In this post I’m going to look at ideas for introducing mental disorders. The AQA specification states students need to know and understand behavioural, emotional and cognitive characteristics of phobias, depression and OCD before considering each of the named disorders from a specific perspective: behavioural approach (phobias explanation and treatment), cognitive approach (depression explanation and treatment) […]
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I came across the excellent ‘London Brain Project’ as I was surfing the web for inspiration for teaching psychology. “We helped children get to know their own brain, in all it’s beauty and gory, during our ‘Meet your brain!’ Art-Science workshops at the Imagination Lab London, and as part of the London Science Festival 2014. Many thanks to […]
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