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Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Adolescents

Literature Review (about 2 or 2 and ½ pages)

 

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Adolescents

– Use 5 studies to conduct the review of literature portion. The focus is on Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with adolescents (or adolescents in foster care if you find that more suitable)

o The studies need to be dated within 2010 to 2019 and to be from a peer-reviewed journal.

o Listed below are 2 studies, find the other 3 to use.

 Koob, J. J. & Love, S. M. (2010).

The implementation of solution-focused therapy to increase foster care placement stability. Children and Youth Services Review, 32, 1346-1350.

 Cepukiene, V. & Pakrosnis, R. (2011).

The outcome of solution-focused brief therapy among foster care adolescents:

The changes of behavior and perceived somatic and cognitive difficulties. Children and Youth Services Review, 33, 791-797.

– For each study include:

o the number of participants, demographics (race/ethnicity, gender, age), and methodology

o Summarize the study

o Does the conclusion follow the results? Analysis (about 1 and ½ pages)

– Give an analysis of the literature above.

– Which populations have benefited from SFBT? Which populations has not?

o Think about ethnicities, genders, geographical locations, ages, settings, problems, economic status, etc.

– What are the gaps? Or What is still missing in the literature?

– What does the literature say about the effectiveness of the modality? Notes:

– Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) appear to be used with other forms of therapy like CBT (Koob & Love, 2000).

– Is most beneficial to address problems that are not deep rooted like mental illnesses, problems that cause personality changes, etc.

Koob and Love (2000) applied SFBT before the adolescent was faced with any poor developmental outcomes.

Conclusion (about ½ a page to 1 page)

– Using the key findings from the literature, conclude how you might reformulate the intervention. In other words, how would you “tweak” the intervention. (nothing major) References Wallace, J. G. & Eisengart, S. (2000).

Solution-focused brief therapy:

A review of the outcome research. Family Process, 39(4), 477-498, http://www.solutions-centre.org/pdf/SFBT%20outcomes%201.pdf, Koob, J. J. & Love, S. M. (2010).

The implementation of solution-focused therapy to increase foster care placement stability.

Children and Youth Services Review, 32, 1346-1350. Cepukiene, V. & Pakrosnis, R. (2011). The outcome of solution-focused brief therapy among foster care adolescents:

The changes of behavior and perceived somatic and cognitive difficulties. Children and Youth Services Review, 33, 791-797. General Notes:

– Social work lens/perspective

– Check/edit your grammar before submitting your draft to me

– Fill all 5 pages to the bottom – APA citations

– Data and quotes should be used, appropriate, to support arguments

Conceptions of the self in Western and Eastern psychology

The purpose of this assignment is to provide an opportunity to read and think critically about the ideas of early personality theorists (Freud, Jung, et al.) and how their theoretical frameworks relate to those of an alternate cultural framework (i.e., Eastern/Buddhist). This assignment provides students the opportunity to hone their writing skills and demonstrate proficiency in APA formatting and style. In general, the structure of an article review is quite flexible and will vary according to the type of article, (e.g., scientific experiment, book review, editorial, or theoretical article, etc). The assigned article is conceptual (idea based), and not a scientific study. Therefore, you won’t find the typical introduction, method, results, and discussion sections found in an empirical journal. READ CAREFULLY **Your task is to describe the author’s thesis, explaining important concepts in a concise manner, and summarizing the author’s most important conclusions along the way. This will be the summary, after which, you’ll add your critical analysis. Although a critique is personal, your statements should echo a reasonable amount of objectivity. In other words, where you delve into statements of opinion, it will help your case if you can also present a logical basis for your statements. Please avoid making statements such as “I really enjoyed this article.” APA style is much more than just APA formatting. In fact, students often focus tremendous efforts on formatting their papers, while completely ignoring style. Spend some time reading chapters 3 and 4 of the APA Publication Manual, you’ll be glad you did. Wink For this assignment, I have chosen a reasonably short, (although not simplistic) article titled “Conceptions of the self in Western and Eastern psychology” by, Yozan Dirk Mosig, published in Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology Here’s the citation. Mosig, Y. D. (2006). Conceptions of the self in Western and Eastern psychology. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 26(1–2), 39–50. https://doi-org.ezproxy.uwa.edu/10.1037/h0091266 I am inserting a link to the article in the library’s database. I believe you will need to be logged into the library’s webpage for the link to work. It’s seems to work for some but not for others. If you have difficulty with the link, please make an attempt to look up the article in the PsycARTICLES database in the UWA library web page, you’ll find it quickly along with the .pdf file to access the full text.. Because of the depth of content in this article, the main body of your paper should be at least four pages for an adequate summary and analysis. I hope you find it as interesting as I did. Please do not focus too much on restating the “western perspective.” The author spends most of his time describing the alternative “Eastern” view, and this should be reflected in your paper, as well. http://ezproxy.uwa.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pdh&AN=2007-10982-003&site=ehost-live&scope=site

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Social Psychology: Smoking and cognitive dissonance

The word limit is 1000 words with no leeway – excluding references. Everything that you would need to help you write this is included in the uploaded files. Please read through EVERYTHING i had uploaded in order to complete this work to the best of your ability. My aim is to receive a 1st, 70% and above for this work

You will read the following seven (7) articles: Churchill. S.D., & Mruk, C.J. (2014). Practicing what we preach in humanistic and positive psychology. American Psychologist 69, 90-92, doi:10.1037/a0034868. Friedman, H. (2014). Are humanistic and positive psychology really incommensurate? American Psychologist 69, 89-90, doi:10.1037/a0034865. Morley. J. A phenomenologist’s response to Alan Waterman. (2014). American Psychologist 69, 88-89, doi:10.1037/a0034866. Schneider, K.J. (2014). Humanistic and positive psychology need each other, and to advance, our field needs both. American Psychologist, 69, 92. dio:10:1037/a0034852. Serlin, I.A. (2014). A therapist’s response to Alan Waterman. American Psychologist, 69, 89. dio:10:1037/a0034987. Waterman, A.S. (2013). The humanistic psychology—positive psychology divide: contrasts in philosophical foundations. American Psychologist, 68(3), 124-133. doi:10.1037/a0032168. Waterman, A.S. (2014). Further reflections on the humanistic psychology-positive psychology divide. American Psychologist, 69, 92-94. doi:10:1037/a0034966 Write a thought-essay answering this question: What are the three most important premises of positive psychology and how do they relate to humanist psychology?