COURSE
NU 643 ADVANCED PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
Instructions
You will write a paper for completion in Week 15 as your final assignment for the course. (You select a movie in Week 4 Activity 2: Individual Poster Presentation Topic Choice to write your paper on.) Pick a movie that portrays a character or characters experiencing a psychological disorder/mental illness, such as one from the following list. Alternatively, pick a movie that portrays an example of a certain type of therapy. You may choose your own, but it must be approved by your instructor before you submit the assignment.
- Leaving Las Vegas
- A Clockwork Orange
- What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
- Boys Don’t Cry
- Benny and Joon
- Girl Interrupted
- Seven
- Mad Love
- Rain Man
- Shine
- A Beautiful Mind
- Madness of King George
- Fight Club
- The Fisher King
- One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Twelve Monkeys
- Sybil
- The Three Faces of Eve
- Eating
- The Silence of the Lambs
- Pollock
- Ordinary People
- Analyze This/Analyze That
- Final Analysis
- Identity
- The Great Gatsby
Watch the movie and then please include the following sections titles in your paper:
- Analysis of Movie:
- Write a very brief summary of the movie. Give clear evidence that you watched it.
- Signs/Symptoms:
- Write a description of how the psychological disorder and/or the therapy was portrayed.
- Assessment and DSM-5 Diagnosis:
- Describe how you would assess the disorder (what assessment tools), and discuss the criteria for diagnosis based on what diagnosis you would choose from the DSM-5 to assign to the client in the movie.
- Evidence-Based Practice Plan of Care:
- Research and include evidence-based practice related to the disorder/therapy portrayed. Include a minimum of one peer-reviewed article. What therapy modality would you choose as the plan of care for the client?
- Summary of Movie Analysis in Correlation to DSM-5 Criteria:
- Write a critical analysis of how accurate or inaccurate you found the portrayal of the disorder/therapy. Show evidence of your knowledge of the psychological disorder/mental illness or the type of therapy (that is, include information from class or the textbook).
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