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Contemporary Theory Presentation Topic Selection Assignment Instructions

Overview

You are picking a topic for the Discussion: Contemporary Theory Presentation. Below are some sample theories you can select. Note that some of these theories are broad, general ones, while others are targeted to particular disorders:

Instructions

1. Select a topic from the below list that you will use for your presentation:

· Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (James P. McCullough, Jr.)—A new approach to deal with Chronic Depression

· Behavior Activation Therapy for Depression (Christopher Martell, Michael Addis, & others)—An approach to deal with depression

· The Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders (David Barlow and colleagues)

· Emotion-Focused Individual Therapy (Leslie Greenberg, etc.)

· Emotion-Focused Couple’s Therapy (Sue Johnson, etc.)

· Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (Steven Hayes, etc.)

· Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing

· Cognitive Processing Therapy (a treatment for trauma)

· Prolonged Exposure Therapy

· Trauma-Focused CBT for children and adolescents

· Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for attachment and trauma issues (Pat Ogden and Janina Fisher main developers, be sure not to confuse this with body work that involves touch. Ogden & Fisher’s approach does not involve touch)

· Dialectical Behavior Therapy (Marsha Linehan)—A new approach to address Borderline Personality Disorder

· Everette Worthington & Jennifer Ripley’s Hope-Focused Marriage Counseling

· Robert Enright’s Forgiveness Counseling Model

· Everette Worthington’s Forgiveness Counseling Model

2. Write down the topic along with a reason for your selection. This should be no longer than a paragraph and does not have to follow current APA format.

Please see the Contemporary Theory Presentation Topic Selection Assignment page under the Contemporary Theory Presentation Topic Selection Resources on how to avoid “death by PowerPoint.”

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.