C Collin
Simmons College
Boston, MA
I teach in a graduate level social work program at Simmons College in Boston, MA. My best teaching day ever was in my Assessment and Diagnosis Class this summer, where students learn the inner workings of psychiatric diagnosis. This course can be a total snooze, but not this day!
Simmons College
Boston, MA
I teach in a graduate level social work program at Simmons College in Boston, MA. My best teaching day ever was in my Assessment and Diagnosis Class this summer, where students learn the inner workings of psychiatric diagnosis. This course can be a total snooze, but not this day!
The students role-played diagnostic characteristics in a totally twisted version of charades/pictionary/heads up. Graduate students acting out word-salad, flight of ideas, catatonia, and paranoid delusions galore - slow clap it out. The intention of the assignment to teach mental status evaluation and help students internalize the meaning of what otherwise can seem like clinical jargon.
A day in the life....
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