no, she buys it
anyway. Name one behavior in this example that meets the criteria for
schizophrenia. Which criteria?
2. Use the same reading as for question #1. Describe what you hear from
this person that sounds most like an anxiety disorder, OR what keeps it from
being a disorder. Add one descriptive piece to the story to make it one of
the particular anxiety disorders (in other words, if you think he has a
disorder, what would you look for to confirm your diagnosis). Name the type
of anxiety disorder.
Reading for Questions #1 & #2:
Prologue
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar
Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of
substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids , and I might even be said to
possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to
see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is
as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When
they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of
their imagination , indeed, everything and anything except me. Nor is my
invisibility exactly a matter of a biochemical accident to my epidermis. That
invisibility to which I refer occurs because of a peculiar disposition of the
eyes of those with whom I come in contact. Matter of the construction of
their inner eyes, those eyes with which they look through their physical eyes
upon reality. I'm not complaining, nor am I protesting either. It is
sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing
on the nerves. Then too, you're constantly being bumped against by those of
poor vision. Or again, you often doubt if you really exist. You wonder
whether you aren't simply a phantom in other people's minds. Say, a figure in
a nightmare which the sleeper tries with all his strength to destroy. It's
when you feel like this that, out of resentment, you begin to bump people
back. And, let me confess, you feel that way most of the time. You ache with
the need to convince yourself that you do exist in the real world, that
you're a part of all the sound and anguish, and you strike out with your
fists, you curse and you swear to make them recognize you. And, alas, it's
seldom successful.
This is the prologue to Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
12. Use the fictional case of Deborah Blau on the website. Describe which
general criteria you think she most clearly meets and the behavior, thoughts
or feelings from the reading that supports your judgment. Also, give an
example where his behavior is severe enough to meet the criteria for each: disturbed
thoughts, disturbed (sense) perceptions, and emotional withdrawal/disturbed
emotions. http://www.pierce.ctc.edu/tlink/general/disorders_deborah.html
1. Over the last three months, Ivana's feelings of despondency have
intensified for no apparent reason. Although her friends have tried to be
encouraging and supportive, Ivana says she feels detached from people,
worthless. Choose one of the general criteria and discuss how it may apply to
Ivana's situation. Add details to the story that would help you sort out
which category of disorder it was. ("If she was also doing _. then it
would be more likely _.category")
1. Over the last three months, Ivana's feelings of despondency have
intensified for no apparent reason. Although her friends have tried to be
encouraging and supportive, Ivana says she feels detached from people,
worthless. Choose one of the general criteria and discuss how it may apply to
Ivana's situation. And add details to the story that would help you sort out
which category of disorder it was.
2. Choose one symptom of an anxiety disorder and describe an ... example
of symptom in severe form: example of "normal" or
"common" behavior that shows absence of symptom:____ example of
behavior in between the two above:
1. Describe one criteria for determining normal from mentally ill. You can
use a specific symptom or general criteria.
3. A woman comes into clothing store at the Tacoma Mall. Talks to herself
in the mirror, sometimes yelling "you shouldn't do that". She comes
to the counter and opens a bottle of glitter gel, accidentally spilling it
over her face. She complains that it is causing a chemical reaction on her
face, and it happened because there are bombs exploding in the back room. She
scoops the gel off her face, puts it back in the bottle and asks for a
discount because of the chemical reaction. The clerk says no, she buys it
anyway. Name one behavior in this example that meets the criteria for
schizophrenia. Which criteria?
4. Choose one symptom of a personality disorder and describe an ...
example of symptom in severe form: example of "normal" or
"common" behavior that shows absence of symptom: example of
behavior in between the two above:
5. Steve complains of unwanted thoughts. He tries to get them out of his
head. What would you look for to determine whether Steve has
obsessive-compulsive (anxiety) disorder or schizophrenia? (Add one other
behavior or symptom to this description that would distinguish the two types
of disorders.)
2. Choose one disorder and describe symptoms (description of their general
life) that are SIMILAR to the disorder BUT DO NOT meet the criteria for the
disorder. The goal is to see how gray and subjective the line is between
normal and abnormal.
5 & 6. Joan has been let go from two jobs in the last few months, and
has begun feeling down about it. She has cut back on her country dancing from
once a week to once a month, and believes her luck with jobs probably won't
change no matter what she does. (1) Name the type of disorder she is MOST
LIKELY suffering from, and (2) describe whether you think the symptoms meet
the criteria for the disorder. Feel free to add details about her life or
perceptions that would help you clarify your diagnosis.
7. Angela has been having trouble concentrating on work lately. She hasn't
been sleeping well and feels generally tired. She is becoming increasingly
worried that she won't shake off this pattern and will lose her job. What
would you look for to determine whether Angela has a depressive disorder or
an anxiety disorder? (Name one other behavior or symptom that would
distinguish the two types of disorders.)
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