Evidence-Based Practice

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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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