Amy, age 38, is a worrier. She is restless, irritable and has difficulty concentrating. She worries that she worries so much and isn’t always sure what it is that she is worried about. She can’t let her husband or children leave the house without making them call her regularly to reassure her that they are ok. Her husband is growing weary of her fretting. Her children can’t understand what all the fuss is about. Their impatience with her only makes her worry more.
Amy seems to have Generalized Anxiety Disorder. She has 3 of the 6 symptoms: having irritability, feeling on the edge, and having difficulty concentrating. Also, it doesn't seem as if her condition is caused by psychological responses of a substance, or a medical condition. She may need to take a stress test. The results will tell the seriousness of the problem (minor or major) and can help the psychiatrist determine which medicine to prescribe. A cognitive behavioral psychologist may be right for her, since the psychologist would work with her.
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) may run in families, and it sometimes increases with stress. It may begin at a young age.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Friday, January 9, 2009
A Great Semester :-)
This has been a great semester! I was so excited to take this course and now that it's almost over, it's been everything that i've wanted it to be.
I liked how the assignments weren't boring or monotonous. The Stranger Paper, Play-doh activity, poster (extrinsic/intrinsic motivation), S/P science fair, and of course the blog were fun and helped learn the chapter. Other assignments, such as the vocabulary note cards and the Chapter at a Glances, helped study for the quizzes and tests. The IQ test was also an experience, since i had never taken one before.
My favorite activity was the plah-doh project. Looking at the terms of the Brain Chapter seemed so complex and stressful, but this activity made things easier. I also liked the Sensation &Perception science fair. It was great to work in a group because it was so easy to distribute the work among the three of us.
I didn't like the long chapters, because it was too hard to read the whole unit the night before! But when leaving out procrastination, one should read some of the unit every day and use the night before the quiz/test to review.
Hmm... What is there to leave out... If i had to pick something, it might be the Stranger Paper. But when i think about it, that paper taught us APA style, which you said would be useful in College. So i suppose that the Stranger paper should be included next year.
Maybe for your future AP Psych classes, you could incorporate more of the free-response prompts. But they don't have to be on the tests. You could maybe give students the free-response question before the test and have them turn it on the test day for extra points or something. Or maye you could just give a bunch of free-response questions at the end of the semester so that they can practice on their own.
Well i dont know much about Economics and i wont be taking it for another year. It seems like it would be a hard subject with a lot of studying and unfamiliar terms, but i'm sure that it wont be a boring or a tedious subject.
Thanks for a great semester Mrs. Halfen! Good luck with teaching AP Econ :-)
I liked how the assignments weren't boring or monotonous. The Stranger Paper, Play-doh activity, poster (extrinsic/intrinsic motivation), S/P science fair, and of course the blog were fun and helped learn the chapter. Other assignments, such as the vocabulary note cards and the Chapter at a Glances, helped study for the quizzes and tests. The IQ test was also an experience, since i had never taken one before.
My favorite activity was the plah-doh project. Looking at the terms of the Brain Chapter seemed so complex and stressful, but this activity made things easier. I also liked the Sensation &Perception science fair. It was great to work in a group because it was so easy to distribute the work among the three of us.
I didn't like the long chapters, because it was too hard to read the whole unit the night before! But when leaving out procrastination, one should read some of the unit every day and use the night before the quiz/test to review.
Hmm... What is there to leave out... If i had to pick something, it might be the Stranger Paper. But when i think about it, that paper taught us APA style, which you said would be useful in College. So i suppose that the Stranger paper should be included next year.
Maybe for your future AP Psych classes, you could incorporate more of the free-response prompts. But they don't have to be on the tests. You could maybe give students the free-response question before the test and have them turn it on the test day for extra points or something. Or maye you could just give a bunch of free-response questions at the end of the semester so that they can practice on their own.
Well i dont know much about Economics and i wont be taking it for another year. It seems like it would be a hard subject with a lot of studying and unfamiliar terms, but i'm sure that it wont be a boring or a tedious subject.
Thanks for a great semester Mrs. Halfen! Good luck with teaching AP Econ :-)
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