Students will submit a 15-20 page typewritten major paper that focuses on a particular mental disorder and the indicated etiology, assessment, and treatment of the treatment of that disorder. References should be as follows: Academic resources, primarily journal articles and research studies. No more than two (2) references may be Psychiatric journals, no blogs, editorials, etc., and most should be from American Psychological Association or American Counseling Association affiliated journals. References should be recent (last 5 years), but you may cite a seminal article or you may have one review paper.
* If you don’t understand it, don’t write it. Anyone can copy a bunch of statistical tests and results in an attempt to fill out the page count. Write what you understand to be the significance of the results.
After reviewing the papers, give an overview of the current status of etiology, diagnosis, and treatment of the assigned disorder.
A. What are the limitations of the research done so far?
B. Are the results of the different papers consistent enough that a clear picture emerges of the characteristics and treatments for this disorder?
C. A well-written paper will give a good understanding of the studies conducted and
what results were obtained, as well as your perspective on the "state of the art":
D. Do not get all your information for the paper from a book chapter or a large review
paper (a meta-study: one that describes the research of many others rather than reporting on an actual study). It's OK to use a review paper or book chapter as one reference and to give yourself some perspective, but you should get into some actual recent clinical, research reports. You need to be able to report in your paper some information about how the research was conducted and what results were obtained, NOT just some other reviewer's interpretation of what the results mean. Analyze each of the reports critically.
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