Oklahoma Social Studies PS.7.2
The Standard
- PS.7
- Examine mental disorders and the factors that promote mental and physical health.
Describe the symptoms and possible causes of categories of mental disorders, including neurodevelopmental, schizophrenic spectrum, depressive, bipolar, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, dissociative, trauma/stressor-related, eating, and personality disorders.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · PS.7
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify symptoms across ten categories of mental disorders. They describe possible contributing factors, such as inherited risk or stressful experiences, without treating any factor as a certain cause. They distinguish a category description from a diagnosis of a person.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given short fictional descriptions, students sort examples into the categories and point to the symptoms behind each choice. They explain that symptoms can overlap and that one clue cannot confirm a diagnosis.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may confuse schizophrenia with dissociative identity disorder or mistake bipolar disorder for ordinary mood changes. They may call neatness OCD or assume body size reveals an eating disorder. They may treat genes, trauma, or stress as a single proven cause.
How to Assess It
- Give three fictional cards showing persistent worry, a manic episode, and intrusive thoughts with repeated rituals. Ask students to label each category, underline a clue, and name one possible contributing factor for one card.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs ten fictional symptom cards and ten category labels; have them sort the cards and underline the clue on each.
Ask students to write two sentences explaining why one symptom cannot confirm a diagnosis in a fictional case.
Read a fictional case aloud; students hold up a category card and name one symptom that supports their choice.
Open the NIMH mental health topics page; students find one disorder and note where the page recommends seeking professional help.
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Examine mental disorders and the factors that promote mental and physical health.
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