• Each student will required to write a 4 page paper about a condition from the list below or one that has been cleared with the professor. In other words, if you have personal knowledge or interest in a psychological disorder that you would like to write a paper about, send me an email. I want to okay the topic beforehand to make sure it is appropriate.
• I ask that you follow APA style when referencing your sources. Please use 12 point font Times New Roman (which also follows APA style). The 4 page requirement does not include the necessary Title page and Reference Page.
The paper should:
A. Define the condition (e.g., how does it come about? What are the main issues?)
B. Describe how one might recognize a person with the condition (e.g., what are the symptoms? What does it look like to an outsider?)
C. Possible therapies for the condition. Please do not try and spend a bulk of the paper describing drug therapies for the disorder. Two or three paragraphs describing therapies should suffice.
D. You will need to also turn in typed references (not included in page requirement). You may use any source you can find (i.e., books, internet, magazines), as long as you include them in your references. Preferably articles from peer a reviewed journal. APA citation style is required.
Possible Topics
| Agoraphobia | Delirium | Postpartum Depression |
| Alcohol Dependence | Dementia | Posttraumatic Stress Disorder |
| Anorexia Nervosa | Dissociative Identity Disorder | Pyromania |
| Antisocial Personality | Fetal Alcohol Syndrome | Rett’s Disorder |
| Asperger’s Disorder | Foreign accent syndrome | Schizophrenia |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder | Generalized Anxiety Disorder | Separation Anxiety Disorder |
| Autism | Histrionic Personality Disorder | Simple Phobia(Specific Phobia) |
| Bigorexia (work out) | Hyperlexia | Social Phobias |
| Bipolar Disorder | Hypochondriasis | Stockholm syndrome |
| Body Integrity Identity Disorder | Major Depressive Disorder | Stuttering |
| Borderline Personality Disorder | Mental Retardation | Stuttering |
| Bulimia Nervosa | Munchhausen | Tourette’s Syndrome |
| Capgras’ syndrome | Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder | Tricotillomania(Hair pulling) |
| Compulsive Hoarding | Panic Disorder | Triskaidekaphobia (fear of ‘13’) |
| Compulsive Overeating | Pathological Gambling | Williams Syndrome |
| Cotard Delusion (I’m dead) | Pica |
Check the assignments link to view the full rubric details. Below is a short summary of point allocation.
| Disorder Description | 20 points |
| Symptoms | 20 points |
| Treatment | 20 points |
| Spelling & Grammar | 15 points |
| Paper Organization | 15 points |
| APA Style | 10 points |
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