The goal of the current assignment is to summarize and evaluate treatment strategies for one of the disorders of childhood or adolescence discussed in the course’s textbook readings and lecture presentations as well as to approximate the experience of delivering an oral presentation in front of an audience. For the current assignment, you will create and narrate a PowerPoint or Prezi (prezi.com) presentation that describes and evaluates different types of intervention strategies for one of the following disorders of childhood and adolescence:
Intellectual Developmental Disorder
Learning Disorders
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Conduct Disorder
Separation Anxiety Disorder
Specific Phobias
Social Phobia
Generalized Anxiety Disorder Panic Disorder
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
Persistent Depressive Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Reactive Attachment Disorder
Substance Abuse Disorders
Anorexia Nervosa
Bulimia Nervosa
While there are a variety of treatment methods used by mental health care providers, your presentation will focus on three of the following types of therapeutic approaches for the disorder that you have chosen:
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Behavior Therapy
Person-Centered (Humanistic) Therapy
Physiological/Pharmacotherapy Psychodynamic Therapy
Family Systems Therapy
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Group Therapy
In addition to the three treatment strategies that you choose from above, your presentation also will discuss one biblically based therapeutic technique or intervention that can be used to treat the disorder you have chosen.
INSTRUCTIONS
Presentation Content
Regarding the content of your presentation, you will utilize the following sources: 1) the textbook, 2) at least 1 scriptural citation, and 3) at least 3 additional peer-reviewed, primary, scholarly sources to address the following issues:
• Identify the disorder (from the list above) that will be the focus of your presentation and describe its current DSM diagnostic criteria.
• Choose three types of therapeutic approaches (from the list above), and:
o Identify 1 theoretical principle from each approach, describe it, and explain how it relates to the disorder that you have chosen.
o Identify 1 specific therapeutic technique from each approach that could be used to treat the disorder you have chosen (e.g., exposure therapy or social skills training are specific behavioral techniques that can be used to treat social phobia; EMDR or SSRI medications are specific physiological treatments that can be used to treat PTSD).
o Evaluate the efficacy of each therapeutic approach in treating the disorder that you have chosen. For each of the 3 approaches that you have selected, find at least 1 peer-reviewed, primary, clinical outcome research article to support your assessment of the approach.
