Experts+on+Abnormality+Presentation+Guidelines

You will become the class expert on one of the following disorders:

Anxiety disorders: PTSD (pp 157-161 & 178-180) Affective disorders: Depression (pp 148-157 & 174-178) Eating disorders: Bulimia (pp 161-165 & 180-181) Your first step:
 * Work together with your partner(s) to to compile and adapt the Unit objectives to your specific topic.
 * Divide the objectives and the points below, evenly among your partner(s)
 * Read and annotate Selected Readings for your part(s) that are found on your project page.
 * USE CLASS TIME TO GET THE WORK DONE.

Be sure to address each relevant objective directly in your presentation. Further, you need to explain the following: **Treatment Options**
 * Diagnosis **
 * Describe the typical symptoms (including by culture & gender)
 * Describe the prevalence by culture & gender
 * Etiologies **
 * Identify the etiologies in terms of all three levels of analysis
 * Explain current (post 1991) research on the etiology, symptoms & treatment
 * Explain and evaluate the effectiveness of biomedical, individual and group treatments approaches

Give an in-depth and detailed presentation that addresses all of the objectives above, in such a way that it is:
 * Understandable
 * ENGAGING
 * organized enough to allow effective note-taking
 * thorough
 * Inclusive of the material in the associated pages of the textbook, but also relevant to CURRENT research and practice.
 * Make sure that you cover the facts, theories, studies, and confounds that are mentioned in the textbook, but also include more recent studies and current beliefs, trends and practices

Suggestions Divide presentation elements by: Diagnosis, Etiologies and Treatment options. Further divide it by individual objectives that are related to each.

Notes:
 * To meet all of the above criteria, your presentation will likely span a single block (50 minutes) + time for clarifying questions.
 * Following each presentation, the class (including you and your group) will write an essay exam drawn from the IB test questions on the topic.
 * Your grade for the essay on this unit will be based on an average of the three exam questions. (This is the equivalent of Paper 2 of the exam.)

Your grade for the overall project will be determined as follows:
 * 10% || Effective & efficient use of preparation time ||
 * 10% || Effective & efficient use of presentation time ||
 * 5% || Organization (Must follow your submitted outline) ||
 * 5% || Clarity ||
 * 30% || Thoroughness ||
 * 10% || Quality of Presentation (hard and electronic copies submitted) ||
 * 10% || Creativity ||
 * 20% || Paper 2 exam for this unit ||

** DEADLINES ** Hard copy of COMPLETE outline submitted no later than Thursday 16 January 2014 (6 lessons) || Presentations will begin on Tuesday 28 January ||
 * Hard and Electronic copies submitted two (2) lessons before presentation Friday 24 January 2013 (+4 lessons after outline) Copies ** MUST BE ** submitted on that day. They cannot be submitted late.