ADHD          Assignment 1: Course Project Part II—Practice

You have researched the theoretical writings related to your selected mental disorder in the second part of the course project. In the third part, you will examine the practice related to the disorder.

You have conducted field research on practice related to the disorder, including the interview with a health professional. Based on the information you have gathered, develop a paper that includes the following:

• Describe the extent and nature of the disorder, such as number of people diagnosed and under treatment, demographics, and other factors of interest.
• Explain how the selected disorder is diagnosed.
• Explain how the selected disorder is treated. Be sure to include all the views on appropriate treatment and comment on diversity of views or dissent.
• Differentiate the diagnosis of this disorder from those of the other disorders within the same diagnostic category.
• Comment on culturally bound syndromes, cultural biases, or the interplay between assessment and diagnosis and culture.

Write a 4–5-page paper in Word format. Make sure to review the rubric so as to address all necessary criteria. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M5_A1.doc.

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Assignment Criteria	Max Points
Describe the extent and nature of the disorder, such as number of people diagnosed and under treatment, demographics, and other factors of interest.	44
Explain how the selected disorder is diagnosed.	40
Explain how the selected disorder is treated. Be sure to include all the views on appropriate treatment and comment on diversity of views or dissent.	64
Differentiate the diagnosis of this disorder from those of the other disorders within the same diagnostic category.	44
Comment on culturally bound syndromes, cultural biases, or the interplay between assessment and diagnosis and culture.	44
Organization (16 points): Introduction, Thesis, Transitions, Conclusion Usage and Mechanics (16 points): Grammar, Spelling, Sentence Structure APA Elements (24 points): Attribution, Paraphrasing, Quotations Style (8 points): Audience, Word Choice	64
Total:	300

Short Paper on Socrates

Socrates compared Athenians to a dazed, sluggish horse that could possibly be awakened by the persistent biting of an (annoying!) fly. This idea of Socrates as a transformative “philosophical gadfly” inspired many who have read about Socrates’s life and death.

Your formal writing assignment this week is to write a 600-900 word essay that answers each of the following questions:

1. Did Socrates’s philosophical lifestyle have the potential to “wake up” Athenians in a way that could have been useful to that society?
2. Does the importance of being awoken in that way justify the extreme manner that Socrates chose to live and die?
3. Do you agree that (to use a famous phrase from the eighteenth century Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant), awakening an individual–or an entire society–from “dogmatic slumbers” is a constructive and useful role of raising probing philosophical questions? Is there a significant opportunity for philosophers or others to play this kind of constructive role in our own society?

Please ensure that your essay addresses each component of the assigned questions and that your answer is well-organized, uses excellent, college-level prose, and makes judicious use of textual evidence.