Learning Objectives
• To know the main characteristics of the
three types of phobia
• To understand the key features of a
‘phobia’
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Do now: look at your specification
for this new topic: what do you
already know that might be useful
in your learning?
the post it and stick
it on the progress
arrow according to
what you already
know about our
objectives!!
Don’t have your spec? – WHY
NOT?!
• Individual Differences (anxiety disorders)
• 3.2.5 Anxiety Disorders Phobias: definition and symptoms.
Agoraphobia, social phobias and specific phobias.
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder: definition and symptoms. The
distinction between obsession and compulsion.
• Explanations of phobias including behavioural and psychodynamic.
• Explanations of OCD including biological and cognitive.
• Treatments for phobias including systematic desensitisation and
psychodynamic therapy.
• Treatments for OCD including drug therapy and cognitive therapy.
• Evaluation of treatments for anxiety disorders.
Starter – how might this image
relate to our new topic of phobias?
What do you
recall about
the specifics
of the fight or
flight
response?
Atypical
Introduction
Situational
• In your groups of three you have an example of
a specific phobia
• Your job is going to be to act it out so that the
rest of the class can guess what the phobia
consists of!
• Each phobia is representative of a category of
specific phobias in something called the DSMIVR (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual which
is used to identify and classify mental disorders)
Animal
Natural Environment
Blood / injection / injury
Natural Environment
• hydrophobia – a fear of water
• acrophobia – a fear of heights Natural Environment
• claustrophobia – a fear of enclosed
spaces
Situational
• arachnophobia – a fear of spiders (and
Animal
other arachnids, e.g. scorpions)
• haemophobia – a fear of blood Blood / injection / injury
Atypical
• emetophobia – a fear of being sick
• cynophobia – a fear of dogs
Animal
Learning Objectives
• To know the main characteristics of the
three types of phobia
• To understand the key features of a
‘phobia’
PROGRESS CHECK!
What have you learnt? Can you
progress towards our objectives?
Main task: Marketplace
• Use the information sheets to explain the scenarios you
have been given
• Each group also has a general question which has been
asked about phobias they must answer in terms of
phobias
• One person will remain in the group – they are the
‘seller’ of the information
• The rest of the group will go and ‘buy’ information from
the other ‘stalls’
• Then they will come back and share with the seller what
they have learnt!
• Remember the focus is on you explaining the information
Learning Objectives
• To know the main characteristics of the
three types of phobia
• To understand the key features of a
‘phobia’
PROGRESS CHECK!
What have you learnt? Can you
progress towards our objectives?
Plenary
• What were our learning objectives?
• How have we met them?
• What is the key aspect you will remember
from today’s lesson?
Progress Check: 12B
See if you can answer the following questions based on the
learning from yesterday’s lesson
1. What are the 3 types of phobia
2.
Why is someone who has a ‘slight fear’ of rabbits not
classed as suffering from a phobia?
If you can answer these two questions you are at the top
part of the arrow!
3. What are the characteristics of the 3 types of phobia?
If you can answer question 1,2 and 3 you are as good as it
gets at the very top of the arrow!!