Assessment task 4 report

Assessment task 4 report

BEHV1015 Psychology and Health

OverviewComplete a 1200-word report that critically evaluates psychological literature as it relates to a selected health topic. This report assesses your ability to review scholarly literature and critically evaluate the role of psychology in relation to a specific health issue.

Details

Individual or group: Individual

Format: Turnitin assignment

Weighting: 40%

Duration: 1200 words

Due date: Friday 10 pm in Week 10 via Turnitin

Learning outcomes: 2, 3, 4, 6

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REPORT Topic: Describe and explain the psychological intervention that appears to be most effective in treating or managing symptoms of Write the chosen condition here. Why is this approach more effective than others?

Introduction

Introduction to, and description of chosen illness, identifying the psychological element to the condition

Marking Criteria: Clear and concise description of an appropriate illness. The illness is explained in adequate detail, including a clear definition and identification of key concepts. Psychological element well integrated showing holistic understanding (4marks)

Opening paragraph

Identify and define the illness/condition you are going to discuss

Identify and define the psychological intervention that you will argue is the most effective in treating the illness/condition

Finish with a signposting statement that tells the reader what the rest of the paper hopes to achieve

For example, This paper will first discuss typical treatment options for [illness/condition] before arguing that [psychological intervention] may also be an effective approach to alleviating symptoms

For example, Here, it is argued that while [illness/condition] can be managed by [typical non-psychological approaches], integrating [psychological approach] into treatment plans may prove to be a more effective strategy in assisting individuals to manage the condition

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Typical treatment options

Typical treatment options of condition

Marking Criteria: Current treatments for the condition are concise, well considered and integrated within a holistic framework. Well-supported by current, reliable research. (4marks)

Paragraph two

Briefly explain the typical treatment options/approaches for alleviating symptoms of the illness condition

Remember to cite academic sources to support your statements. That is, if you argue that medical approaches are fairly effective in assisting the condition, make sure you cite an academic source that shows this information is accurate.

Conclude this paragraph with a statement that shows you have thought about why these treatments might not help all individuals affected by the condition, or why the approach is not always successful (e.g. why should we consider using psychological interventions?) o This statement serves as an important linking sentence between this paragraph and the next

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Psychological intervention

Psychological intervention: Description and appropriateness of chosen intervention

Marking Criteria: An appropriate intervention is identified and described clearly. The intervention is appropriate (i.e., is a known psychological) (8marks)

Paragraph three

Now begin to discuss the psychological intervention that might be successful in helping the condition

This paragraph might be somewhat theoretical, explaining what the approach is and what it involves. You might explain some of the following:

What does the intervention involve?

How is it administered?

How does it work?

Why, in theory, might he approach by useful in treating conditions like those you are discussing? Remember here that you still need to use academic sources as evidence for your statements.

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review of research

Review of research: Review of sufficient scholarly research on effectiveness of intervention

Marking Criteria: Reference to appropriate scholarly research is given, and the research reviewed is sufficient to support the claims made in the paper. All research is on topic and all explanations are given with reference to appropriate research finding (8 marks)

Paragraph four- five

In the next 1-2 paragraphs you should focus on discussing some studies that have set out to demonstrate that the intervention is effective.

In this section, tell the reader about experiments that have been conducted

How has the intervention been assessed? In what ways? With what populations (e.g. kinds of people)?

What specific aspects were found to be effective?

What kinds of symptoms have been demonstrated to improve after the intervention/treatment?

Try to look for similarities and points of comparisons across studies that were conducted

You might use sentences like: [authors] found [intervention] to be effective in alleviating [specific symptoms] in [specific groups of people] after [a certain number of months, or rounds of treatment etc]. Similarly, [authors] report [decreases/increases] in [symptom/behaviour] after [intervention], however [some point of comparison between the two studies]. By contrast, [symptoms/behaviours] showed no change after [treatment] for [groups of people/ or duration of treatment/ or type of approach] [authors]

Try to think about why the intervention works sometimes and not others

You might say something like It is possible that [intervention] is most effective [for a certain group/ or when administered in a certain way/ or for certain symptoms], which would explain the difference in results obtained by [ some authors] who [assessed the intervention in some way] and [other authors] who [did something else].

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Critical analysis of most effective approaches

Critical analysis of most effective approaches: Critical analysis of research on chosen intervention.

Marking Criteria: There is a good attempt at critical analysis, with a very clear attempt to connect ideas and explain to the reader why the research reviewed is important, interesting, and problematic. The author goes beyond surface level description to think more deeply about the quality and usefulness of the research they describe (8 marks)

Why is this approach more effective than others?

This can be interpreted as more effective than other psychological approaches or more effective than all other kinds of approaches

This should be a short paragraph, but you should try and think critically about the aspects of this treatment that make it effective.

Remember to continue to use references to support your statements.

Hint: these might be similar references to those you used earlier in paragraph three.

Hint: you might refer to other treatments that fail to account for particular aspects of the condition, or have flaws in their approach

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summary

Summary:

Summarise your paper

You might start by saying something like In sum, there is evidence to show that [psychological intervention] might be effective in alleviating symptoms of [illness condition].

Then explain briefly how the approach works, why this is effective and why this is more effective than others (i.e. 1-3 sentences summarising paragraphs 3-6).

Make sure the final sentence of this paragraph is a nice clear take home message that clearly captures the overall theme of your report

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Reference List:

Include APA formatted reference list in alphabetical order and with a hanging indent.

Marking Criteria: Formatting, intext referencing and reference list is on point and consistent with APA7 style (eg, font, spacing, indentation, intext citations and reference list free of errors with APA7 conventions throughout the report.

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