Ordinary People- 1980 Movie

Description

Using the concepts covered in this course and an assigned movie (Ordinary People- 1980), students will write an eight- to ten-page (this does not include title, abstract, or reference pages), double-spaced synthesis paper as part of the assignments to meet the learning objectives of this course. In this paper, students will analyze the main characters of an assigned movie in the context of the presenting circumstances and symptomology relevant to abnormal and maladaptive behavior, and clearly indicate comprehensive provisional diagnoses of the characters by summarizing interpretations and perceptions of the character’s experience based on course learning. This paper will demonstrate the student’s ability to synthesize learning into an analytical paper that covers an overview of abnormal psychology and the study of maladaptive behavior. The DSM-5 must be one of the cited sources. The course instructor will provide clear expectations and guidelines for this paper. Students should combine their own thoughtful analysis with ideas and information found in the course textbook and/or additional sources. Therefore, as in any scholarly writing, students should not merely copy information from another author, but use evidence to support the contentions they have drawn from their findings and critically analyze related literature – this paper has to be an analytical paper, not a summary of readings. This paper must meet APA requirements of format and style. Students must cite the sources of all ideas, facts, and information used that are not their own, even if they have put the information into their own words. Failure to do so is plagiarism, even if the oversight is unintentional.