Read
the following articles, which can be accessed through the ProQuest database in
the Ashford University Library:
- Evidence-based practice in psychology: Implications for research and research training.
- Practice-based evidence: Back to the future.
- Psychological treatments: Putting evidence into practice and practice into evidence.
Write a
three- to four-page article review in which you discuss methodological issues
unique to psychological research and analyze basic applied psychological
research relevant to the treatment of mental disorders. In your paper, you will
discuss the topics of evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence and
their roles in providing practitioners useful information for making decisions
about appropriate mental health treatments.
In the body of your paper:
In the body of your paper:
1.
Discuss the methodological issues and challenges that are unique
to psychological research investigating effective treatments for psychological
disorders.
2.
Explain the concepts of evidence-based practice and practice-based
evidence and identify controversies associated with these concepts.
3.
Select one treatment modality associated with a disorder in the DSM-5 and present at least one
example of pertinent, applied psychological research investigating the efficacy
of the treatment modality. Discuss the findings of the research. Locate at
least one peer-reviewed article that contains a research study on a treatment
modality to fulfill this requirement. You may not use any of the course
materials.
4.
Take the point of view of Bauer (2007) to analyze the article(s)
you selected in #3. Using this author’s arguments from his Evidence-Based
Practice in Psychology: Implications for Research and Research Training article, what would be
his evaluation of the article(s) you selected?
5.
Take the point of view of Brendtro, Mitchell, & Doncaster
(2011) and analyze the article(s) you selected in #3. Using these authors’
arguments from their Practice-Based Evidence: Back to the Future article, what would be
their evaluation of the article(s) you selected?
6.
Discuss ways in which an evidence-based practice model might
provide practitioners useful information for making decisions about the degree
to which the treatment modality you selected in #3 is an appropriate treatment
for the disorder you specified.
7.
Conclude your paper with a discussion of your opinion of the
utility of evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence for
practitioners needing to identity effective treatments for psychological
disorders.
8.
Utilize a minimum of two additional peer-reviewed journal articles
published within the last five years (not including the course text or any of
the course materials). At least one article must be used to satisfy the
requirement in #3, and at least one article must also be included to support
your arguments. All sources must be documented in APA style, as outlined by the
Ashford Writing Center.
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