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Disorders
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1. Characteristics
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Psychotic disorder
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Affective disorder
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Anxiety disorder
2. Explanations
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Cognitive
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Behavioural
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Biological
3. Treatments
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Cognitive
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Behavioural
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Biological
1.Characteristics
WHAT DISORDERS DO YOU KNOW OF? CAN YOU
CATEGORISE THEM AS PSYCHOTIC, AFFECTIVE OR
ANXIETY BASED?
Diagnosis
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What are the purposes of diagnosis?
What techniques can we use to diagnose?
Discussion Carousel: Schizophrenia
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What is schizophrenia?
What are 3 symptoms you would associate
with schizophrenia?
What do you think causes schizophrenia? List
as many reasons as you can.
Do you think schizophrenia can be cured? If
yes, suggest how.
Symptoms – Key terms card sort
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In pairs, sort the key term with the correct definition
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Some of these terms need to be changed due to the changes in
diagnostic criteria
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Use the document on the learner space (labelled DSM 5) to make a
note of the differences (pg. 3 right hand side of the table)
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Which words need to be taken out?
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Which words need to be added?
DSM 5: Schizophrenia
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Provide the characteristics for
diagnosis
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Using the DSM-5, how would you diagnose
schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia is a serious
mental disorder
characterised by profound
disruption in cognition and
emotion
Schizophrenia
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Case studies
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Discuss whether they would be diagnosed with schizophrenia based
on the DSM 5 criteria.
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Can you come up with an
acronym?
Exam question – timed
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Describe the characteristics of a psychotic disorder. (10)
Anxiety disorders include:
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Panic attacks
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Phobias
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Post traumatic stress disorder
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Generalised anxiety disorders
Discussion Carousel: Phobia
List different types of phobia?
What are 3 symptoms you would associate with phobia?
What happens physiologically when someone has a panic
attack? What could the individual do to reduce their anxiety
levels?
What do you think causes phobia? List as many reasons as you
can.
Do you think phobia can be cured? If yes, suggest how.
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What is phobia?
DSM-5: Phobia
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Research the DSM-5
criteria for Phobia
Phobia
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Find a case study to present to the class that clearly demonstrates a
phobia.
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Would they be diagnosed as having a phobia using the DSM 5 ?
Further case studies
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PIESTRAPS
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Exam question
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Describe the characteristics of one anxiety disorder. (10)
Discussion Carousel: Depression
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Why do you think depression is known as the common cold
of the mind?
How is clinical depression different to feeling “down”?
What are 3 symptoms you would associate with depression?
Why do you think twice as many women as men are
depressed?
What could the individual do to alleviate their depression?
What do you think causes depression? List as many reasons
as you can.
Do you think depression can be cured? If yes, suggest how.
Affective Disorders
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Affective means literally to affect your mood – so any disorder than
affects your mood is called an affective disorder such as depression
or bipolar.
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Depression is when someone feels very down
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We all have different moods but an affective disorder is when the
mood changes affect our lives so that we cannot function
adequately.
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Bipolar is when moods alter between manic episodes and
depression.
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Dysthymia – persistent depression which can cause poor appetite,
overeating, insomnia, or low energy, low self esteem, poor
concentration, struggling to make decisions and feelings of
hopelessness. -> problematic
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Why is depression disabling?
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DSM-V: Depression
‘Depression is a low
emotional state
characterised by
significant levels of
sadness, lack of
energy and poor
self-worth, and
feelings of guilt’
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Essential feature of
specific depression:
Depression
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Find a case study to present to the class that clearly demonstrates
this disorder.
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Would they be diagnosed as having a phobia using the DSM 5 ?
Further case studies
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Discuss whether they would be diagnosed with depression.
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WORD
KEY WORDS DEPRESSION
DEFINITION
Is a condition where the prevailing emotional mood is distorted or
inappropriate to the circumstances.
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Describes a medical condition characterised by severely elevated mood.
Associated with bipolar disorder, where episodes of mania alternate with
episodes of depression
An illness that involves the body, mood, and thoughts and that affects the way
a person eats, sleeps, feels about himself or herself, and thinks about things.
People with this disorder cannot merely 'pull themselves together' and get
better.
As categorized by the DSM-IV, it is a form of mood disorder characterised by a
variation of mood between a phase of manic or hypomanic elation,
hyperactivity and hyper imagination, and a depressive phase of inhibition,
slowness to conceive ideas and move, and anxiety or sadness.
A mild mood disorder which is sometimes seen as more of a personality trait
than an illness. Characterised by repetitive periods of mild depression followed
by periods of normal or slightly elevated mood.
A form of the mood disorder of depression characterised by a lack of
enjoyment/pleasure in life that continues for at least six months. It differs from
clinical depression in the severity of the symptoms. While usually it does not
prevent a person from functioning, it prevents full enjoyment of life. It also
lasts much longer than an episode of major depression.
A major depressive episode that occurs without the manic phase.
SADGFACES
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Sadness, anxiety, or “empty
feelings”
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Decreased energy, fatigue,
being slowed down
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Loss of interest or pleasure in
activities that were once
enjoyed, including sex
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Insomnia
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Feelings of
helplessness/hopelessness
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Thoughts of death
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Difficulty concentrating
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Restlessness
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Chronic aches
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Outline the characteristics of an affective
disorder. (10)
Examination questions
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You must know the difference between anxiety,
psychotic and affective disorders as the exam question
may only ask you to define one of these and may not
give you the illness to help!
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You need to know enough about each disorder for 10
marks which should include the DSM symptoms and
examples
Disorders
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1. Characteristics
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Psychotic disorder
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Affective disorder
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Anxiety disorder
2. Explanations
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Cognitive
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Behavioural
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Biological
3. Treatments
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Cognitive
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Behavioural
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Biological