A beautiful mind mental health and mental Illness worksheet
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The Happier Therapy editorial team is made up of Masters and PhD counselling psychologists. Each worksheet is created by a team member with exposure to and experience in the subject matter. The worksheet then gets reviewed by a more senior editorial member. This is someone with extensive knowledge of the subject matter and highly cited published material.
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What is the theory behind this A beautiful mind mental health and mental Illness worksheet?
A beautiful mind is a movie that follows the life of John Forbes Nash Jr., a mathematical genius of his time who went on to receive a Nobel prize. It was inspired by true events related to his ongoing battle with paranoid schizophrenia while making significant contributions in the field of mathematics. It is a good movie to spread awareness of and understand schizophrenia, its manifestations and the stigma attached to mental illnesses..
How will the worksheet help?
The worksheet will help students reinforce what they have learned about paranoid schizophrenia from the movie A Beautiful Mind. Watching the movie can help them relate what they have learned in textbooks to visuals that can facilitate their learning regarding mental disorders. This worksheet can help consolidate that learning.
How to use the worksheet?
This worksheet can be used by teachers and counsellors with students to teach them about mental disorders. A session can be arranged for viewing the movie and then discussing its content with a specific focus on diagnoses, symptoms and treatments for schizophrenia. This worksheet can be given as a homework assignment to be discussed in the next class or meeting.
