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Pleasure
1. Define pleasure. Is pleasure just a feeling state?
2. Discuss the implications of pleasure-seeking to mental health as presented in the textbook. How do pleasure seeking-activities increase well-being? Support your answer with examples of activities.
3. Discuss the negative effects of pleasure-seeking activities on mental health (e.g., drug use.
4. What is the relationship between pleasure and mental illness? Support your answer with examples from the textbook.
5. How do positive psychology and human growth movement view pleasure?
6. How do religious traditions view pleasure? Provide examples of religious practices that emphasize the denial or restriction of pleasure.
7. How does evolutionary psychology view pleasure?
Creativity
1. Define creativity.
2. Discuss the link between creativity and abnormality. Is mental illness an impediment to creativity or is it its source? Provide examples of creative people who were mentally ill. Did you know that?
3. Why some artistic people are likely to develop mental illness? What kind of stresses or challenges do they face?
4. How does depth psychology explain the source of creativity and mental abnormality? In your response refer to Sigmund Freud and Melanie Klein.
5. How did existentialists (e.g., Rollo May) view creativity?
6. Discuss the social framing of creativity. For example, how does collective adversity affect creativity? What does it mean that creativity is contingent on its social context? Support your answer with examples for the textbook.
Childhood Adversity
1. Define childhood adversity.
2. Provide examples of extra-familial and intra-familial stressors in childhood adversity. Which of them are most common? Does most abuse take place inside or outside families?
3. Describe the effects of sexual victimization in childhood on mental health. Who are the perpetrators of sexual abuse in childhood?
4. Discuss the effects of childhood adversity on mental health in long term. What are the common mental problems caused by childhood adversity? Support your answer with examples from the textbook.
Attachment Theory
1. Define attachment theory. Who developed it? When did it originate?
2. What is the key feature of the attachment theory? How does this theory explain the causes of mental health problems?
3. How did the study of animal behavior inform attachment theory?
4. Describe the research findings that support of Attachment Theory.
5. How did Bowlby's research influence changes in welfare policies? For example, the hospice movement?
6. How did Mary Ainsworth's research contribute to Attachment Theory?
7. What are the phases of separation response according to Bowlby?
8. Why do some feminists criticize attachment theory?