Normal and Abnormal Behavior Scenarios PowerPoint To reflect on what you have read or studied so far
Normal and Abnormal Behavior Scenarios PowerPoint To reflect on what you have read or studied so far
Normaland Abnormal Behavior Scenarios PowerPointTo reflecton what you have read or studied so far in a course is an essential part ofunderstanding. This worksheet form will provide a place for you to take sometime and reflect on understanding how psychology can help you in your everydaylife. Please use this week’s readings to assist you.As you havelearned, your mental health and wellness can affect your life and how youinteract with others as a student, professional, and in your personalrelationships.A GCUstudent learns through the 4 Pillars that physical, mental, and spiritualwellbeing is vital to success in academics in a chosen career field and in lifein general. For this assignment you will complete a 7 to 10 slide PowerPointcontaining the following information.·Describe what abnormal andnormal behavior is.·Select two of the four casescenarios which contain examples of potentially abnormal behavior. Nextidentify the abnormal behaviors in each scenario, what possible mental healthdiagnosis they may show signs of and how these relate to the facts of thesedisorders illustrated by The Anxiety and Depression Association of America.·Please use our other readingsfor this week as well as videos to assist you.·Explain three treatmentstrategies for each scenario that you chose. You must include three to fourin-text citations in the body of the power point as well as a reference slide. Youmay use any of our readings or videos from this week to help illustrate yourideas.______________________________________________________________________Jamie Single MomJamieenrolled in the online Bachelors of Science in Psychology program at GCU in thespring of 2011. She is a single mom with two children under the age of 5 andshe works a full-time job as a customer service representative.Jamie is startingto feel overwhelmed with juggling school, work, and spending time with herchildren. Her physical symptoms are: wanting to cry every day, sometimes beingshort with her children, withdrawing from friends and family, and being tiredand worn out. She is considering quitting school so that her life will returnto some normalcy, but then she worries about how she will pay back her studentloans when her current job barely covers her bills. Not only that, but she doesnot want to give up on her dream of becoming a counselor. Jamie feels as thoughshe is in an endless cycle and does not know how to resolve her feelings andphysical symptoms. Her negative thought processes have skewed her thinking.
_________________________________________________________________________John- Anxiety Disorder – Obsessive Compulsive DisorderJohn issingle and has not worked in sometime. On a daily basis he fears what the daymight bring. To make sure that the daygoes right he takes 2 showers daily, one after getting up in the morning andone at mid-day. He also makes sure that each household task such as vacuuming,washing dishes, scrubbing the floors, etc is completed by noon every day andmarks off these tasks on a checklist. Lastly, at night, he checks his house tomake sure all windows and doors are locked. He unlocks and locks the front doorat least three (3) times to assure that the lock is working.John is alsogoing to school, as he knows that he needs to find a job and is hoping to beable to do online computer work when he completes his degree. He is currentlystruggling with his schoolwork as he has started to obsess about certainroutines in it as well, such as double- checking with the instructor every daythat he has completed all of his work, posting 5 and 6 times to the classroom,and e-mailing his classmates daily to see if he has missed something. John recognizesthat he needs some help, but does not know where to begin._________________________________________________________________________Tim – Young AdultTim isfinding the freedom of being out on his own exciting and cannot seem toexperience enough of his friends and having fun. He is going to school onlineper his family’s request to “make something of himself.†Although this is thecase, he does see the value of going to school and would eventually like tocomplete a degree in business. He finds himself not completing his schoolworkon time and is considering dropping out, but does not want to let his parentsknow he is failing. He is feeling anxious about this as he is getting furtherand further behind. He does not want to give up on having fun with his friendseither and is stuck in not knowing how to manage responsibility to his family’swishes and maintaining a sense of freedom and autonomy.
__________________________________________________________________________Alice Sleep Disorder – InsomniaAlice is anexecutive at a local business and has struggled since her early adulthood withfalling asleep most nights. She says that she feels “mentally hyperactive†atbedtime, and is unable to stop the thoughts of the day, especially those issuesthat were unresolved. She also feels that when she does not get all of her workdone for the day that she does not “deserve to go to bed.†Any eveningexcitement such as a TV show, movie, or a party leaves her unable to quietherself for hours, which leaves her tossing and turning in bed. Sometimes shefinds herself waking up in the middle of the night and her thoughts are againracing about the day’s activities and problems. The lack of sleep leaves herfeeling on edge at work the next day with her co-workers and with her fiancé.She has tried sleep-aids, but they make her feel groggy the next day and shedoes not want to become dependent on them._______________________________________________________________________
