Week 7 Assignment

Final Project Part 2: Applying Research to a Case Study

Final Project Part 2: Applying Research to a Case Study Program Transcript

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LAURA HADDOCK: Now it's time to complete part two of your final project worksheet. So far, you've identified your client, the mental health disorder, and the intervention that you wanted to investigate. So your next step will be to actually identify the empirical research or the professional literature that you intend to use to apply to your case study.

Now you need to identify three articles, and there are some guidelines that you need to follow when you're identifying your articles. First of all, they need to come from peer-reviewed counseling journals. I encourage you to be very cautious not to choose articles that are about topics or interventions that are outside your scope of practice.

In other words, if you are looking for an intervention related to cognitive behavior therapy, you don't want to identify articles that are about medication compliance, for example. You can't prescribe medication, so you don't want your emphasis to be on non-counseling interventions.

And you have to provide a rationale for why you choose your articles as you develop your project. The peer-reviewed articles need to have been published in the last 10 years.

One reason is because if you are looking to conduct evidence-based practice, you want to use current evidence. So if you use information that's outdated or not current, then it is not going to support your work.

So you want to choose articles that are as specifically related to your intervention, your mental health disorder, and your population as possible. It may be that you find relevant research about your intervention that does not necessarily apply to the article. You would have to speak when you summarize your findings, if for example, we're building on the previous case that we spoke of on exposure therapy with combat veterans diagnosed with PTSD.

Let's say that you find a terrific article about the use of exposure therapy with individuals who have phobias. Well, there might be some really relevant information in that article, and you might be able to justify using it, but keep in mind, you're going to need to speak to why you chose it as opposed to choosing something else related to combat veterans.

Do not use articles that contain a meta analysis. A meta analysis basically means that a researcher went into the literature, chose a variety of articles that were

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published about a particular intervention, and then condensed and synthesized all the findings.

While in some ways this is what you're doing, you're finding research by several different authors and you're applying it to one topic, you may find that analyzing the content of the articles becomes tricky because there's not a traditional population. The population are published articles or studies, so in order to help increase the potential for feasibility and success for you, don't use a meta analysis as one of your chosen articles.

Now, you're going to need to identify an APA-formatted citation, and you're going to need to identify what methodology is utilized in the article. In your final project, you have to have one article that uses quantitative methodology and one article that uses qualitative methodology.

The third article can be either or mixed methods or single subject research. But you also need to include a permalink so that your faculty member can verify that what you're submitting is accurate. If the recommendation was made for you to revise your research project, you should update your worksheet to reflect the revisions in part 1 as well as submitting the new information for part two.

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