This question is an opportunity for you to study a disorder, diagnosis, or mental health

Movie Review Presentation
This assignment is an opportunity for you to study a disorder, diagnosis, or mental health condition in greater depth. You prepare for this project by completing a series of milestone assignments that you will submit each week. You will submit the final culminating assignment in the last week of the course.
For this project, you will conduct a review of a feature-length film or television series of your choosing. Imagine that you are a psychologist who has been assigned the task of analyzing a movie that portrays a mental illness. Your primary job will be to analyze the behaviors of the characters from a psychological perspective. If no diagnosis was explicitly mentioned, which mental health diagnosis do you think best fits their behavior? Or, if a diagnosis was explicitly mentioned, did the writer and director “got it wrong” and that in real life, people with this diagnosis would not behave as the characters in the movie did.
You will submit this project as a PowerPoint presentation. The presentation should include brief clips from the film. The trailer may be sufficient to provide the synopsis of the film. You may be able to find clips of scenes online that illustrate the theory you are discussing. You will use the “Record Narration” feature in PowerPoint record yourself giving the presentation and you will use the Notes section under each slide to write out the text of what you say in the presentation.
You will have at least 5 professional references that discuss the disorder and related material you are using in your analysis. You may also use sources from the popular media as supportive or illustrative material but not as primary references.
NOTE:It is best to select a movie that you have previously seen since you will be viewing the movie from a different perspective and with specific goals in mind rather than for entertainment.
Milestones:
Overview: History and Symptoms
Causes of Mental Disorders and Illness
Treatment Options
Ethics and Societal Implications
Comparison of a scholarly source and a popular media source on the same topic.
Each week, you will submit a portion of the project in a milestone that examines a different aspect of the disorder.
Week 1: Select your movie or show
Week 2: Milestone 1: Overview: History and symptoms of the disorder.
Week 3: Milestone 2: Theories of the Possible Cause(s) of the disorder
Week 4: Milestone 3: Treatment options
Week 5: Milestone:4 Ethics and Societal Implications
Week 6: Milestone 5:Comparison of a scholarly source and a popular media source on the same topic.
Week 7: Demonstration of Learning Project: Final Submission (All revised milestones in a single presentation.)
By Sunday of each week, you will submit that week’sproject Milestone for feedback from your professor. You will revise each Milestone to incorporate the feedback to be included in the final submission which you will submit in Week 7.
A suggested outline of the final presentation is as follows:
Title slide: Move Title and Character Name – Your name, course name, and date
A brief synopsis of the movie you are reviewing. You should focus on the character or characters whose behavior you are using as the basis of your analysis. Include the movie trailer if possible. (1-2 slides)
The clinical name, description, history, and possible causes of the disorder. (1 -3 slides) (Milestones 1 and 2)
At least three characteristics/diagnostic criteria of the disorder depicted, supported with examples from the movie, and your analysis of the accuracy of their portrayal in the movie. Include clips from movie if possible. Alternately, if you are using this as an example of how the writer “got it wrong,” be sure to describe how you think people with this disorder would really behave and explain why you think this is so based on what behavior the diagnosis suggests would occur in such a situation. (3 slides)
Discussion of treatment depicted in the movie, if any. (1 -2 slides) (Milestone 3)
Some treatment options you think should have been included or discussion of why you think that treatment was given was not appropriate. (1-2 slides) (Milestone 3)
Discussion of the impact of the disorder on the character’s personal life, professional life, family life, etc., and prognosis. (1-3 slides) (Milestones 4 and/or 5)
Societal implications of the diagnosis (stereotyping, discrimination, etc.) (1-2 slides) (Milestones 4 and 5)
References (1 or more slides)
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9593505_1_PS3210-Project-Instructions.docx