Psychology 468:
Advanced Psychopathology and Mental Health Assessment
You will need a copy of DSM 5 and a copy of the Case Studies text for this course. Bring them with you to class each day. |
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“Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity; but while this power is such as we can control and repress, it is not visible to others, nor considered as any depravation of the mental faculties: it is not pronounced madness but when it comes ungovernable, and apparently influences speech or action.” -Dr. Samuel Johnson, cited in H. Bloom, 2004
"The second day of my internship in pediatrics I went with my senior resident to tell some young parents that the automobile accident from which they had escaped without a scratch had killed their only child. Very new to this doctor thing, when they cried, I cried with them. After it was over, the resident took me aside and told me that I had behaved very unprofessionally. 'Those people are counting on our strength.' he said, I had let them down. I took this criticism very much to heart. By the time I was a senior resident, I hadn't cried in years. During that [senior residency year] a two-year-old baby, left unattended only for a moment, drowned in a bathtub. We fought to bring him back but after an hour we had to concede defeat. Taking the intern with me, I went to tell these parents that we had not been able to save their child. Overwhelmed, they began to sob. After a time, the father looked at me standing there, strong and silent in my white coat, the shaken intern by my side. 'I'm sorry, Doctor,' he said, 'I'll get ahold of myself in a minute.' I remember this man, his face wet with a father's tears, and I think of his apology with shame. Convinced by then that my grief was a useless, self-indulgent waste of time, I had made myself into the sort of person to who one could apologize for being in pain." (Remen, 1996, pp. 53-54)
| 436.02 Practicum | 333 Principles B Mod |
| 425 Advanced B Mod | 539 Child NP | Phil of Teaching |
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