PSY/525 Team Assignment - Short Section

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Week 5 Learning Team Project

DUE DATE

This assignment is due on Monday, Day 7 of Week 5.

ASSIGNMENT

The Learning Team assignments for Weeks 4 and 5 are based on the article by Linden,

Baumann, Lieberei, & Rotter (2009) that is included with the assignments. (A second

article, Linden (2003), is also provided for background.) The article describes the

development of a scale to measure a clinical syndrome called post-traumatic embitterment

disorder (PTED). Your assignment is to create a two-part PowerPoint presentation

describing the development of the scale, based on the information in the article. You will

create Part 1 of the presentation for Week 4 and Part 2 for Week 5.

The table below describes the slides for you to include in Part 2 of the presentation. Note

that each topic might take more than one slide – for example, the discussion of VALIDITY

may require two or more slides to cover everything, so you would have two or more slides

with the title VALIDITY. Limit the total number of slides to 15, as described under FORMAT

SPECIFICATIONS below.

SLIDE TITLE CONTENTS

<none> An appropriate title page, including the names of team members

PRINCIPLE

COMPONENTS

ANALYSIS

* Describe the two factors that were defined

* Describe how the factors relate to the core dimensions of

embitterment

VALIDITY * Describe the evidence for discriminant validity

* Describe the evidence for convergent validity

(These types of validity are defined in Chapter 6 of your text.)

FIGURE 3 * Interpret the information in Figure 3

* Describe how the information in Figure 3 relates to the validity

of the scale

CUT-OFF SCORE * What scores on the PTED Scale indicate the presence of PTED?

* How was the cut-off score chosen?

SUMMARY OF RESULTS In one slide, summarize the reliability and validity results

VALUE OF THE PTED

SCALE

* Describe how the PTED Scale can be useful for clinicians

LIMITATIONS OF THE

STUDY

Describe

* the limitations described by the authors

* any additional limitations your team might add

TEAM’S EVALUATION

OF THE PTED SCALE

Based on what you’ve read, and what you’ve said in the other

slides, summarize your team’s evaluation of the PTED Scale

REFERENCES (In APA format.)

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RESOURCES

Linden, M. (2003). Posttraumatic embitterment disorder. Psychotherapy and

Psychosomatics, 72(4), 195-202.

Linden, M., Baumann, K., Lieberei, B., & Rotter, M. (2009). The Post-Traumatic

Embitterment Disorder Self-Rating Scale (PTED Scale). Clinical Psychology and

Psychotherapy, 16, 139-147.

FORMAT SPECIFICATIONS

· DOCUMENT TYPE REQUIRED: PowerPoint presentation (.PPT or .PPTX)

· LENGTH: 12 to 15 slides including the title slide and References slide

· APA FORMAT REQUIREMENTS: none except for References

· REFERENCE REQUIREMENTS: Include a References slide in APA format