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Lesson Plan Originally Created By: Lisa Quintana

Personality Disorders

Part of Unit: Understanding the Patient as a Person

Lesson Plan Overview / Details

Personality disorders are patterns of inflexible, maladaptive behavior, thoughts, and emotions that relate to the ways an individual responds to life's stressors.

Lesson Time

Standards

California Career and Technical Education Standards

California Academic Content Standards (Reinforced)

Objectives and Goals

  • Identify each personality disorder
  • Define features of each disorder

Activities in this Lesson

  • Spotlight - Hooks / Set

    Ask students if they think anxiety disorders in college students is common?

    Read the article called "Helping a College Student with an Anxiety Disorder." After this have a detailed discussion and listen to students concerns and apprehensions about college life.

  • Lecture - Lecture

    Pass out the Personality Disorders worksheet. As the lecture material is presented ask students to identify as many personality traits as they can and list them under the appropriate cluster type and disorder type.

  • Matching - Demo / Modeling

    Have students use the new knowledge learned within the lecture to correctly match the personality disorder to it's correct definition on the Matching Worksheet. This worksheet can be corrected by the student.

    • matchingdisorders_worksheet.pdf [ Download ]
  • Essay - Lab / Shop

    Each student will independently reflect on the information presented in the lecture and movie and complete a 1 page essay answering the following question:

    When do personality traits become a disorder?

    Students should have access to the internet to research material for this paper. Listed on the assignment directions are approved websites to use.

    • Personality Disorders Essay [ Download ]
  • Quiz - Assessment

    Have students complete the personality disorders quiz to assess the knowledge gained throughout this lesson.

    • quiz_personalitydisorders.pdf [ Download ]
    • quiz_personalitydisorders_key.pdf [ Download ]

Assessment