Moving on: Starting Pregnancy, Birth and Infant Care

Welcome to module #3.


Module three will revolve around the process of pregnancy and caring for an infant (birth-12 months).

The textbook can be found in print in our classroom or online in the side-bar on the right.

The first assignment is in the HCS3060 folder and revolves around the first two sections of the book.

Could everyone also please fill out the Work Habits/Employability rubric for the last module.

Module Quiz: Mental Health and Wellness

from xkcd.com

Module Quiz: Mental Health and Wellness

Work habits/ Employability Rubric

Some Entertainment for Your Morning - ASAP Science Wars

Video: Jon Ronson - Strange Answers to the Psychopath Test

Presentation Links

from xkcd.com

Alzheimer's Disease
Sociopathy Psychopathy
Autism Spectrum and OCD
ADHD
Borderline personality Disorder
Phantom Limb Disorder
Schizophrenia

Jeopardy Game from Class

HSS3020 Jeopardy Game

Food for Thought: Researchers Find Link Between Impatience and Faster Aging

From Medical Xpress: Researchers Find Link Between Impatience and Faster Aging

Monday Morning Funny: Sumo Sprint

Mental Health and Wellness 06 - Disorders of Mental Health Jigsaw

Stop calling Sherlock Holmes a sociopath

For this project you will choose a topic to present on in the area of mental health disorders(other than the ones already studied)

You will be responsible for researching and presenting to the class the following:

• Clinically, What is the disorder?
• What brain and/or hormone systems are affected in this disorder?
• What social implications does the disorder affect?
• What work/life implications does the disorder have?
• What common misconceptions do people have, in real life or in the media about this disorder?
• What kinds of community or healthcare supports exist for people with this disorder?
• How is this disorder treated?
• What other disorders are commonly associated with or can be caused by this disorder?

You may present alone or with a partner (or in groups of three covering 2 topics) on one of the following:

• Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Eating disorders
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Schizophrenia
• Sociopathy/Psychopathy
• Alzheimer's/Dementia
• Phobias & Panic Disorder
• Borderline Personality Disorder

Topic priority will be randomly drawn unless a class consensus is reached.

Video: Jane McGonigal, Kevin Briggs, SciShow

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Focus on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

from emsworld.com

Today we will be looking at post traumatic stress disorder. You will look at the following questions:

1. What is PTSD?
2. Why is PTSD currently in the news in Canada?
3. What is the psychological basis for PTSD?
4. What are common signs and symptoms of PTSD?
5. What type of stigma exists towards PTSD in military and first responders? How does this affect them getting help?
6. What other disorders of Mental health issues are often associated with PTSD?
7. What role does resiliency play in preventing PTSD? What protective measures can be taken by someone to help prevent PTSD?
8. What effect does PTSD have on the family of those who suffer from it?

Resources

Centre for Suicide Prevention - First Responder Trauma Intervention and Suicide Prevention

Roy Green Show 1 - First Responders and PTSD

Roy Green Show 2 - First Responders and PTSD

Canadian Forces - Understanding PTSD Treatment

Edmonton First Responders Mourn Sudden Death of Paramedic

PTSD Paramedics Will Be Silenced by Discrimination

Tuesday's Cool Video

Video: Psychological Terms that You're Using Wrong

Video: ASAP Science - The Science of Depression

Mental health and wellness 04 - Anxiety and Depression PSA

On Wednesday, we will sit down as a class and we will do a critique of everyone’s work in order that you can improve the final product for submitting on Tuesday the 16th.

Mental Health is an area of healthcare that is frequently given little attention until recently.

One key piece of mental health and wellness is prevention through public education.

Your assignment is to create a pamphlet, series of slides or video outlining one of the following areas in mental health promotion.

• Coping techniques for stressful situations.
• Test taking
• Social situations
• Public speaking
• How to deal with chronic bullying.
• How to help a friend who is being abused or in an unhealthy relationship.
• Techniques to recognize and cope with depression.
• The physiology, signs and symptoms of bipolar disorder and how it is treated.

Your target audience will be high school students such as yourselves.

You may work in pairs or threes if you are producing a video, may work in partners or alone with the slides and can't work with a group if you are making a pamphlet.

Please include a separate sheet of references for everything.

Monday Morning Funny: Pepsi Sumo

Mental Health and Wellness 03: Depression and Anxiety

Anxiety and Depression

1. Please answer the following questions and place the answers in your assignment folder.
2. What is the difference between anxiety, depression and clinical depression?
3. What is the difference between a psychologist and a psychiatrist?
4. What symptoms does the DRM-5 require for someone to be diagnosed with clinical depression?
5. What are some long term effects on brain physiology in cases of chronic depression?
6. What other major health concerns can be triggered by long term depression?

Resources

Depression Basics

https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/depression

Crash Course: BiPolar and Depressive Disorders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwMlHkWKDwM

DRM5 - Depressive Disorders

http://www.psnpaloalto.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Depression-Diagnostic-Criteria-and-Severity-Rating.pdf

Depression: Beyond Seratonin

https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199903/depression-beyond-serotonin

Food For Thought: Sleep

Video: Clara Hughes & Bell #LetsTalk

Food for Thought: Can Stress Kill You?

Review Video: Tissues Part 1

Something to Brighten the Day

Mental Health and Wellness 02 - Defining Features Assignment

Mental Health 02 - Defining Features Assignment

from quotesgram.com

Please answer the following questions using, but not limited to, the provided resources and place the answers in your assignment folder in a sub folder names "Mental Health and Wellness".

• Define mental health
• What are the most common causes of mental stress?
• What is positive stress? What is negative stress?
• How do we assess and evaluate and evaluate levels of stress
• How do psychological and physiological signs of stress differ?

Resources

Alberta Health: Mental Health Resources

http://www.health.alberta.ca/health-info/AMH-Mental-Health.html#anxiety

How to Measure Stress in Humans

http://www.stresshumain.ca/documents/pdf/Mesures%20physiologiques/CESH_howMesureStress-MB.pdf

Kelly McGonigal: How to Make Stress your Friend

http://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress_your_friend

Crash Course: Stress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KbSRXP0wik

Crash Course: Sympathetic Nervous System

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IDgBlCHVsA

Class Plan: February 2nd + Review Video

Today we will be doing a few things to get started with class.

First we will review the course outline.

Next, we will play an icebreaker game: Two Truths and a Lie

We will then set up our Google Drive Assignment Folders for this semester.

Last, we will be doing some Anatomy and Physiology review.

Watch this:

Welcome to Medical Studies

Hello and welcome to Medical Studies for the 2015 school year.

Whether you come to this class with a specific medical science path in mind or want to find a path to follow, this is the place for you.

medicalschoolblog.com

Our class takes place period 3 for semester one in room 329.

Please check out the course outline to see what the plan is for this year's learning.

Because of the nature of the course, the computers in the lab are going to be heavily utilized.

A couple of things to note before we start for those who are unfamiliar with my teaching style:

• This course is designed to stimulate your learning in a variety of ways. It will include individual activities that involve colouring worksheets that will be closely contrasted by small group presentations where you will be expected to become experts and sharer your new-found expertise with the class.
• This course focuses on skills relevant to 21st century learning. You will research, present, collaborate and work as teams nearly every day in this class. If this bothers you, then I suggest looking into another profession .
• This blog will be a hub for communication but all individual communications can be sent to MDWAY@EDUCBE.CA or MDWAY@CBE.AB.CA
• If you come to school every day with an open mind this course will be very enjoyable for everyone involved.

I look forward to getting to know everyone better in the coming days as we begin our journey to understand the world of Medical Science.

Way