what you have read or studied so far in a course is an essential

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Normal and Abnormal Behavior ScenariosPowerPointTo reflect on 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 some time and reflect onunderstanding how psychology can help you in your everyday life. Please use this week’sreadings to assist you.As you have learned, your mental health and wellness can affect your life and how you interactwith others as a student, professional, and in your personal relationships.A GCU student learns through the 4 Pillars that physical, mental, and spiritual wellbeing is vitalto success in academics in a chosen career field and in life in general. For this assignment youwill complete a 7 to 10 slide PowerPoint containing the following information.Describe what abnormal and normal behavior is.Select two of the four case scenarios which contain examples of potentially abnormalbehavior. Next identify the abnormal behaviors in each scenario, what possible mentalhealth diagnosis 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 readings for this week as well as videos to assist you.Explain three treatment strategies for each scenario that you chose. You must includethree to four in-text citations in the body of the power point as well as a reference slide.You may use any of our readings or videos from this week to help illustrate your ideas.______________________________________________________________________Jamie Single MomJamie enrolled in the online Bachelors of Science in Psychology program at GCU in the springof 2011. She is a single mom with two children under the age of 5 and she works a full-time jobas a customer service representative.Jamie is starting to feel overwhelmed with juggling school, work, and spending time with herchildren. Her physical symptoms are: wanting to cry every day, sometimes being short with herchildren, withdrawing from friends and family, and being tired and worn out. She is consideringquitting school so that her life will return to some normalcy, but then she worries about how shewill pay back her student loans when her current job barely covers her bills. Not only that, butshe does not want to give up on her dream of becoming a counselor. Jamie feels as though she isin an endless cycle and does not know how to resolve her feelings and physical symptoms. Hernegative thought processes have skewed her thinking._________________________________________________________________________© 2011. Grand Canyon University. All Rights Reserved.John- Anxiety Disorder – Obsessive Compulsive DisorderJohn is single and has not worked in sometime. On a daily basis he fears what the day mightbring. To make sure that the day goes right he takes 2 showers daily, one after getting up in themorning and one 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 and marks off thesetasks on a checklist. Lastly, at night, he checks his house to make sure all windows and doors arelocked. He unlocks and locks the front door at least three (3) times to assure that the lock isworking.John is also going to school, as he knows that he needs to find a job and is hoping to be able todo online computer work when he completes his degree. He is currently struggling with hisschoolwork as he has started to obsess about certain routines in it as well, such as doublechecking with the instructor every day that he has completed all of his work, posting 5 and 6times to the classroom, and e-mailing his classmates daily to see if he has missed something.John recognizes that he needs some help, but does not know where to begin._________________________________________________________________________Tim – Young AdultTim is finding the freedom of being out on his own exciting and cannot seem to experienceenough of his friends and having fun. He is going to school online per his family’s request to“make something of himself.” Although this is the case, he does see the value of going to schooland would eventually like to complete a degree in business. He finds himself not completing hisschoolwork on time and is considering dropping out, but does not want to let his parents know heis failing. He is feeling anxious about this as he is getting further and further behind. He does notwant to give up on having fun with his friends either and is stuck in not knowing how to manageresponsibility to his family’s wishes and maintaining a sense of freedom and autonomy.__________________________________________________________________________Alice Sleep Disorder – InsomniaAlice is an executive at a local business and has struggled since her early adulthood with fallingasleep most nights. She says that she feels “mentally hyperactive” at bedtime, and is unable tostop the thoughts of the day, especially those issues that were unresolved. She also feels thatwhen she does not get all of her work done for the day that she does not “deserve to go to bed.”Any evening excitement such as a TV show, movie, or a party leaves her unable to quiet herselffor hours, which leaves her tossing and turning in bed. Sometimes she finds herself waking up inthe middle of the night and her thoughts are again racing about the day’s activities and problems.The lack of sleep leaves her feeling on edge at work the next day with her co-workers and withher fiancé. She has tried sleep-aids, but they make her feel groggy the next day and she does notwant to become dependent on them._______________________________________________________________________© 2011. Grand Canyon University. All Rights Reserved.© 2011. Grand Canyon University. All Rights Reserved.

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