Abnormal Psychology Assignments

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Learning Activity #3: Mood Disorders Discussion

Read Chapter 6 in your Comer textbook.

Prepare to engage in discussion regarding the mood disorders and their implications. Please include in your discussion the following:

  • Distinguishing features, symptoms, causality, and treatment of both unipolar and bipolar depression.
  • The use of psychotropic and psychiatric medication for treatment.
  • Your personal encounter with feeling depressed and how you handled it.
  • Summarize symptoms of Somatic Symptom Disorder.
  • Summarize changes from the previous version of the DSM-IV-TR to the current DSM-5 for this disorder.
  • Discuss new emphasis on holistic mind-body connection in assessment of patients.

Learning Activity #4: Somatic Symptoms Discussion

Read Chapter 8 in your Comer textbook.

Read the Somatic Symptom Disorder article provided in the link below.

http://www.dsm5.org/Documents/Somatic%20Symptom%20Disorder%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf

Prepare to engage in discussion on the following points: