A Psychiatrist for Eating Disorders
Created by Shannon Williams
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This WebQuest was created for teachers who are discussing “Eating Disorders” and wanted to do something different besides lecturing students. This WebQuest allows students to do research on their own, role play in a career, interact with other students, and problem solve.
Audience: The intended audience is 9th-12th grade high school students.
Prior to the lesson the students should know:
1. The three eating disorders: anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating
2. The characteristics of these disorders: causes, symptoms, treatments
*This prior knowledge helps the “therapy session” run smoother because the students can think and respond quickly without having to interrupt the session by looking in their notes for some answers.
Responsibilities of the Teacher:
1. To make sure the students look at the given websites to receive the proper information about the eating disorders.
2. To listen and evaluate the students on their therapy sessions.
Objectives:
1. Given a patient with an eating disorder, the student must be able to assign the correct disorder to the student with 100% accuracy.
2. Given the Internet resources for information on eating disorders as psychological diseases, students acting as a psychiatrist can identify which neurotransmitters are affected with the eating disorder and assign the correct pharmaceutical drug to the patient with 95% accuracy.
3. Given a patient with an eating disorder, the student acting as a psychiatrist must ask relevant questions to help them identify which eating disorder the patient as with 90% accuracy of questions.
Duration: This WebQuest will take two days: one day searching online with the WebQuest and the second day in the classroom doing the actual therapy session.
This WebQuest could instead take one day in class if the students search the WebQuest for homework (as long as everyone has access to a computer), then only one class day would be used for the therapy session.
Standards accomplished by this WebQuest:
Subject: Family and Consumer Sciences - Human Development and Family Wellness
Grade OR Level: Grades 10 & up
Standard 6: Determine strategies that promote human development and family wellness throughout the life cycle.
Indicator 6.1: Locate and evaluate products and information related to nutrition and wellness.
Indicator 6.4: Demonstrate techniques for prevention and management of illness and disease.
Indicator 6.6: Utilize family and community resources to meet individual and family nutrition, health, and wellness needs throughout the life cycle.
Subject: Family and Consumer Sciences - Nutrition and Wellness
Grade OR Level Grades 9 & up
Standard 2.0: Analyze factors that influence nutrition and wellness practices across the life span.
Indicator 2.1: Analyze physical, emotional, social, intellectual, and cultural components of individual and family wellness.
Indicator 2.5: Examine factors that influence health and wellness -- some controllable and some not -- such as exercise, nutrition, stress, genetics, work environments, and life events.
Indicator 2.6: Assess the impact of daily choices and behaviors on health and wellness.
Subject: Family and Consumer Sciences - Nutrition and Wellness
Grade OR Level: Grades 9 & up
Standard 3.0: Evaluate nutrition and wellness needs and practices of individuals and families as they relate to health across the life span.
Indicator 3.5: Assess impacts of body image, diet fads, and eating disorders on nutrition and wellness needs and practices.
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