psy paper

Paper 4 Psychology 102

Assigned in discussion class Thursday, April 26 and Friday, April 27. This is one week before you finish discussing section 4 in order to allow you to begin writing the paper. You should wait until May 3 and 4 to write paragraph 4. If you want to be able to submit a rewrite after this paper is graded and returned by your ta, you must submit it in lecture to me Monday, May 7. If you do not want to rewrite, you can submit the written paper to your ta in discussion class on Thursday, May 10 or Friday, May 11.

You will be assigned by your ta a case study of a person suffering from one or more psychological disorders which will be on your Blackboard site. (You may not write your paper on any case study other than the one assigned you. You will not get a grade on the paper if you write on a different case study.) You will be using the concepts from Section 4 of the syllabus to discuss how to diagnose the person, understand possible causes of the disorder, and treat the disorder.

1. The first paragraph should be an Introduction as described in the syllabus.

The next four paragraphs should be based upon the suggestions for “Body Paragraphs” in the syllabus, with topic, supporting, and concluding sentences.

2. Using concepts from week 12 (we are going out of order here), discuss in paragraph 2 the psychological disorder from which the person in your case study suffers. Select only one disorder and be sure to present all of the evidence supporting your choice of that particular disorder.

3. In paragraph 3, use one concept from week 11 to discuss a psychoanalytic process that may be affecting the person in your case study. To make it easier, think of using the psychoanalytic concepts either as possible causes of the symptoms or as possible effects of exhibiting those symptoms.

4. In paragraph 4, use a concept from week 13 to discuss how you might treat the problem experienced by the person in your case study. If you wish, you may add to this paragraph discussion of the use of medication to treat the person using concepts from week 12 but you still must use a therapy concept from week 13.

5. 4. Paragraph 5 should be based upon the “Conclusion” section in the syllabus.

This course includes training in information technology as part of your general education. The remainder of the assignment deals with that topic.

6. Find a full-text article from a journal or magazine that deals with the disorder you selected in paragraph 2. Print out the first page of that article and attach it to your paper. Do not include this page in what you submit to SafeAssign.

7. Find an abstract from an article (not the same article used for the full-text assignment in number 6) in a professional psychology journal that deals with the disorder you selected. Print out the abstract of that article and attach it to your paper.

8. Find the name of a book that deals with the disorder you selected. Write the name of the book, the authors, the publisher and the year of publication on the last page of your paper.