Area of Study/Module: The Good, The Bad and The Mental Nature of task: Research Task Outcomes to be assessed: 5. 6analyses attitudes, behaviours and consequences related to health issues affecting young people 5. 8 critically analyses health information, products and services to promote health You will be assessed on your ability to: • Demonstrate knowledge of a specific mental illness, including symptoms, triggers and treatments • Identify relevant support services available Task description: You are required to research a specific mental health illness.
These illnesses include: Anxiety Disorders (Vidot), Bi Polar Disorder (Williams), Depression (Condon and Hickey), Schizophrenia (Dunn), Bulimia (Schell) and Anorexia (Miletic). You will be required to present the information as a Wiki (www. wikispaces. com) (Students will not have access to wiki through school internet). The link needs to be sent to your teacher’s DET email: ________________________________________________ Construct your Wiki using pictures, sounds, text, video etc, which address the following:
1) Identify and describe the nature of the mental illness. 2) Outline the signs and symptoms of the mental illness. 3) Investigate the prevalence of the mental illness in Australia. 4) Propose appropriate support networks (at least 3) available in the local area. 5 a) On your Wiki, attach a form of media (video, movie, poem, song, news article, interview etc) that discusses the mental illness you are researching. b) Analyse the behaviour/emotion/language of your subject in relation to your mental health issue. Marking Criteria:
|Criteria |Marks | |Provides clear and accurate characteristics of the issue using different forms of media (e. g. text, music pictures) |10 – 9 | |Indicates the main features of the illness by identifying the signs and symptoms | | |Inquires into the current statistics relating to the illness | | |Identifies the relationship between behaviour/emotion/language depicted in chosen media and the mental illness using specific examples | | |
Provides clear and accurate characteristics of the issue using different forms of media (e.g. text, music pictures) |8 – 6 | |Indicates the main features of the illness by identifying the signs and symptoms | | |Inquires into the current statistics relating to the illness | | |Identifies the relationship between behaviour/emotion/language depicted in chosen media and the mental illness | | |Provides some characteristics of the issue using different forms of media (e. g.text, music, pictures) |5 – 3 | |
Identifies some signs and symptoms of the illness | | |Identifies statistics related to mental illness | | |Describes behaviour/emotion/language depicted in the media form chosen | | |Provides some characteristics of the issue using different forms of media (e. g. text, music, pictures) OR |2 – 1 | |Identifies some signs and symptoms of the illness OR | | |Identifies statistics related to mental illness | | |No relevant information |0 | |Evidence that it is not the student’s own work | | TOTAL MARK:/10.
COMMENTS: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ———————– Course Name: PDHPE Year: 10 Due date for completion of task: In Health Class Term 2 Week 9.