What recommendations do you have regarding the treatment process for the disorder and its impact on individuals, families, and communities?

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I-Introduce the disorder and illustrate how it may manifest in a client’s life.

  1. a.Expand on its relevance historically and in modern society
  2. b.What impact does it have on the individual? Family? Community?
  3. c.In your opinion, is it successfully being addressed in the United States? Why or Why not? Explain and support your position with current literature.
  4. II-Discuss the criteria for diagnosis
  5. a.Discuss the assessment tools commonly utilized in the diagnostic process.
  6. b. What assessment tools would you recommend based on their reliability and validity? Support your position with current literature.
  7. III- Introduce common treatment goals for the disorder.
  8. a.Illustrate the behavioral changes that relate to the treatment goals
  9. b.Explain the potential benefit, achieving treatment goals, may have on the individual, family, community.
  10. IV-Introduce at least three treatment strategies for the disorder.
  11. a.Explain each strategy, its historical foundation and how/if it is utilized in modern therapy.
  12. b.Compare and contrast each of the strategies. Discuss strengths, weaknesses, scientific support and how/if it is widely utilized
  13. c.What strategy or strategies would you recommend based on your findings? Support your position.
  14. d.How can treatment progress be evaluated?  What are the most effective tools for evaluation? Support your response
  15. V-Discussion
  16. a.What are current strategies to assist those who suffer from the disorder? Are there prevention strategies available?
  17. b.What are the strengths and weaknesses of the current approach(s)?
  18. c.What recommendations do you have regarding the treatment process for the disorder and its impact on individuals, families, and communities?  Support your response
  19. d.What areas of research are warranted regarding treatment for the disorder?
  20. VI-Conclusion
  21. a.Summarize

Describe the emergence of the contemporary views of abnormal behavior, including biological discoveries and brain pathology.

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Directions: Provide detailed and elaborate responses to the questions below.  Your responses should include examples from the reading assignments and discuss how the concepts are applied in modern psychology.  Your responses to each question should be at least one half of one page in length and include a minimum of two references.

1.What are some of the difficulties involved in attempting to define abnormal behavior?

2.What is the DSM and how does it define “mental disorder?”

3.Describe the emergence of the contemporary views of abnormal behavior, including biological discoveries and brain pathology.

4.Describe sampling and generalization, internal and external validity, criterion and comparison groups.

5.Describe the Cognitive Behavioral perspective and provide an example of how the approach may be utilized in a fictional scenario.

PART II

Review the Web resources in the lecture notes. Select at least three websites that you consider valuable.  In a document that is at least one page in length, provide the following information:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/

http://www.nami.org/

http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/

http://www.psych.yorku.ca/orgs/resource.htm

  1. 1.Describe the site and its purpose.
  2. 2.How does it demonstrate credibility?
  3. 3.Explain how the information provided on the site may be beneficial to students and professionals.

How might clients feel if they discovered that their substance abuse therapist had no personal experience with substance abuse?

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How might clients feel if they discovered that their substance abuse therapist had no personal experience with substance abuse? Would they feel betrayed? Lied to? Would they even care? Does past recovery experience influence the effectiveness of a substance abuse therapist? Therapy is an intensely personal journey, and it is important that clients trust their therapist to successfully guide them through the process.

For this Discussion, review the media titled “Audio Therapist: Colleague Calling.” Think about how you might respond to your colleague on the phone. Consider the relationship between effectiveness as a therapy group leader and firsthand experience with the recovery process. Use your own words in clear terms, as though you are speaking directly to a colleague.

With these thoughts in mind:

Write your response to the colleague. Include how you would explain to your colleague how she can convey her effectiveness as a group therapist. Provide the rationale for your response to the colleague. Be specific and use current literature to support your response.

APA format. Stay on topic. No more than 4 pargraphs.

Research using fMRI studies of bipolar-disordered patients undergoing emotional and cognitive tasks has shown abnormal brain activity

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  1. A patient committed suicide. In an attempt to better understand factors leading up to this
    death, the therapist interviews the patient’s family, co-workers, friends, and treating physicians.
    This approach is known as a
  2. psychological autopsy.
  3. post-mortem investigation.
  4. psychological inquiry.
  5. psychological debriefing.
  6. Research using fMRI studies of bipolar-disordered patients undergoing emotional and
    cognitive tasks has shown abnormal brain activity in
  7. a. multiple regions.
  8. the occi pital region.
  9. scarred brai n regions.
  10. every brain region.
  11. Unlike overeating too much of a favorite food, people with bulimia nervosa ______________ _
  12. consume a large amount of food in a short period of time and use compensatory

behaviors.

  1. consume a large quantity of food in a brief period of time but do not use laxatives.
  2. do not have trouble stopping when they feel full.
  3. feel more control over their eating because they have compensatory behaviors to
    regulate weight gain.