Final Project Submission
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Final Project Submission
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LAURA HADDOCK: You’ve been developing your expertise in a particular
intervention through exploration of published literature. And now, you’re going to
apply that information to a case study. To demonstrate that you understand how
to go into the literature, identify current empirical evidence to support your
decision-making as a counselor, you will develop a polished research paper that
applies your findings to the case study.
A guide has been provided for you on the worksheet. You should transfer the
headings into an APA formatted research paper. At the beginning of your paper,
following your cover page, you want to write a brief introduction which provides
an overview of the case study you chose, the client you’re focusing on, and what
mental health disorder you are going to approach treatment with for this client.
Then, you’re going to also explain what intervention you’re investigating. And you
need to provide some information in your introduction that gives some
background information and some scholarly support for your project.
So, for example, we’ve been speaking of the case study with the combat veteran
who’s presenting with PTSD symptoms. And if you chose to utilize exposure
therapy as your intervention, then in your introduction, after you introduce your
case study and your client, when you’re describing the mental health disorder of
PTSD, you would want to give a little bit of information– perhaps some data–
about the occurrence of PTSD among combat veterans. And support that with a
scholarly source.
When you identify the intervention that you’re investigating, again, you want to
give a brief description. And you want to support your description with scholarly
research. This might come from a textbook. It might come from a journal article.
But essentially, you want to make sure your introduction is rich and validates
your choices.
Next, you’re going to list your approved research question. Remember, that you
received feedback in week one, which indicated whether your question was
approved or needed to be revised. Make sure that you include the approved
question.
Finally, describe the search strategy that you used to identify your articles. The
most important thing to remember is that this project is an application of research
to a case study. So when you develop your annotations, you want to
demonstrate that you’ve learned how to analyze articles identifying the most
important components and writing a summary of each one.
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You’re going to write one or two paragraphs, which provides an overview of the
article in your own words, and make sure to include the critical elements of the
purpose of the research, the question that was being investigated, any ethical or
cultural considerations, the population that was included, what sort of data was
collected, how they analyzed the data, and what their findings were.
One key to remember is that you want to make sure you tell your reader what the
answer to the research question was that those researchers were investigating.
After you annotate each article will be where you apply those findings to your
case study. You are essentially articulating evidence-based practice.
You’re going to give an overall summary of the findings for all three articles you
analyzed. Then, in your own words, describe the outcomes of what the studies
found, and make your own judgment as to whether the intervention is a good fit
for your client. Make sure you clearly answer your approved research question.
If the topics in your articles were related but don’t match, you’ll want to provide
some rationale for how you drew your conclusions to answer the questions.
Remember, the purpose of this paragraph is for you to describe how you would
use this information for the work with the client that you chose in the case study.
You want to give a specific example of clinical work that you would do based on
the information that you found in the literature.
Finally, you’ll finish your paper by writing one preliminary treatment goal for your
client that shows how you might go about using the intervention that you’ve
chosen in practice. And you’ll wrap it up with a reference page that cites all the
resources that you’ve utilized to support your project. And then, you’ll upload and
submit, and you will be done. If you have any questions or concerns, make sure
to reach out to your faculty member who will be happy to provide you with any
needed support.
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