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Assignment 3- [Around 4 -6 pages]

Read the 2 cases: OCD and PTSD

Ch.8 Karen_OCD (NEED TO READ THE CASE, PLEASE NO OTHER SOURCES, NEED TO BASE ON THE BOOK)

1. (a) What is the difference between an obsession and a delusional belief?

(b) In what ways are obsessions different from the everyday worries that all of us experience?

2. (a) Most people experience brief intrusive thoughts, impulses, and images on a regular basis. Could the ability to experience such thoughts be adaptive, from an evolutionary perspective?

(b) When does the pattern cross the line to become maladaptive?

3. (a) What impact does OCD have on other members of a patient’s family?

(b) Should the person’s spouse agree to tolerate or participate in compulsive rituals, such as special cleaning or checking procedures?

4. Exposure and response prevention is a challenging treatment procedure that can be quite anxiety provoking for patients. How hard should therapists push their patients to participate in treatments that will be upsetting in the short run if they know that they will be successful in the long run?

Ch. 10 Jocelyn_PTSD (NEED TO READ THE CASE, PLEASE NO OTHER SOURCES, NEED TO BASE ON THE BOOK)

1. (a) Discuss the issues surrounding Jocelyn’s reluctance to report her rape.

(b) Should her therapist have reported it to the police without her patient’s consent? (c) Was there a better way for the English professor to handle the situation?

2. (a) How did Jocelyn’s friends respond to her problems?

(b) Did they help the situation or make it worse?

(c) Is there anything that they could have done that would have been more beneficial to her?

3. (a) Do you think that a person can develop PTSD after witnessing an assault, a bad accident, or some other kind of traumatic event (that happened to some- one else)? Or does PTSD only occur in people who are directly the victims of trauma?

(b) What kind of evidence would be needed to answer this question empirically?

4. (a) Do you think that PTSD is best classified in a separate heading of “Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders?” Or should it be classified more broadly as a form of anxiety disorder (along with phobias and panic disorder)?

(b) Does it belong under the heading of dissociative disorders?