Depressive Disorders

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Depressive Disorders Assignment

General Instructions

Write a 3-5 page paper (length does not include the title page or reference page) that includes the following information:

• Identify the diagnosing criteria for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD).

• Identify the diagnosing criteria for Persistent Depressive Disorder (PDD).

• Discuss the primary differences between MDD and PDD

• Identify and discuss at least one evidenced-based intervention used in therapy to treat depressive disorder AND provide scholarly support for the intervention.

o Does the treatment for MDD differ from the treatment for PDD in therapy?

• For each disorder, identify one well known TV character that might be diagnosed with MDD and one character that might be diagnosed with PDD. Explain your rationale for picking each character. (Tip- an old cartoon that was released in the 1920's but was popular in the late 1980's has a character that is an animal and reflects PDD. This cartoon was recently made into a movie and was recently in theatres.)

Paper must include a title page and reference page. Format paper using APA style only. Use Times New Roman font size 12, double spaced

• Only Microsoft Word documents will be accepted for grading. Any other program used to complete this paper will be returned without a grade.

• Review the attached grading rubric for this assignment BEFORE you submit the paper for grading.

Scoring Guidelines

Points available: 100.

Component Unacceptable Acceptable Target

Identifies the diagnosing criteria for both Major

Depressive Disorder and Persistent Depressive

Disorder. (CACREP 5C.2.d)

Did not identify the diagnosing criteria for

either disorder. (0 points)

Only identified the diagnosing criteria for

one disorder OR did not identify all the criteria for one or both disorders.

(10 points)

Identified the diagnosing criteria for both

disorders. (20 points)

Discusses the differences between

major depressive disorder and persistent

depressive disorder. (CACREP 5C.2.d)

Did not discuss the differences between the two disorders. (0 points)

Discussion was extremely brief and provided very little

distinction between the two disorders.

(10 points)

Discussed the differences between the two disorder. Discussion was thorough and clearly

explained the differences. (20 points)

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Component Unacceptable Acceptable Target

Identified one evidenced- based intervention AND

provided scholarly support for the intervention.

(CACREP 5C.3.b)

Did not identify an evidenced-based

intervention. (0 points)

Identified an evidenced- based intervention but

did not provide scholarly support for the

intervention. (10 points)

Identified one evidenced- based intervention AND

provided scholarly support for the

intervention. (20 points)

Identified one TV character that might be diagnosed with major

depressive disorder and one TV character that

might be diagnosed with persistent depressive

disorder AND explained rationale for choice of

characters.

Did not identify a TV character that might be diagnosed with major depressive disorder or persistent depressive

disorder. (0 points)

Only identified a TV for one disorder OR did not provide a rationale for choice of character for one or both disorders.

(10 points)

Identified one TV character that might be diagnosed with major

depressive disorder and one TV character that

might be diagnosed with persistent depressive

disorder AND explained rationale for choice of characters. (20 points)

Structure & Organization Missing thesis; confusion about or

misunderstanding of topic; no sense of

purpose; no paragraph structure; or single,

rambling paragraph; or series of isolated

paragraphs (0 points)

Simplistic and unfocused ideas; limited sense of

purpose; organization is confusing or disjointed;

weak paragraph structure; transitions are missing or inappropriate

(5 points)

Developed thesis; represents sound understanding of

assigned topic; focused; clear organizational

structure; easily followed; included transitions;

structured format (10 points)

Professional presentation (grammar,

mechanics, spelling)

Writing involves many errors (more than 3).

(0 points)

Writing involves few errors (no more than 2).

(5 points)

Writing is free of all writing errors. (10 points)