• Review course content, methods, and expectations
• Define and examine the concept - "mental health"
• Define and examine the mental health biopsychosocial model
• Review and discussion of student field experience

Class #2: Mental Health from a Biological Perspective 1 - Paul Grobstein

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Assigned Readings:

Paul Grobstein (1991) From Genomes to Dreams, from Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin

Paul Grobstein (1989) Diversity and Deviance: A Biological Perspective, from Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin

Recommended Readings:

Ari Berkowitz (1996) Our genes, Ourselves?, from BioScience 46: 42-51

William Calvin (1998) The Emergence of Intelligence, from Scientific American (November)

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Assigned Readings:

Paul Grobstein (1994) Variability in Brain Function and Behavior, in The Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, Volume 4 (V.S. Ramachandran, editor), Academic Press, 1994 (pp 447-458).

Antonio Damasio (1999) How the Brain Creates the Mind, from Scientific American (December)

Recommended Readings:

Ronald Melzack (1997) Phantom Limbs, from Scientific American (spring)

Esther Steinberg and Philip Gold (1997) The Mind-Body Interaction in Disease, from Scientific American

12 February 2002

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Assigned Readings:

Charles Nemeroff (1998) The Neurobiology of Depression, from Scientific American (June)

McDermott, Ray and Herve Vareene (1995) "Culture as Disability." Anthropology and Education Quarterly 26, 3 (1995): 324-348.

Recommended Readings:

Kay Redfield Jamison (1997) Manic Depressive Illness and Creativity, from Scientific American (spring)

Patricia Rodier (2000) The Early Origins of Autism, from Scientific American (February)

Class #5: Mental Health from a Psychological Perspective 1 - Leslie Rescorla

Required readings:

Excerpts on Psychodynamic (pp.94-97) and Cognitive Behavioral (pp.110-118) Approaches to Therapy from: Seligman, M.E.P., Walker, E.F., & Rosenhan, D.L. (2001). Abnormal Psychology. NY: Norton.

Ellis, A. (1995). Excerpts from: A twenty-three year old woman guilty about not following her parents' rules. In D. Wedding & R.J. Corsini (eds.), Case Studies in Psychotherapy. Itasca: F.E. Peacock Publishers

Class #12: Instructor "Integration Panel" and Class Discussion

All instructors will present 10 to 15 minutes of information related to the course theme that evolves from their course presentation and their area of special interest. This will be followed by a large group instructor/class discussion that examines the concept of a biopsychosocial model of mental health.