Unhealthy Choices and Injury Risk
Grade 9th Grade · Health · 75 min
What's Included
Learning Objective
I can evaluate how unhealthy behaviors can increase the risk of injury or illness.
Warm-Up Video
CrashCourse · 10:51
Trauma and Addiction: Crash Course Psychology #31
Guided Notes
3 key concepts
- 1
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychological disorder that can result from experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event, leading to symptoms like nightmares, flashbacks, and avoidance behaviors.
- 2
Addiction is defined as compulsive, excessive, and difficult-to-control substance use, or other initially pleasurable behavior that begins to interfere with ordinary life, work, health, or relationships.
- 3
The Dual Diagnosis Model of treatment addresses addiction that is rooted in deeper psychological issues, especially emotional trauma like PTSD, and requires some version of dual treatment to untangle both issues.
Practice Questions
12 questions · Multiple choice & Short answer & True/false
Exit Ticket
Quick comprehension check
“Explain how someone with PTSD might develop a substance abuse problem, and how this unhealthy behavior could worsen their PTSD symptoms.”
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