Question 1: Book: Moes & Tellinghuisen Ch. 15
How do you explain the type of suffering that some people experience with mental illness? Why does God allow people to have these difficulties?
Question 2: Psychological Disorders (Book: Myers & Dewall, Modules 40-45)
Pick three psychological disorders and identify a character in a movie or television show that you believe meets the criteria for the psychological disorder.
For each disorder, describe the character and what behaviors he/she displays.
Be sure to be descriptive. In addition, describe how this disorder interferes with his/her life as well as how he/she has adapted to the disorder.
Question 3: Book: Moes & Tellinghuisen Ch. 16
Think about the various attitudes that Christians have expressed about therapy that were described in this chapter. Where would you, your family, and your community (for example, FPU or your church) fit on that list of attitudes? In what ways have these views been helpful or harmful to you?
Question 4: Media Portrayals of Therapy (Book: Myers & Dewall, Modules 40-45)
Media has the ability to powerfully influence our views, particularly for experiences we have never had, both in positive and negative ways. Unfortunately, media often portrays therapy and therapists in unrealistic and even time, demeaning ways.
Think of at least one television show or movie that portrays psychotherapy in a positive light. That is, how do they depict therapy in ways that is accurate and gives the viewer a sense of what therapy might, in fact, be like. Describe what aspects of this portrayal make it accurate or somewhat accurate.
Conversely, find one example from movies or television that depict psychotherapy in a negative or inaccurate way. Describe what they could do differently to correct the inaccuracies.