A thorough discussion of each instrument you review for your construct, including the name of the test, what the test is used for, whether the test is appropriate for this area, what the reliability and validity of the test is, and what reviewers say about the strengths and weaknesses of it with regard to assessing this construct

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This assignment is the second step toward completing your Final Test Development Proposal in Week 6.  Using your construct of interest from Week 1 and building upon the instruments and information you found in Step One (Week 1), develop a 7-8 page literature review (not including the title page, abstract, and references page) on your construct of interest and the 5-7 instruments used to assess it. Thus, the literature review should explain your construct of interest thoroughly, as well as provide thorough reviews of the 5-7 instruments used to measure it. This is slightly different from other literature reviews, whereby the idea is to review and critique the study and findings. For this literature review you are not reviewing the study but rather are reviewing and critiquing the instrument based on what studies and other researchers have found. The idea here is to review the instrument and its usefulness in measuring your construct. Thus, what does the instrument measure, how reliable and valid is it, and what are its strengths and weaknesses?  What is lacking in the instrument which paves the way for the necessity of your newly developed instrument? How are these instruments different from what you will develop?

Use the Forbush, Wildes, Pollack, Dunbar, Patterson and  Watson (2013) Development and validation of the Eating Pathology Symptoms Inventory (EPSI) and the O’Neill, and Sevastos (2013) The development and validation of a new multidimensional Job Insecurity Measure (JIM): An inductive methodology articles for examples of how to conduct literature reviews of current or previous instruments/tests.

Use 5-7 scholarly resources, including mostly research studies and articles related to your construct and the instruments used to measure it. Information should be drawn from appropriate sources, such as professional journals, test publisher websites, and dissertations. Information gathered from sources must be appropriately cited, following APA guidelines.

Please be sure to include the following in your literature review:

  • A discussion of your construct of interest.
  • A thorough discussion of each instrument you review for your construct, including the name of the test, what the test is used for, whether the test is appropriate for this area, what the reliability and validity of the test is, and what reviewers say about the strengths and weaknesses of it with regard to assessing this construct
  • What, in general, appears to be adequately assessed on each test with respect to the construct that you selected?
  • What does not appear to be adequately assessed?

Your literature review should justify your development of an assessment—is there a hole in what is currently being assessed that you can fill with your test? Make a case for why your proposed test would address an area that is not already well assessed.

Describe general prevention strategies implemented by clinical and counseling psychologists at the micro, meso, exo, and macro levels.

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Literature Review

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read the Ryder, Ban, & Chentsova-Dutton (2011) “Towards a Cultural-Clinical Psychology,” American Psychological Association (2014) “Guidelines for Prevention in Psychology,” Hage, et al. (2007) “Walking the Talk: Implementing the Prevention Guidelines and Transforming the Profession of Psychology,” and Rivera-Mosquera, et al. (2007) “Prevention Activities in Professional Psychology: A Reaction to the Prevention Guidelines” articles.

Clinical and counseling psychology is a dynamic field that is constantly evolving and striving toward better treatment options and modalities. In this literature review, you will explore and integrate psychological research into a literature review, addressing current trends in three major areas of clinical and counseling psychology: assessment, clinical work, and prevention.

In your review, include the following headings, and address the required content.

Assessment
Support this section with information from the Ryder et al. (2011) article “Towards a Cultural-Clinical Psychology” and at least one additional peer-reviewed article from the Ashford University Library.

  • Compare the assessments currently in use by clinical and counseling psychologists.
  • Explain the trend towards cultural-clinical psychology and the suitability of clinical assessments with diverse clients.

Clinical work
Support this section using a minimum of three peer-reviewed articles from the Ashford University Library. The recommended articles for this week may be useful in generating your response.

  • Compare and contrast technical eclecticism, assimilative integration and theoretical integration.
  • Provide a historical context and identify the major theorists for each perspective.
  • Assess the trends in psychotherapy integration.
  • List three pros and cons for each perspective, sharing which perspective most closely aligns with your own.
  • Analyze the major trends in psychology and explain the connection between evidenced-based practices and psychotherapy integration.

Prevention
Review the “Guidelines for Prevention in Psychology” (American Psychological Association, 2014), and support this section with information from the Hage, et al. (2007) “Walking the Talk: Implementing the Prevention Guidelines and Transforming the Profession of Psychology,” and Rivera-Mosquera, et al. (2007) “Prevention Activities in Professional Psychology: A Reaction to the Prevention Guidelines” articles.

  • Describe general prevention strategies implemented by clinical and counseling psychologists at the micro, meso, exo, and macro levels.

The Literature Review

  • Must be 7 to 10 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must use at least seven peer-reviewed sources in addition to the course text.
  • Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

How will you evaluate whether the group’s purpose/ goals have been achieved? How will you evaluate your role as the facilitator in engaging, assessing and intervening with this group?

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Psycho-educational IMR (illness management recovery) group therapy paper

 

Assignment Overview:

Successful groups are well designed from the outset. They have a clear purpose and are delivered with a plan. This assignment provides students the opportunity to prepare a proposal for a new group that you would like to conduct with a target population of interest to you. Your task it to describe the planning and delivery of a well thought-out group, describing the key factors required from conception through final evaluation.

Format:

  • The paper should be 10 pages +/-2.
  • A title page including student name, class and section, professor, and title of assignment is required.
  • Use the section headings below to structure your paper.
  • Include the honor statement on the title page. On my honor, I have neither received nor given any unauthorized assistance on this examination.
  • No abstract or running head is necessary.
  • Do not use initials or real names to identify your clients. All names in the paper should be pseudonyms.
  • You may use “I” and “we” and should use a direct and academically appropriate style of writing.
  • Grammar and syntax matter and will constitute a portion of the grade. Write in a clear and engaging manner.
  • Include your last name in the title of digital files.

References

  • The paper should be guided by course readings and other relevant literature and must include 3-5 references at minimum, one of which is the Yalom & Leszcz text (with year and page numbers).
  • APA 6 reference and citation style is required.
  • Literature supporting your choices of format, approach, and interventions should be liberally sprinkled throughout the paper.
  • In your appendix, if you use handouts from published resources or materials from a group with which you have been involved, you must cite the resources appropriately.
  • For in-text citation (e.g. the Yalom book), be sure to include the page numbers when citing books, e.g. (Yalom, 2005, pp. 32–33).

Paper Outline:

Section 1-Title, Purpose, Format of the Group:

  • Name of group and why that title was chosen.
  • Define your group as one of the following types: mutual support, psychoeducational, or therapy.
  • Explain why this group is needed.
  • Cite literature supporting use of the model and/or type of group you are using and why it is well matched to the target population.
  • State the goals of the group.
  • What is the plan for the number, frequency, length, and time of meetings and what is the rationale for those decisions?
  • Identify whether the group is open or closed in terms of population and whether it is a fixed number of sessions or on-going (and why). Discuss the pros & cons of your chosen format.
  • Describe your role as a leader or co-leader, and what you will do in that role (active, reflective, educative etc.).

Section 2- Group Conditions:

  • What physical space, financial, child-care, transportation, food or other arrangements will need to be considered?
  • If necessary, how will you advocate for what you need to run the group?
  • Describe how you will plan for your group sessions.
  • Include an appendix with a sample outline for at least three group sessions and the major topics to be covered (if defined topics are part of your group).

Section 3-Recruitment, Engagement:

Recruitment

  • Who is the population you are trying to recruit and what demographic or personal history qualities affect the likelihood that they will connect to the group?
  • What screening procedures will you use for inclusion/ exclusion?
  • What intersectional identities are in play and how will the blend of potential participants be influenced by demographic and cultural characteristics?
  • What problems do you anticipate with recruitment, permissions, or screening?

Engagement

  • How will you orient and engage the group at the first meeting?
  • How will you manage issues of power and privilege, including your own?
  • How will you work with differences of race, gender, economic status, age, education levels or other personal characteristics of group members, particularly in conjunction with your own intersectional position and privilege?
  • What challenges do you anticipate in engaging the group members?

Section 4- Group Interventions and Cohesion:

  • What intervention modalities do you expect to use most often?
  • Be sure the interventions are appropriate for the type of group you are running. For example, if this is a mutual support group, specific facilitation skills are more likely to be a customary intervention, mini-lectures may be part of a psychoeducation group, while in a psychotherapeutic group, reflection might be a regularly used intervention. Be detailed about your interventions.
  • Include references from the literature to support the use of this type of treatment for your population. If there is no evidence base for your population, cite evidence from the closest population and note the lack of research relating to your target population.
  • How will you promote group cohesion?
  • Name two potential challenging scenarios that may arise and describe how you would intervene to manage them.

Section 5- Evaluation:

  • How will you assess how the group is functioning over time?
  • How will you evaluate whether the group’s purpose/ goals have been achieved?
  • How will you evaluate your role as the facilitator in engaging, assessing and intervening with this group?
  • Summary of why this proposed group should take place.

Grading Rubric for Group Paper (30 points)

  • 5 points Writing and References: (grammar and syntax; APA references)
  • 5 points Purpose and Format
  • 5 points Group Conditions
  • 5 points  Recruitment and Engagement
  • 5 points Group Interventions and Cohesion
  • 5 points Evaluation

Summarize the results of the study. Be certain to specify the findings and whether or not the hypotheses were supported. Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the study (usually found in the discussion section of the article).

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Article RAeview

The purpose of an article review is to provide the academic community with a description, summary, and evaluation of the completed work. For the article review, students will assume the role of an expert who is critically evaluating contemporary research in the field of psychology. Students will incorporate material from across the course, analyzing and applying theories and principles of psychology, into a cohesive and well-written article review. This learning activity will facilitate the development of research skills, critical thinking, and writing skills that are necessary to success in the field of psychology. The article for review was chosen in Week Two of the course and must be used in this review. Carefully read the selected article, and then write the Article Review.

  • Begin with a well-written introduction to the article that:
  • Analyzes the article and identifies the professional area of psychology it represents
  • Assesses the roles of psychology professionals within this area and describes whether or not the article clearly and correctly represents these roles.
  • Evaluate the theoretical perspective on which the study is based
  • Detail the hypotheses presented in the study or the relationship of interest
  • Describe the sample(s) presented in the study (how participants were obtained, selected, sample size, etc.)
  • Discuss where the study was conducted: university setting (lab), organization (field), etc.
  • Examine the ethical concerns in the study using the APA Ethical Principles and Code of Conduct as a guide.
  • Summarize the results of the study. Be certain to specify the findings and whether or not the hypotheses were supported.
  • Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the study (usually found in the discussion section of the article).
  • Evaluate possible contemporary applications of the results within the article
  • Create a conclusion that includes a synopsis of professional insights about the study.

In the creation of the Article Review, it is paramount to include information in the form of peer-reviewed research to support any statements made. A minimum of five peer-reviewed articles, not including the article chosen for this assignment, are required for this paper.Attention Students: The Masters of Arts in Psychology program is utilizing the Pathbrite portfolio tool as a repository for student scholarly work in the form of signature assignments completed within the program. After receiving feedback for this Article Review, please implement any changes recommended by the instructor, go to Pathbrite (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and upload the revised Article Review to the portfolio. (Use the Pathbrite Quick-Start Guidehttps://ashford.instructure.com/images/preview.pnghttps://ashford.instructure.com/images/popout.png to create an account if you do not already have one.) The upload of signature assignments will take place after completing each course. Be certain to upload revised signature assignments throughout the program as the portfolio and its contents will be used in other courses and may be used by individual students as a professional resource tool. See the Pathbrite (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. website for information and further instructions on using this portfolio tool.Writing the Final Paper The Final Paper:

  • Must be three to five double-spaced pages in length and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include a title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
  • Must begin with an introductory paragraph that includes an analysis of the article and identification of the professional area of psychology it represents, as well as an assessment of the clear description of the roles of psychology professionals within the area presented.
  • Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
  • Must end with a conclusion that includes a synopsis of professional insights about the study.
  • Must use at least five peer-reviewed sources, including a minimum of two from the Ashford University Library. The article being reviewed will not count toward this total.
  • Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
  • Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.