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Please review the scoring guide to complete the assignment. Proficient work must be submitted to pass. Write a 3–5 page speech for Mental Health Awareness Week that uses a popular film to illustrate a psychological disorder. Professionals in psychology are often called upon to provide education and awareness on a wide variety of topics, in order to encourage the public to recognize mental health issues and seek help. For this assessment, you will consider a mental health problem depicted in the media and develop a speech to raise awareness about the disorder. The resources provided here are optional and support the assessment. They provide helpful information about the topics. You may use other resources of your choice to prepare for this assessment; however, you will need to ensure that they are appropriate, credible, and valid. The can help direct your research. The Supplemental Resources and Research Resources, both linked from the left navigation menu in your courseroom, provide additional resources to help support you. Psychological disorders are organized in categories in the (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Some of the categories are mood disorders, personality disorders, anxiety disorders, dissociative disorders, psychotic disorders, and eating disorders. In popular culture, psychological disorders are presented often (with varying degrees of accuracy). The film, was based on the true story of John Nash, who suffered from schizophrenia. depicted a man with obsessive-compulsive disorder, and was based on the true story of a young woman with dissociative identity disorder. Choose a movie, TV

show, or book about a character with a mental illness. If you are having a difficult time thinking of a movie or TV show, the following list may give you an idea: Identify the psychological disorder depicted in your chosen media resource, for example: Using professional and scholarly sources from the Capella library, research the biological treatments and psychotherapeutic treatments for the disorder. Select two original scholarly articles that studied the effectiveness of a particular treatment for the disorder. Focus your research on the etiology (causes) of the disorder and consider whether the causes are more biological or environmental in nature, or both. Based on what you learn from these studies, you will discuss the effectiveness of this treatment for the disorder. In your role as a psychology professional for a school district, you have been asked  to provide a short speech on a psychological disorder and treatment for your local high school as part of Mental Health Awareness Week. The school district has asked you to use popular media as an example to help keep the students’ attention. In 3–5 pages, address the following topics related to your chosen psychological disorder in your speech notes: Provide support for your discussion, citing relevant scholarly resources. You may use the assessment example, linked in the Assessment Example section of the Resources, to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like. You may choose to save this learning activity to your ePortfolio. American Psychiatric Association. (2013). (5th ed.). Arlington, VA: Author.