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Recovery psychology

NOTICE OF ORIGINAL WORK
This is an original work, of secondary research please feel free to discuss or participate in editing if you have an opinion in this matter. This is the development of a new course in psychology, borrowing from both, or perhaps improving upon clinical psychology and what is termed as the "Recovery Movement" in mental health. Recovery is a significant revolution in thinking for clinical psychology. This idea of adding "recovery" to the behavior science of psychology is equivalent to teaching the idea that the world is round to people whom thought it to be flat. Sadly, few have understood it. Simply put recovery differs from remission; in mental health remission refers to the absence of undesired behaviors (abnormal behaviors) this course is designed to move clinical psychology away from the remission philosophy; to seeing the person as a person, who can recover. In this context recovery can be simply put as the presence of the so-called behaviors; and in some way a return to normal; whether or not the word normal even applies. A person who recovers is taking an action they are behaving in a particular mentally healthy way; but they may have no desire to ever be labeled normal. This is an academic pursuit as well as a piece of socio-political activism. This is a very simple concept, it already exists in many various forms although it does not get officially recognized as Recovery Psychology; the basic expression of this concept is Recovery+Psychology=Recovery Psychology.  For the most part Recovery Psychology is a critique of both the "recovery" movement and clinical psychology, arguing that there should be no medical model that is not a recovery model.  Basically, anything done with a certain set of behaviors and mental processes is a psychology, those who work in a warehouse can be said to applying warehouse psychology, those who play sports use sports psychology, and those who recover are practicing or using recovery psychology. To the layperson who sees another individual acting in a peculiar way, it might be common for the layperson to say "that person needs help," recovery would be the evidence that help has been given and recieved. Which would be the failures in the past research oriented Abnormal psychology and the applied Clinical psychology that these do not address the help or recovery. The ideals of the recovery paradigm mirror those one can find in the academic study of social work, there is of course a problem with saying that this is true; in that a person who is mentally ill would be said to have a psychological disorder as in psychology not a social work disorder as in social work. To say a persons disorder is in remission is not the same as saying the person is living a satisfactory life that would have been lived with out a disorder, or that the person has regained the ability to live life. In the field of psychiatry the term mental disorder, psychiatric condition or mental illness is used, in rehabilitation the term disability is used, and in psychology the term psychological disorder is used to describe the diagnoses which these prespective sciences study. Since recovery psychology addresses all of these, it is important to note from which prespective the various writers and speakers are coming from to understand their influence on recovery psychology. "Recovery" is a concept that is faced with great skepticism with in the academic and scientific community; however it is not simply going to go away if ignored.

"It is important that psychology embrace the recovery model and participate fully in the transformation of the mental health system. I would even go so far as to suggest that this is an initiative that psychology is uniquely qualified to lead."-Dr. Ronald F. Levant Monitor October 2005 2005 President of the American Psychological Association''

 * Yale University webpage for Mental Health Recovery...like Duh!
 * General psychology videos on YouTube
 * Abnormal Psychology videos on YouTube

To the student studying Clinical Psychology
It is suggested that, whatever your beliefs about "recovery psychology", you proceed with your studies in clinical psychology and strive to reach your highest potential. With whatever title you earn, work in the profession 'treating' persons with psychological disorders. Even if you eventually reject the concept of recovery and conclude that it never happens, you never lose what you have learned and the real-life experience you have gained.

Perhaps being an effective counselor clinical psychologist is not be your aspiration. If so, you can ignore this course and/or the recovery concept altogether. If helping others is not your intent than you might as well abandon the social sciences altogether! I recommend reading P.C. M.D. How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine, by Sally Satel, who argues that the "recovery model" is the worst thing to ever happen to mental health. Satel cites anti-psychiatry groups as being a threat to the well being of persons who have been diagnosed with mental health problems. Oddly, Sally Satel writes for the National Review, a conservative publication. If you consider E. Fuller Torrey's 1988 book Nowhere To Go: The Tragic Odyssey of the Homeless Mentally Ill there is a section on the Right-Wing Anti-Mental Health Lobby, where he describes groups like the John Birch Society as being the source of anti-psychiatry propaganda. The question here is: if we are to believe that Recovery is about anti-psychiatry, then is it liberal anti-psychiatry or conservative anti-psychiatry? The bigger question being: Are those who speak of recovery from mental illness in harmony with those who speak of recovery from psychiatry? An intensive reading of anti-psychiatry literature will yield that even the most ardent believer of anti-psychiatry who disbelieves in mental illness will refer to some other person as being "crazy" or "insane" in some manner or to some extent. Since the anti-psychiatry belief affirms that there is no such thing as a "mental illness" the consequent fact has to be that no person can be "mentally ill." This is an important fact we will have to consider when we read further about "anti-psychiatry" and the influence on identity politics of recovery.

Exclusion of the Freud
Note: There is no mention of psychoanalysis in recovery psychology, since such is mentioned in a larger portion of  psychological educational literature, if it appears in the    general introductory course as a prerequisite to other courses, there is no need for it to be discussed twice. It is not conducive to the concept of recovery from psychological disorders.  Yet, psychoanalysis and  Freudian themes are persistently reoccurring in repetitious appearances in psychiatric nursing, and introductory psychiatry textbooks, not to mention clinical psychology, abnormal psychology, sociology, social work, social psychology,  administration of justice, developmental psychology, philosophy and most all other academic studies. There may be some references to psychoanalysis and such in the links of this course such as in the case of the history of a particular aspect of the overall recovery movement but there is no intention of this course discussing the psychoanalytical school of thought beyond the concepts of defense mechanisms which are in now referred to as coping skills that allow resilience in terms of adaptation and recovery. Although the talking cure may be present in some notions of counseling, some may feel that the idea of listening to what the client has to say dates back to Freud. It is noted that all psychology courses do cover the history of the "Freud," but where is the history of recovery (or as we might say the history of clinical psychology and psychiatry ever helping anyone)? A recovery psychology would be more concerned with the history of the consumer movement than the useless history of non-scientific or fruitless works, which are written by dead guys, is not psychology a science of living persons as well.

Recovery in Mental Health: A Brief Introduction
From June 2002 to April 2003 the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health met to discuss how to better treat psychological disorders. It was determined that all mental health services needed to be recovery oriented and that there needed to be a national education campaign on mental health recovery. These education intitiatives have been represented in the form of pamphlets, brochures and public-service announcements, which can be easily ignored by the general public. Following this line of logic a person could obtain a Doctorate in  mental health recovery by merely throwing away  junk mail and watching television. (See  Mental Health Commision)  It is the work of professional psychologists who themselves have recovered from psychological disorders where the largest body of material on recovery has come from. One can of course google or use other search engines to find SAMHSA intititives or US Department of Health and Human Services most notably the Campaign for Mental Health Recovery (CMHR) (See Also The Campaign for Mental Health Reform,BACCHUS Network, peer educator, and Active Minds on Campus) Although it may be hard to determine the content online of these intitiatives directly addressing the phenomena of recovery or giving it equal discussion to pathology of psychological disorders. See Review of Recovery Literature In this article "recovery" as a word is not always liked, as some might say that they had no before expierince. Dan Fisher describes recovery using a paraphrased line from the Crosby, Stills and Nash song Teach the Childern Well that 'Recovery is a process in which we become ourselves'. The arguement from the recovery psychology prespective would be that a person with a psychological disorder that becomes themself, has recovered the life or person they were meant to be. With this arguement, is the idea that the neccessary recovery is a much needed improvement upon clinical psychology. That there are mental processes and behaviors not being studied in a psychological context with regards to recovery and that failing to study these represent that failure of clinical psychology.

The recovery concept is an idea proposed by an identity politic of consumers, survivors and ex-patients from psychiatric institutions. They have proposed this idea in response as victims of civil rights abuses. As survivors of psychiatric assualt their testimonials have influenced mental health and behavioral health policies internationally. This have been termed as the recovery movement. It has developed from a number of other movements that happened simultaneously, such as the anti-psychiatry movement, the deinstitutionalization movement and the mental liberation movement. Primarily in the United States this movement has learned from the civil rights movement in the 1960's. However, the recovery movement is not just an American phenomena, it is in Austraila, Canada, England, New Zealand and many other nations throughout the world.

 * see Legitimization of the Consumer Movement and Obstacles to It

Clinical Psychology
Clinical psychology has always approached mental illness from the prespective of the medical model of illness. This has led to the view of a person with an illness to be as a set of symptoms not as a person. The recovery model takes in to person-centered values, in its view of the person as a human being. The concept of recovery, oddly enough not being fully accepted is in actuality the fulfillment of any practice of clinical psychology or psychiatry. In the October 2005 issue of the APA Monitor on page 5 of Volume 36, No. 9 the American Psychological Association (APA) has acknowledged that there is a "recovery model" in the terms of service provision there seems to be a lack of psychology studying the phenomena that is recovery. Although one source does in fact discuss the process theoretically in the terms of the Kübler-Ross model, which gives a foundation of psychological theorieum to use in studying this process, to simply say that recovery is a process, then to proceed in to speaking of rehabilitation services and rehabilitation outcomes is simply an error is known in literature as a smear fallacy {check name of fallacy} William Anthony in 1991 wrote Basic Assumptions of Recovery Oriented Mental Health System and listed as the very first assumption is that people can or sometimes do recover from psychological disorders with absolutely no professional intervention (see above mentioned smear fallacy, not that the fallacy is intentional it may be a part of the profession itself). Every one who is proponent of recovery seems to discuss what it is or like to over-speculate, over-fathom or over-intellectualize what recovery is. Hippocrates is seen by the western civilization as the father of all medicine, when one reads the Hippocratic Oath does it not just scream out the recovery concept? What other intention for a helping practice could their ever have been? Recovery is nothing new, it has always been around in the past the mental health system has hid those who recovered-Pricilla Ridgway. It seems to be a common expression that "that person needs help" is used when a psychiatriclly niave person is talking about a person whose behavior is perceived to be different, deviant or abnormal. However, the taking of psychopharmacueticals and recieving disability funds from social security falls short of being true "help." As stated above the concept of "recovery" would seem to be implied by the psychiatrically niave person when they are stating that a person needs "help." There is an obvious connection between psychology and psychiatry although some psychiatrists might deny it. In E. Fuller Torrey's 1988 book Nowhere To Go: The Tragic Odyssey of the Homeless Mentally Ill a diagram on page 164 lists the number of trained mental health professionals in 1945 to be 3,000 psychiatrists, 4,200 psychologists and 2,000 psychiatric social workers, where as in 1985 the number of psychiatrists were 32,255, 44,580 psychologists in 1983 and 54,883 psychiatric social workers. Where the number of psychologists and psychiatrists increased 10 fold as a result of the deinstitutionalization movement. The psychiatric social work profession had increased by 27 fold. The recovery movement which is part of psychiatry and psychology, is much taken up by Social Work and related, as stated numerous times. However it fails to fully be penetrated in to psychology and psychiatry to be a helping profession. These figures although rather old do demonstrate a dramatic increase in the mental health profession. A forty year increase is highly noticeable, while from 1985 until 2008 is a twenty-three year period which many psychiatric social workers can attest to the turn over and burn out of professionals in the mental health profession; This can be related to the pay level discrepancy of roles between the different mental health professions, socially attributed status-prestige of the professions, emotional toll of the profession, legitimate authority granted to higher paid positions, and the burden of work place integrity and the lower paid status.

Syllabus on Recovery in a Psychological context
The following will suggest and describe all the available resources necessary to learn about the recovery concept, with an explanation on how such materials relate to psychology. Then will do the same in referring from Clinical Psychology, Sociology, Social Psychology, alternative or radical psychology and other such disciplines. This is based on the philosophical arguement on the concept of transforming the mental health system in to a recovery based mental health system  is a noble concept, but why not address the mental health at it's roots (Clinical Psychology courses which are taught in the colleges? The fact remains that there is a very big connection between psychology and the mental health system, for one to fail to acknowledge this, would be obviously a serious case of denial). One could use search engines to research Mental Health Recovery using keywords related to recovery, although a few mentions in APA Journals here and there, which are vague and only speak of service models, service delivery and corporate policies there would be little in the psychological context. Psychiatric rehabilitation or Psychosocial rehabilitation may discuss recovery in a service delivery, social work or such like context and again not in a psychological context, although prehaps from a humanistic psychology approach. It is still hard to find information published on recovery in the clinical context, it seems as though people need to forsake one to even discuss the other, as if to say that the practices are not complimentary. Many psychologists that do recognize mental health recovery still do not see the full body of discussion on "recovery" outweighing or triumpithing that body of discussion on "pathology." The idea of clinical psychology being separate from a/the concept of recovery is a fallacy known Reductio ad absurdum. The mistake in the reasoning of clinical psychology is it's purpose, if it is not 100% about recovery. The idea that people scramble to come up with a definition of recovery is also strange since "clinics" have no right to exist without recovery, nor do doctors or the medical establishment...this is prehaps why there is such a strong anti-psychiatric sentiment in the modern era.

Basic Logical Premises of Recovery psychology

 * 1) There is a concept that is called recovery.
 * 2) There is a concept of remission that is clinical or medical.
 * 3) Remission is not a satisfactory condition of treatment for or the healing from psychological disorders.
 * 4) The condition of recovery is more humane than the condition of remission.
 * 5) Recovery is self-directed activity of a person with a psychological disorder.
 * 6) These actions can be quantified and measured empirically as objectivity as the symptomolgy.
 * 7) Recovery psychology would be what clinical psychology fails to represent, but by the nature of its description (clinical psychology) it is intended for.

Tools For Multi-Media Resource Study
The links below are resources used in the study of recovery and psychology as separate subjects, which various aspects of the two can be referenced by hyperlink to demonstrate the union of the two concepts. Be aware that English Wiki pages are written by various writers, although Recovery psychology was started by an American, and it may appear to have an American bias. Information is valuable and mostly universal, but you are advised that the information linked here to other wiki projects throughout the internet may be written in the UK, Canada, Austrailia, or for that matter any where in the world. Each writer would be writing from their own prespective, in terms of culture, nationality, and/or ethnicity and as it may be the New Zealand Psychological Association for an example may not see things the way that the American Psychological Association sees things, therefore the response to the system may be different there than in the United States. It is very possible that the names of diagnoses may also differ from region to region, in fact it is very likely that alot of terminologies may be different. TIP: use the new vocabulary words, terms or phrases that you learn from reading this course in search engines as your search key words.
 * Wikipedia
 * Psychology Portal on Wikipedia
 * PsychWiki.com
 * Goggle Search Engine finding articles throughout the world wide web
 * YouTube Video using search words from Recovery Terminology
 * Psychology Wikia
 * PDFs on Mental Health Recovery on njouba search engine
 * Other courses on Wikiversity
 * Central
 * Psychsplash
 * Student-Doctor Network Psychology Wiki
 * Derby Psychology Wiki
 * Wiktionary
 * Wikisource
 * Wikibooks
 * Wikispecies
 * WikiEducator
 * Allpsych Online The Virtual Classroom

Suggested Sequence of Lessons

 * Mental Illness-sociological
 * Identity Politics of Recovery
 * Mental Illness-psychological
 * Recovery?
 * The Theory of Recovery
 * /Stigma, Discrimination and Prejudice/
 * /Psychosocial Rehabilitation/
 * /Biological Theory/
 * Moral Development of the mental health profession
 * /Self-help/
 * /Quality of Life/
 * /Holistic therapy/
 * Recovery Psychology Course Summary

Suggested Reading On and Off line

 * Recovery in Mental Health: Reshaping scientific and clinical responsibilities
 * Fragile Revoulution: Fragile Revolution, A: Consumers and Psychiatric Survivors Confront the Power of the Mental Health System Barbara Everett'''
 * The White Paper:"Infusing Recovery-Based Principles into Mental Health Services"
 * The Role of “Evidence” in Recovery from Mental Illness Health Care Analysis Volume 14, Number 4 December, 2006
 * Think You're Crazy? Think Again: A Resource Book for Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis(2008) Anthony P. Morrison, Julia Renton, Paul French, Richard Bentall
 * Abnormal Psychology: Clinical Prespectives on Psychological Disorders(2007) Susan Krauss Whitbourne and Richard Halgin Recovery from psychological disorders p19-20, Goals for the Future of Mental Health p29, Nothing to Hide: The Frese Family p304
 * Coping with voices: Self help strategies for people who hear voices that are distressing (1995)Patricia E. Deegan
 * The Conspiracy of Hope (1996) Patricia E. Deegan
 * Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health (2006) Carol S. Aneshensel and Jo C. Phelan
 * In Recovery: The Making of Mental Health Policy (2004) Nora Jacobson
 * On Our Own, Together: Peer Programs for People with Mental Illness (2005) Sally Clay
 * The Power of Procovery in Healing Mental Illness: Just Start Anywhere (2000) Kathleen Crowley and William Anthony
 * Psychiatric Rehabilitation(2002) William Anthony, Mikal Cohen, Marrianne Farkas, Cheryl Cagne
 * Psychiatric Rehabilitation (2002) Carlos Pratt, Kenneth J. Gill, Nora M. Barrett, Melissa M. Roberts
 * Psychological and Social Aspects of Psychiatric Disability(1997) LeRoy J. Spaniol, Cheryl Gagne, Martin Koehler
 * Recovery and Wellness: Models of Hope and Empowerment for People With Mental Illness (2001) Catana E. Brown
 * Wellness Recovery Action Plan (1995) Mary Ellen Copeland
 * Recovery, rehabilitation and the conspiracy of hope: A keynote address (1992) Patricia Deegan
 * Social Work in Mental Health: Trends and Issues (1997) Uri Aviram
 * Nowhere to Go: The Tragic Odyssey of the Homeless Mentally Ill (1988) E. Fuller Torrey
 * The Recovery Workbook-Practical Coping and Empowerment Strategies for People with Psychiatric Disabilities (1994) LeRoy Saniol, Martin Koehler, Dori Hutchinson
 * Recovery as a Journey of the Heart (2001) Pat Deegan
 * What will endure?--Pat Deegan, Key note speaker
 * Recovery Resources U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
 * PBS Documentary Depression Out of the Shadow (2008) Researcher Helen Mayberg speaks of recovery, while other experts speak of remission, what is the difference? How do the results of research and application differ by the changing the focus of intended outcome?

And More Online

 * New Federal Prespective Recovery, Now!
 * Mental Health Recovery Newsletter Volume 7.2
 * Yale School of Medicine Program for Recovery and Community health

Quotes that summarizes Recovery Psychology from the Recovery Movement
"Recovery is for everyone"-Daniel Fisher
 * In the recovery literature there is the statement that, it is not just a person with mental illness who recovers, but family members of a person in recovery, the mental health care system and society as well that recovers.
 * The question that arises here is: How does this impact academic instructors and college students who study the subjects more commonly known as Abnormal Psychology and Clinical Psychology?
 * What about the need for Mental Health? How many millions of self-help books are sold every year in book stores? Does reading self-help books mean a person has issues? Is having issues different from having a mental illness? Daniel Fisher spoke at a conference once that persons diagnosed with mental illness were like the canary in a coal mine. He made this analogy to the status of human relationships in modern society. That the first warning sign is often when the canary gets sick, that people in society need to acknowledge the unhealthy attitudes in the environment. Is this what he meant by recovery is for everyone?
 * See Interview with Pat Deegan where she discusses what others have termed as "pathologically normal" and about trying to be normal when truly nobody is capable of living up to such an expectation.

 * Applied History of Psychology Textbook
 * Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Textbook
 * Positive Psychology Textbook
 * Psychology Textbook
 * Introduction to Psychology Textbook
 * Introduction to Philosophy Textbook

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Recovery psychology/Sociological

What is mental illness? [Sociological]
Psychosocial(psy*cho/soc*ial)-pertaining to or concerning the mental factors or activities which determine the social relations of an individual...from Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language 1983
 * Introduction to Sociology Textbook
 * Social Psychology Textbook
 * Social Deviance Textbook
 * Self-Interest and Social Behavior Textbook
 * Principles of Sociology Textbook

"'Only a fundamental change of the very culture of the system will ensure that the changes made in policy, training, research, and services will lead to genuine recovery. Consumers/survivors must play a leading role in designing and implementing this transformation. Otherwise, we will see people who have recovered playing a secondary role and their work fit into the existing system, rather than their work leading the transformation to a recovery-based system.'- from A Consumer/ Survivor Led Transformation of Today's Institutionally-based System to Tomorrow's Recovery-based System (J.Chamberlin/D.Fisher)"

Before we get started
First of all Wikiusers are great...the following image is realistic impression of what the average Abnormal Psychology or Clinical Psychology Textbook would look like at a typical American university or college. With all due respect to others work and their cultural prespective; a poor translation, from a person lacking foreign language skills, the title may appear to be Think: What kind of vibe do you get from viewing this picture? If textbooks present this kind of imagery or create this type of preception similar to the racist carricatures of Walt Disney cartoons during the 1930's. What is the sociological impact of psychological disorders? Are the mainstream educators on psychological disorders giving a hopeful impression of persons with these disorders?

This discussion first addresses sociology and social psychology concepts that should be known already to most psychology majors. All this information applies to people, human behavior and in general society. The question that arises in thinking from a position of mental health advocate is: why would an academic feel that it does not apply to persons with psychological disorders, if it applies to persons without a diagnoses of disorder? It would appear from the recovery oriented (psychiatric rehabilitation) literature and from the experiences of consumers of mental health services detailed there in; that of those whom seem to be to the consumers as being the elite high and mighty educated experts have forgotten most of the content of their prerequisite education, not to mention what may come to some as just common sense.

Social concepts of deviation

 * 1) Prejudice
 * Social influence on wikipedia, Introduction to Social Influence, Social Influence Theories, Social InfluenceNormative Social Influence
 * 1) The power of social intrepretation
 * 2) Subjectivity in the social situation
 * 3) Self-esteem
 * Social Cognition and social expectations: How people think about themselves and the world. How a person uses this information to make judgments and decisions.
 * 1) Automatic thinking: Thinking that is unconscious, involuntary and without effort.
 * 2) Schemas
 * 3) acessiblity and priming
 * Perseverance effect and stigma
 * Self-fulfilling prophecy of schemas
 * 1) Judgemental heuristics: Availability heuristic and representative heuristic Anchoring and adjustment heuristic Social PreceptionSocial Cognition
 * 2) Communication
 * 3) Attribution Theory: Internal Attribution External Attribution
 * 4) Covariation theory
 * 5) Correspondence Bias and the fundamental attribution error
 * 6) Perceptual salience: This is the seemling importance of information that is the focus of attention. Such as if everyone in the office were to focus on a detail and make unusual comments drawing attention it..."Jon never talks about women"
 * 7) The Self in psychology and the Self in sociology
 * 8) self-conceptThe Psychological Value of a Self-Concept 1, Psychological Value of a Self-Concept 2, The Psychological Value of a Self-Concept 3, The Psychological Value of a Self-Concept 4, The Psychological Value of a Self-Concept 5, The Psychological Value of a Self-Concept 6, The Psychological Value of a Self-Concept 7, The Psychological Value of a Self-Concept 8, The Psychological Value of a Self-Concept 9, The Psychological Value of a Self-Concept 10, The Psychological Value of a Self-Concept 11
 * Actor-Observer difference
 * Norms
 * Values
 * Mores
 * Folkways
 * Impression Management: A persons attempt to get others to see them as they want to be seen
 * 1) Psychosocial Environment
 * 2) Inequities of us and them attitudes
 * 3) The meaning of Mental illness has changed from being Chronic Mental Illness, Severe Mental Illness, Severe and Presistent, and now SeriousMental illness
 * 4) Ron Schraiber: a real "wild and crazy guy" Ron Schraiber is one of the founding forefathers of the psychiatric survivor movement. His ground-breaking research project with Jean Campbell in 1987, the Well-Being Project, set the standard for the recovery movement. Ron left his legacy as the Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health's Office of Consumer Affairs.
 * Human Relations

Definition of "Abnormal" in psychological terms

 * Distress
 * Impairment
 * 1) Risk to self and-or others
 * 2) Socially and culturally unacceptable behavior
 * Disruption in a persons ability to function or their dysfunction

What is social deviance?

 * | Article about deviance on Geocities
 * Deviant Behavior on Wikipedia
 * |Robert Keel at UMSL on deviance
 * The Private World of Darkness: Is beauty really just in the eye of the beholder?
 * When we look at what deviance or abnormality is; We might say that dangerous thrill seeking behavior, an inability to function properly, an inability to learn from the mistakes of self and others, an inability to pay attention, recklessness, a lack of empathy for others, a total disregard for social conventions and legal principles, danger to self and danger to others and so forth is deviant. This deviance could be Attention-Defecit Disorder, Anti-social personality disorder or any number of other psychological disorders. However, if only one driver is traveling on the road and adhering to posted speed limit sign (45 miles per hour) and all other vehicles are moving ten to forty miles per hour faster. The law abiding driver is not danger to self or others, respects social conventions, has empathy, learned from the mistakes of the past, is following the instructions of drivers training education, etc. Who is abnormal? Is it the single individual who conforms to safe driving expectations, or the many drivers who conform to imitating Hollywood|movies like the Fast and The Furious or Gone in 60 Seconds? By DSM-IV criteria all the majority would have a psychological disorder, while the law abiding individual would "normal" but that of course is to assume that the psychiatrist with his DSM-IV is not busy getting his car pulled out of a river as a result short sighted comformity and reckless behavior.

Normality and Psychopathy
It is important to mention when discussing whom it is that stigmatizes persons with psychological disorders, that nobody can really define a "normal" population of people. As noted earlier the Hollywood horror movie genre has done its part in producing the stereotype of the dangerous murderer in which the typical person who needs mental health services is such an individual, however the case being exception more than the rule. In actuality, the "normies" (persons whom are regarded as "normal") can be quite frightening if looked at using the same psychological or psychiatric scrutiny used to diagnose persons with mental disorder. For an example in 1977 C.S. Widom ran advertisements in the local newspapers:

"Wanted: charming, aggressive, carefree people who are impulsively irresponsible but are good at handling people and looking after number one" and "Are you adventurous? Psychologist studying adventurous, carefree people who've led exciting, impulsive lives. If you're the kind of person who'd do almost anything for a dare and want to participate in a paid experiment, send name, address, phone, and short biography proving how interesting you are..."

C.S. Widom was interested in researching psychopaths, she found what she was looking for. Her research found that our society was full psychopaths, and that these psychopaths were not in prison or in treatment for mental disorders. That under the definition of "normal" most psychopaths live "normal" everyday ordinary lives. Widom found that this sample appeared to posess many of the same traits as imprisoned psychopaths. See functional sociopaths, psychopaths in the non-forensic community, subclinical psychopaths or psychopathic personality traits in noncriminal population. One of the major criteria of psychopathy is a lack of empathy. Logically, the lack of empathy is quality of persons who uphold stigmas and prejudices. It is known that the general population has more social acceptance for persons with criminal convictions than for persons with psychological disorders; this could be connected to fact that the general population shares the qualities of evil criminality with psychopaths, therefore having less in common with the persons who likely to be the victim (persons with psychological disorders are statistically more likely to be victimized.)
 * For more critique on Pathological Normality Syndrome see Neurotypical Disorder Criterias: A Humorous parody this is from the prespective of a person diagnosed with autism

What is conformity?

 * 1) Is conforming to the posted speed limit normal? Is it dangerous to violate the speed limit? If the majority of people violate the speed limit represent a threat to self and others, is a person who has never recieved a speeding ticket abnormal?
 * Stanley Milgram Obedience to Authority about how easy the human mind bends to the will of perceived authority. Also see Milgram study of obedience
 * Solomon Asch about how people conform to group pressure and change their perceptions and behaviors
 * Philip Zimbardo The Stanford Prison Experiment about how people fall in to assigned roles
 * Jane Elliott : The Eye of the Storm or A Class Divided about how easily people are quick to change their perception of others.,FRONTLINE: A Class Divided - 3 of 5,FRONTLINE: A Class Divided - 5 of 5,
 * 1) See Rosenhan below for a psychosocial lesson on the nature of psychiatric conditions in the Rosenhan Experiment and Rosenhan Experiment on Wikia This study by David Rosenhan to many confirms that psychiatrists do not know the difference from persons with disorders from persons without disorders. This could cause a person to ask what is the distinction between normal and abnormal?
 * Lauren Slater attempted to duplicate the Rosenhan Experiment in 2004, this being after the 1973 study. Although the pseudopatients this time were not "locked up" after 31 years, the educated staff failed to recognize the words "hallow," "empty" and "thud" or to notice the significance of the pattern.  The psuedopatients were given referrals, appointments and prescriptions.  --SEE Clinicality (Institutionalization in the community at Community Mental Health Clinics)--SEE Medical model
 * 1) R.D. Laingand Rosenhan        3rd part and  4th part

Four Possible types of Discrimination It would seem that there are four tiers of stigma. Again, here, mention of anti-psychiatry that recovery psychology openly observes, as well as pro-psychiatry beliefs. Recovery psychology as a scientific philosophy can only hold one pro- idealism, which would be pro-recovery. Otherwise it it either loses its philosophical foundation or it loses its scientific objectivity. Here the anti- -isms are discussed in the context of being sociological stigmas.
 * anti-psychiatry as in against psychiatry (this is only stigmatizing to those persons in recovery; whom feel psychiatry has helped them...more of an idealogical disagreement, but it can be a stigma) being anti-psychiatry does not necessarily mean against mental health
 * anti-mental health as in against mental health; this goes beyond being against psychiatry
 * anti-recovery as in Sally Satel and alot of those who doubt the recovery concept
 * anti-consumer as in against the person recieving services, this goes beyond the first three, it is more anti-recovery, prehaps the strongest stigma, it is hatred of the person with a disorder in particular

Essay Question Looking Forward To The Next Lesson

 * learned helplessness-in the next lesson there will be mention of learned helplessness, after you have read and studied about how social forces influence ones own behavior in terms of thoughts, emotioms, preceptions and motivations it is important to remember these concepts and how they apply to the concept of learned helplessness. Quite simply if Jane Elliot can turn a blue eyed person against a brown eyed person by simply speaking in front of a class room of people, Philip Zimbardo can turn some college students in to prison guards and others to prisoners, Milgram can turn the average person in to a cold hearted tormenter, and Solomon-Asch can alter peoples preception of reality, then what are the proceeding implications for how persons with mental illness are treated? How do we craft the reality of a person with mental illness, with our attitudes and our language? And are we truly treating such individuals with fairness?
 * Some persons refer to psychological disorders as the "God given gift of mental illness"and wear it proud, there by fighting the stigma assigned to the condition, groups like the Icaurus Project and the Neurodiversity Movement often feel they have been blessed or are unique in a particularly positive way, while studies in psychiatric rehabilitation find that a persons' functioning is optimized when they can speak proudly of who they are or what kind of condition or identity they have; so is it good for a person with a disorder to say "I am mentally ill?"
 * Read The Country of the Blind, is this science fact or science fiction?
 * When did an education on science ever become political? When did the concept of a person healing from an illness involve political philosophy?  Why would a person believe that a disease would be concerned with a persons philosophical ideals?

Mental Health Care

 * Crisis...and Recovery on YouTube
 * Bipolar Disorder - College Student Speaks Out on YouTube,Mixed State Blog

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Time management/time study

A Time Study is a log kept over a period of time (typically a week) to give you an idea what use you are making of your time.

The log should at least consist of the date, type of activity, start time, and duration.

For those that aren't good with keeping track of time, a timer that rings after 1 hour. At that time, you can record what you did in the last hour.

After the period is up, you review how many hours you spent doing what types of activities. The idea is to identify which activities are regular activities, and what activities vary from day to day/week to week.

To review progress, time studies can be conducted every so often.

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Assistant teacher course/Testing and grading

Testing and grading
Testing and grading by assistant teachers can have the effect to degrade the quality of both. On the other hand assistant teachers have the advantage of being able to test and grade much smaller groups and receive motivation and an opportunity for personality development through the responsible task. An important distinction appears to be where to apply testing and grading by assistant teachers and where not.

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Grading conference
A grading conference can be seen as an important purpose of the assistant teacher office. The work leading up to a grading conference is made meaningful by the grading conference.

The participants should be told that the underlined passages are criteria for citizenship education (see Instructors' guide), which should provoke some curiosity to see the whole list of criteria for citizenship education, especially after the citizenship education phase. If nobody asks for the list the instructor can discuss with the group why nobody asked.

Important observations that can be made here are that grading the work of assistant teachers provides motivation for dispute, which can be used to train valuable social skills. The motivation received from a further grade for the assistant teacher office may not be a very strong motivation for all assistant teachers but for some assistant teachers it may provide a valuable degree of additional motivation. In general the assistant teacher office itself should be a source of motivation but is this source of motivation possibly damaged if the well-known motivation through grades is attached to it? Is it, on the other hand, a valuable motivation if an assistant teacher can lose assistant teacher status through bad grades?

Should a later group of assistant teachers reject the contradicting motivations they can either attempt to abandon grading for assistant teachers or form a committee on appeals to encourage challenging decisions seen as unfair. In either case the procedure provides motivation to do something sensible, which means the initial group of assistant teachers should decide on grading the work of assistant teachers.


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User:Ronaldofigueiro

Ronaldo Figueiró Portella Pereira graduated in Biology at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in 2002, the same institution where he got his Master of Science degree in Ecology in 2004, where he currently is doing his Doctorate in Ecology since 2006. He is currently one of the editorial assistants of Oecologia Brasiliensis, a freely distributed electronic Journal dedicated to reviews on ecology (http://www.oecologia.biologia.ufrj.br). Works with insect ecology, with emphasis on the biology, distribution and diversity of blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae).

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CisLunarFreighter/Game objects

 * Stars
 * Planets
 * Earth
 * Asteroids

 * People

 * Terrain
 * Elements
 * Atmosphere
 * Metals
 * Rocks
 * Water
 * Dirt
 * Plants

 * Spacecraft
 * Spacecraft components

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CisLunarFreighter/Game design

Game design
What do we want from the game? Preliminaries are In progress, please join in somewhere.

Configuration management
This needs some study and work defining useful methods. Many of our learners and participants have little or no experience with automated configuration management and tracking tools such as subversion, Ant or others.

Requirements
Fairly standard hardware will be required. The game will be able to run smoothly on older systems, and also be able to be flashy on high-end systems.
 * See also: /Detailed requirements analysis/ CisLunarFreighter/Detailed_requirements_analysis

Gameplay requirements
An overview of major requirements:
 * 1) Entertaining - the game should be fun.
 * 2) Social - Interaction with other people via
 * 3) Chat - most mud environments allow this
 * 4) Email -  useful or not?
 * 5) Game consequences - makes the game more interesting
 * 6) Educational - Players should learning something
 * 7) Expose users to some science, engineering, and operations concepts
 * 8) Math practice
 * 9) Reading around the web
 * 10) Use of open source tools for modification and extensibility
 * 11) Software design and coding techniques

 * See also: CisLunarFreighter Detailed Requirements Analysis

Storyboards and case studies for play scenarios
Please provide on Wikiversity or in open document format.
 * /Implementation stories for extreme programming/
 * /UML case diagrams/ CisLunarFreighter/UML_case_diagrams

Brainstorming
In progress, please join in somewhere.
 * Developing game scripts and menu and game play scenarios CisLunarFreighter/Scripts_and_case_studies

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CisLunarFreighter/Software development plan

Software development plan
We plan to use free open source tools to the greatest extent possible to produce data and software that is free redistributable and fully modifiable by anyone who wishes to do so. A former game producer has quite a bit of existing proprietary graphics models which we have now confirmed may be at least partially translated into open source blender files. It remains to be seen the accuracy and usefulness of the translation process. At this time we intend to develop in java with a deployment plan built around an adequate performance MUD server (even if must use different language) and java clients and game servers. Obviously this plan needs a great deal of research, thinking and augmentation before it can be considered a useable draft.

See also: /Open source tools/

Tasks
Let's brainstorm tasks:
 * Create and finalize preliminary specifications
 * Create concept art based on specifications (or use concept art to help guide specifications)
 * Decide what sort of subsystems are to be used...
 * Based on the subsystems (game engine, etc) start creating the art
 * Maybe start a connected project on Sourceforge or Freshmeat to have SVN support

Scripts
In progress, please join in somewhere along the learning trails. Add links to your stories and scripts below to solicit review from dropins or regulars. Stories and scripts may be in industry standard format or informal. Either place them in wikimedia files or pdfs published through the Wikimedia server:
 * /Splashscreen scripts/

Blender3D
Blender3D can serve as the development platform for the entire production. It has a built in game engine, 3D modeling capabilities, animation timeline, and scripting using the Python language.

Potential Java pieces needing evaluation
Editor's note: Move this section to an introduction to initial evaluation and results they grow. Mirwin 20:00, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

We may be able to use these as components or examples to learn applicable technique in Java environment:

 * gazelle - Fundamentally an animation tool. Plays .avi and .mov animation files under JMF (Java Media Framework libary from SUN)  Also, of possible interest to graphics artists or perhaps even programming with SVG.  Will it work with older .avi and .mov file????  A lot of older graphics laying around if we can convince people to free them once they are finished with traditional commercial life cycle.
 * Download links are broke, could be vaporware.

 * xine - GPL'ed media player
 * mPlayer - This seems like overkill for a small project but if we could add borders consistent with a view screen and our GUI appearance (providing appropriate credits in our credits file obviously) could we use this to keep our coding requirements down? Trading bulk for development effort  ... or is there a good player in a Sun Library somewhere we can just call?  Can we find out from reading mplayers code?
 * jslibs - "General-purpose native libraries for SpiderMonkey, Mozilla's JavaScript engine."
 * Ajax3d - 3D engine for Javascript, using tags for output.
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Specifications
What should the user experience be like?

An overview of the game's major requirements:
 * Entertainment -- should be fun.
 * Social -- Interaction with other people via
 * Chat -- most mud environments allow this
 * Email -- useful or not?
 * Game consequences -- makes the game more interesting
 * Educational - Exposure to some science, engineering, and operations concepts
 * Math practice
 * Reading around the web
 * Use of open source tools for modding
 * Software design and coding techniques

Hardware requirements
The game client and server should run on any adequate performance desktop. It is not intended as a primary focus to meet the needs of the emerging hand-held computing and communications markets.

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Group size
The recommended size of the group. (e.g. unlimited, more than 20, less than 15)

Preparation
The necessary preparation for the instructors.

Instructors
The recommended number of instructors.

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Casimir element

Given a simple Lie algebra $$\mathfrak{g}$$over the field $$\mathbb{C}$$ of complex numbers, the Casimir element is an element in the universal enveloping algebra $$U(\mathfrak{g})$$ that commutes with every other element there. In fact it generates the whole centre of the algebra. It is constructed from the invariant bilinear form (Cartan-Killing form) and is pivotal in the structure theory of representations of Lie algebras.

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 * 1) write down the casimir element for sl2 and show that it commutes with the standard generators e,f,h.

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Augustine of Hippo/Introduction to Augustine of Hippo

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Introduction to Augustine of Hippo

 * Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE) is one of the most significant Christian theologians in the history of the church. His works shaped all of medieval theology and philosophy, helped inspire multiple reforms of the church, and continue to inform theological discussions today.  This course is an introduction to his life and thought.

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Recovery psychology/Psychological

 * Psychological Testing Textbook
 * Abnormal Psychology Textbook
 * Psychiatric Disorders Textbook
 * SL Psychology Textbook
 * Demystifying Depression Textbook
 * Psychiatry for Medical Students Textbook

What is mental illness [Psychological]
In the United States mostly two types of diagnoses qualify as being serious enough to require state provided mental health services. Psychotic disorders, which is usually schizophrenia, and mood disorders which is usually but not limited to bipolar disorder. Persons with other mental disorders alone usually do not get state provided attention, unless the disorder is comorbid or cooccurring with another disorder. This is often referred to as Seriously Mentally Ill.
 * Is creative expression really a mental illness?
 * 1) Mental health matters
 * Martin Seligman researched Learned_helplessness in dogs, this is now compared to the behavior of humans with psychological disorders.
 * Abnormal Psychology Wikibook
 * 1) Topic:Psychopathology
 * 2) NAMI about Psychological Disorders
 * Wikipedia on Psychological Disorders
 * 1) An Article on David Rosenhan
 * More on Rosenhan on Wikipedia
 * Biological Prespective
 * Models of abnormality on Wikipedia
 * 1) Dr. John Breeding: Are You Normal? A subjective critique on subjective science The work of Dr. John Breeding (an antipsychiatry speaker) must be heavily acknowledged in Recovery Psychology...particularly in this video he discusses how subjective the concept psychological disorders is.

Although most discussion on psychological disorders tends to lean on biological theory, you will find that in every clinical or abnormal psychology textbook, you will find the following criteria for psychological disorders:
 * 1) Is all abnormal behavior disordered and how do we subjectively define psychological disorder?
 * 2) Is there a noticeable departure from social norms? See Social Norms
 * 3) Is there a personal distress and a disturbance in functioning of the individual? See RECOVERY
 * 4) Is there any maladaptive or troublesome behavior? See Sociological Stressors

The cause of psychological disorders

 * Nature versus Nurture
 * Psychosocial
 * Biological
 * Psychological
 * Sociocultural
 * Biopsychosocial

The primary concept of positive and negative symptoms in psychological disorders

 * Positive Symptoms=Behaviors that would be considered abnormal that only exist because of a psychological disorder. This is a present quality of a disorder.  (for example hallucinations)  Clinical treatment that brings about remission often addressess these symptoms.  Clinical treatment may be concerned with how to stop an unwanted behavior in a client, thus treating the client as if the client were the problem.
 * Negative Symptoms=Behaviors that would be considered normal which a person fails to act or engauge in, because of a psychological disorder. This is an absent quality of a disorder.  (for example not speaking) Psychiatric Rehabilitation that facilitates recovery would only address these symptoms, although recovery by its definition addressess all symptoms, roles and functioning.  Treatment that acknowledges this concept would be concerned with helping a person back in to being a person again, thus acknowledging the person first and the disability as being on a feature of the person, which that person has sought help with.

The Problem of Defining Psychological Disorder
In science there is the requirement of replication in order to prove the something is valid or true. That means any condition that occurs as a phenomenon can be recreated given the same circumstances. In order to determine that an individual, for an example: one who is uneducated, iliterate, homeless, has no family, was raised on the city streets and was beaten in to prostitution to have a psychological disorder; the individual would have to be compared to a sample population that constitutes a norm. This sample population would be for an example: one hundred individuals who are uneducated, iliterate, homeless, have no family, were raised on the city streets and were beaten in to prostitution, who have similar race, ethnicity, cultural background, of similar age or generation, in a similar city or region of the world. If the one individual deviates in his behavior from the behavior of those in the sample population that represent normal behavior then it may be possible that the individual has a psychological disorder. The Problem of defining psychological disorder in the person described here, is finding the sample population of "normal" to compare to.

Diagnostics

 * Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
 * Mental health professional
 * American Psychiatric Association
 * American Psychological Association

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
The DSM or Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is a publication of the American Psychiatric Association that classifies mental disorders using a multiaxial system. An Axis is a class of information regarding a particular aspect of a persons functioning. The five Axes of the DSM-IV-TR are:
 * Axis I: clinical disorders, including major mental disorders, as well as developmental and learning disorders
 * Axis II: underlying pervasive or personality conditions, as well as cognitive deficiets and dysfunction
 * Axis III: Acute medical conditions and physical disorders.
 * Axis IV: Psychosocial and environmental factors contributing to the disorder
 * Axis V: GAF or Global Assessment of Functioning or Children’s Global Assessment Scale for children under the age of 18. (on a scale from 100 to 0) This is purely subjective or a matter of opinion.

Evaluation, Assessment and Diagnosis

 * Mental health history
 * Psychological testing
 * Mental status examination
 * Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
 * Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory
 * Neuropsychological test
 * Neuropsychological assessment
 * Personality test

Trauma Theory
Trauma theory of psychological disorder emphasizes the effects of psychological trauma, particularly in early development, as the key causal factor in the development of some or many psychological disorders (in addition to post-traumatic stress disorder). It is not uncommon for persons with psychological disorders to also have a history of one form of abuse or another. Although some coincidental factors do show up, no substaintial evidence of trauma is present in every case of a psychological disorder. See Neurotransmitter Stress Disorder which has been proposed as an alternative to the name of the disorder known as schizophrenia comparing it to posttraumatic stress disorder.

Diathesis-stress theory
The Diathesis stress theory is the most widely accepted theory for understanding the cause of psychological disorders, what was once called the nature versus nurture debate is now considered as the nature through nurture assumption. This is the view that a person would have certain genetic or biological traits which are innate at birth and that these develop according to their natural tendencies, that are then influenced or manipulated by psychosocial factors in ones environment.

Rebutal from a propsychiatry view on antipsychiatry
This is fairly well thought out rebutal against antipsychiatry. The designer of these videos may not be neccessarily propsychiatry, but rather a critical thinker. Recovery Psychology must remain objective in both point-counterpoint controversies, the only area in which recovery psychology as a discipline can exist with an opinion is to be pro-recovery and pro-science.
 * Common Fallacies of Psychiatry Deniers, Part 1 by deidzoeb
 * Common Fallacies of Psychiatry Deniers, Part 2 by deidzoeb
 * Common Fallacies of Psychiatry Deniers, Part 3 by deidzoeb

The problem with scientific research
Scientific research requires measurements. There is an issue of objectivity and subjectivity. Often used to describe distress or disturbance are SUDS (Subjective Units of Distress), other forms of subjective measurement which claim to be empirical science are the MMPI or Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.
 * Quantitative research
 * Qualitative research
 * What is Multimethodology?
 * |Mixed Methods Networks for Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences
 * |Niglas, Katrin. 2004. The Combined Use of Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Educational Research
 * Can it be said that a person loves their spouse or other family member? If yes, than can there be an empirical measurement that quantifies units of love? Recovery, quality of life, happiness, meaning of purpose, self-esteem, and life satisifaction are also hard to define in single units of measurement.
 * See Empirical studies  Empiricism

Psychology and Psychiatry: Simarilities and Differences

 * Psychology
 * Psychiatry
 * see link to videos by Dr. David Henley on YouTube in Lesson 6 Biological prespective

Seeing Persons with psychological disorders as People not Disorders

 * MTV Episode of True Life: I Have Schizophrenia

Recovery as a legitimate psychological concept
In order to place recovery as a legitimate psychological concept, we must first review expert psychology authorities on the matter. These experts are authorities in both the science of psychology and the personal expeirince of psychological disorders, they themselves are consumers of mental health services.
 * Fredrick J. Freese, PhD,fredfreses.com
 * Patricia Deegan, PhD
 * Daniel Fisher, PhD, MD
 * The National Association of Consumer/Survivor Mental Health Administrators (NAC/SMHA) represents state mental health department senior managers who self-identify as current or former recipients of mental health services.

Food for thought (Recovery from Medication?)

 * Frontline: PBS Documentary The Medicated Child Does this documentary promote recovery or clinicality?
 * NEXT ON FRONTLINE on YouTube
 * PBS FRONTLINE: "The Medicated Child" (part 1) on YouTube A father asks where is the therapy for his son's disorder, he qoutes the nursey ryhme "There was once an old lady who sallowed a fly" to describe his child taking medication for side effects of other medications prescribed.
 * Synopis of FRONTLINE: The Medicated Child
 * Dr.John Breeding on YouTube about The Medicated Child
 * iHealthTube on YouTube
 * Is Your Child on Prescription Drugs? iHealthTube on YouTube
 * Are Prescription Drugs Safe For Your Child? Dr. Hyla Cass worries about young children taking medications because they're not being properly diagnosed and the drugs aren't being tested on children.
 * Prescription Drug PSA on YouTube
 * Dangers of Prescription Commercials Why are we pushed to take drugs by tv commercials? Dr. Hyla Cass on the importance of getting health information and advice from a reliable source.

ESSAY QUESTIONS

 * 1) David Rosenhan and his associates established that a psychiatric hospital can not determine whether or not a person has psychological disorder or not, why is it that mental patients identified who was mentally ill from who was not mentally ill?
 * 2) David Rosenhan proved that psychiatric hospitals can not identify mental illness from mental wellness, and they placed the label of in "remission" on him, is this not unlike failing to admit that they were wrong?
 * 3) If you were to write a thesis, from the perspective that you believe 100% in the chemical imbalance theory, mental illness and psychiatry (that is to say that you were completely without any antipsychiatry views), would you not believe that clarifying who is mentally ill from who is not to be of the upmost importance in treating psychological disorders? How would this benefit the treatment of psychological disorders?
 * 4) Should psychiatrists un-diagnose the diagnosis of schizophrenia on Rosenhan if they are to make their science honestly applicable?
 * 5) Should psychiatrists be allowed to diagnose a person to have recovered from mental illness or otherwise undo the diagnosis, in much the same way a brick layer can unbuild a brick wall?
 * 6) Was the alleged pathological "writing behavior" that was noticed by psychiatric staff unlike the neccessary note taking behavior of the psychiatric staff at an earlier time, when they themselves were in college?
 * 7) Is learned helplessness inevitable for persons with psychiatric conditions? (to answer this one, It may help to follow the links on the next lesson on recovery and watch the Recovery Lecture videos from VirtualWard on YouTube)
 * 8) For Quasi-historical prespective on psychological disorder read Alice in Wonderland, what was the author really trying to say?

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