Abnormal Psychology Assignment

Abnormal Psychology Assignment

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Purpose: As your final course project, this assignment should indicate knowledge of how your own personal worldview, beliefs, and/or values impact empathy for the patient/case, patient/case assessment, psychotherapeutic care planning, and/or caregiving. It should also show the appreciation you have for normal variance in biology, emotion/cognition, spiritual life, social behavior, ability, vulnerability, and/or culture. Finally, this project will reveal fundamental knowledge you have about abnormal psychology, including key terms for identifying or treating problems, and what course-featured experts have to contribute.

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Select just ONE of the following two options for your final course project and complete the described assignment.

Present your project in both an original and psychoeducational way. Each final project represents a potential opportunity to apply what you have learned in this course in an excellent way to help others who are hurting.

Abnormal Psychology Assignment

1. Write a bio-psycho-social-spiritual critique of a purely biological framework for understanding one psychological disorder of your choice.
2. Write an abnormal psychology-oriented movie review of a particular film (see list of outside media permitted for this project). Students will be required to obtain or rent the film of their choice. The emphasis in this review should be on etiologies and psychotherapeutic approaches/treatments of at least one psychopathology type covered in this course.

Your project should be a minimum of 600 words and formatted based on APA guidelines including in-text citations and a References section with a minimum of three academic sources. At least one source should be the result of your own research, i.e. not previously cited in this course.

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Abnormal Psychology Assignment

1. Write a bio-psycho-social-spiritual critique of a purely biological framework for understanding one psychological disorder of your choice.
2. Write an abnormal psychology-oriented movie review of a particular film (see list of outside media permitted for this project). Students will be required to obtain or rent the film of their choice. The emphasis in this review should be on etiologies and psychotherapeutic approaches/treatments of at least one psychopathology type covered in this course.

Your project should be a minimum of 600 words and formatted based on APA guidelines including in-text citations and a References section with a minimum of three academic sources. At least one source should be the result of your own research, i.e. not previously cited in this course.

Click the “Submit Assignment” link in the upper right corner to upload your assignment.