PY5310: Approaches to Psychotherapy
SUNY/College at Old Westbury
Dr. F. Michler Bishop
Major Assignment 2
Due April 24, 2017
Directions: Use formal, APA style in this paper. Do not use semi-formal or informal styles.
What is the best evidenced-based treatment for one of the following?
- Depression
- Bi-polar
- Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
- Panic attacks
- Social Phobia(s)
- PTSD
- OCD
- Alcohol abuse
- Marijuana abuse
- Quitting cigarettes
- Sex addiction
- Parenting problems
- Couples/marital problems
- Procrastination
- ADHD
- Psychosis
Part I: Literature Review. At this date, what is/are the best evidenced-based approach(es) for treating X (your topic choice)? What is the evidence? Include a discussion of at least three peer-reviewed articles.
(2-3 pp.)
Part II: Effective, Evidence-based Techniques. Discuss a variety of evidence-based techniques that you might use with a client who has this disorder. (2-3 pp.)
Part III: (Optional) Possibly Effective Techniques. Researchers have not investigated all the techniques that psychotherapists use. This is partly because the Federal government has not funded such research yet. But you may include a discussion of one or more such techniques, if you like. But this is optional.
(1-3 pp)
Part IV: Make up a therapist-client dialog to illustrate one technique (2-3 pp.)
Other Notes:
- Include subtitles: Part I, Literature Review; Part II: Effective, Evidence-based Techniques, etc.
- You may read online articles, including Wikipedia articles, but definitely do NOT cite Wikipedia. In addition, be careful about the other online articles you cite.
- Be careful not to plagiarize. Translate what you have read into your own words.
- Include correct, APA-style in-text citations and an APA-style Reference section.
- Include page numbers in your in-text citations only if you quote.
- Always introduce your quotations, but se direct quotations only sparingly, if at all. (You have probably noticed that writers do not often use quotations in professional articles and chapters.)
- Attach hard copies of the articles you use.
- Make sure that your citations and references and the articles that you give me all match up. That is, you should not cite a study that you do not have listed in your reference section, and you should not list a study in your reference section that you have not cited. In addition, you should not list a study in the reference section without giving me a copy of it (or, at a minimum, a copy of the abstract).