Oklahoma Social Studies PS.7.1
The Standard
- PS.7
- Examine mental disorders and the factors that promote mental and physical health.
Examine how psychologists use integrated approaches and evidence-based practices to understand and treat psychological disorders.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · PS.7
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students use biological, psychological, and social clues to explain how a disorder may develop or persist. They compare treatments using research evidence and explain why a clinician might combine approaches.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a social anxiety case, a student identifies sleep, fear of judgment, and peer reactions as factors to investigate, not proven causes. They use research findings to explain why a clinician might consider therapy, medication, or both.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume every disorder has one cause or that one treatment works for everyone. They may treat a testimonial as proof or think a short case description is enough to diagnose someone.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A fictional teen with diagnosed social anxiety skips presentations and sleeps poorly. Name one biological, psychological, and social factor to investigate, then suggest a treatment and say what evidence you would check.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a fictional anxiety case and three cards labeled body, thoughts, and surroundings; have them sort clues and list missing information.
Ask students to write: Why might a clinician pair cognitive behavioral therapy with support at home for this fictional teen?
Run a claim sort with study summaries, treatment guidelines, and testimonials; students rank the evidence and defend one choice.
Compare an anxiety therapy ad with a treatment guideline excerpt; students highlight supported claims and flag unsupported promises.
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- PS.7
Examine mental disorders and the factors that promote mental and physical health.
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