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LAURA HADDOCK: You've been developing your expertise in a particular intervention through exploration of published literature. And now, you're going to apply that information to a case study. To demonstrate that you understand how to go into the literature, identify current empirical evidence to support your decision-making as a counselor, you will develop a polished research paper that applies your findings to the case study.

A guide has been provided for you on the worksheet. You should transfer the headings into an APA formatted research paper. At the beginning of your paper, following your cover page, you want to write a brief introduction which provides an overview of the case study you chose, the client you're focusing on, and what mental health disorder you are going to approach treatment with for this client.

Then, you're going to also explain what intervention you're investigating. And you need to provide some information in your introduction that gives some background information and some scholarly support for your project.

So, for example, we've been speaking of the case study with the combat veteran who's presenting with PTSD symptoms. And if you chose to utilize exposure therapy as your intervention, then in your introduction, after you introduce your case study and your client, when you're describing the mental health disorder of PTSD, you would want to give a little bit of information– perhaps some data– about the occurrence of PTSD among combat veterans. And support that with a scholarly source.

When you identify the intervention that you're investigating, again, you want to give a brief description. And you want to support your description with scholarly research. This might come from a textbook. It might come from a journal article. But essentially, you want to make sure your introduction is rich and validates your choices.

Next, you're going to list your approved research question. Remember, that you received feedback in week one, which indicated whether your question was approved or needed to be revised. Make sure that you include the approved question.

Finally, describe the search strategy that you used to identify your articles. The most important thing to remember is that this project is an application of research to a case study. So when you develop your annotations, you want to demonstrate that you've learned how to analyze articles identifying the most important components and writing a summary of each one.

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You're going to write one or two paragraphs, which provides an overview of the article in your own words, and make sure to include the critical elements of the purpose of the research, the question that was being investigated, any ethical or cultural considerations, the population that was included, what sort of data was collected, how they analyzed the data, and what their findings were.

One key to remember is that you want to make sure you tell your reader what the answer to the research question was that those researchers were investigating. After you annotate each article will be where you apply those findings to your case study. You are essentially articulating evidence-based practice.

You're going to give an overall summary of the findings for all three articles you analyzed. Then, in your own words, describe the outcomes of what the studies found, and make your own judgment as to whether the intervention is a good fit for your client. Make sure you clearly answer your approved research question.

If the topics in your articles were related but don't match, you'll want to provide some rationale for how you drew your conclusions to answer the questions. Remember, the purpose of this paragraph is for you to describe how you would use this information for the work with the client that you chose in the case study. You want to give a specific example of clinical work that you would do based on the information that you found in the literature.

Finally, you'll finish your paper by writing one preliminary treatment goal for your client that shows how you might go about using the intervention that you've chosen in practice. And you'll wrap it up with a reference page that cites all the resources that you've utilized to support your project. And then, you'll upload and submit, and you will be done. If you have any questions or concerns, make sure to reach out to your faculty member who will be happy to provide you with any needed support.

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Applying Research to a Case Study

Angel Brown

Master of Clinical Mental Health in Counseling, Walden University

COURSE 6626: Research Methodology and Program Evaluation

July 4, 2022

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Case Conceptualization

Case Study Number Four: The Situation of Jared, an African American male veteran of the

United States Armed Forces who is 37 years old and is recommended for psychotherapy by his

girlfriend, Sheila. I have decided to use Case Study 4 for our conversation this week, which is

about a black man named Jared who is 37 years old. He displayed manifestations of trauma-

induced Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, including irritability, rage, nervousness, a failure of

authority and forbearance with his children, and yelling at his girlfriend.

Presenting Problem

When he talks about his experiences working as a doctor during his four years of active

duty in the military in Iraq, he has recollections that cause him to cry (Gramlich, 2018). Because he

is afraid of being classified, Jared does not feel comfortable going to counseling and does so with

reluctance. Since he came back from his tour of duty, he has been dealing with the aftermath of a

divorce as well as homelessness for the past twelve years.

Counseling Intervention

ICD-10 CODE F43.12 – persistent post-traumatic stress disorder – is the diagnosis for

Jared's problem with his mental wellbeing (Jones, 2022). The Psychodynamic Group Therapy

(PGT) Model combined with Cognitive Processing Therapy and virtual reality, which is a sort of

play therapy, is the approach that I have decided to take to tackle the psychological healthcare

condition that has been brought up in counseling.

Research question

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During their research on the efficacy of the therapeutic approach of psychodynamic group

therapy (PGT) for combat Veterans suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the

scientists determined that the PGT methodology integrates assistance, a neurodevelopment

framework for personal character, evaluation of cognitive structures of interpersonal relationships,

insistence on interpersonal different facets of combat trauma, resolution of interpersonal conflicts,

contrast adjustment of psychosocial stressors, and examination of psychological phenomena (Levi,

2019). Consequently, PGT enables patients to address their distressing situation and improve a

plausible narration for it, one that emphasizes the interpersonal components of combat trauma.

After presenting their data, the researcher came to the self-assured conclusion that PGT includes all

of the components that are thought to be crucial for managing chronic PTSD in veterans who

served in battle. In this sense, PGT has the potential to be acknowledged as a first-line treatment

for veterans of combat-related military service who suffer from PTSD.

My findings provide evidence to support the hypothesis that psychodynamic group therapy

is connected with cognitive enhancements in veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder

(Watkins, 2018). This hypothesis was created based on the outcomes of other research articles.

According to the information presented in this article, the practices of PGT integrate elements such

as assistance, a neurodevelopment framework for personal character, a focus on the individual and

social different facets of combat trauma, the simplification of stressors, the evaluation of

physiological cause and influence and the influence of incapacitated specific and team mechanisms

on the participant. As a result of this, the intervention that I provide for my patient will be

predicated on the information presented in the article; however, I will also include the expertise

that I have received through reading other research publications.

References

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Gramlich, M. A., & Neer, S. M. (2018). Firefighter-paramedic with posttraumatic stress disorder,

horrific images, and depression: A clinical case study. Clinical case studies, 17(3), 150-

165.

Jones, C., Smith-MacDonald, L., Van Veelen, N., VanderLaan, A., Kaneva, Z., Dunleavy, R. S., …

& Bremault-Phillips, S. (2022). Therapist and operator experiences utilizing multi-modal

motion-assisted Memory Desensitization and Reconsolidation (3MDR) for treatment of

combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder amongst military and veteran populations.

European journal of psychotraumatology, 13(1), 2062996.

Lazarov, A., Suarez-Jimenez, B., Levi, O., Coppersmith, D. D., Lubin, G., Pine, D. S., … & Neria,

Y. (2020). Symptom structure of PTSD and co-morbid depressive symptoms–network

analysis of combat veteran patients. Psychological Medicine, 50(13), 2154-2170.

Levi, O., Lazarov, A., Bar-Haim, Y., Lubin, G., & Wald, I. (2019). Predictors of consent to

treatment and premature termination of treatment in a sample of veterans with military-

related PTSD. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 207(4), 300-306.

Watkins, L. E., Sprang, K. R., & Rothbaum, B. O. (2018). Treating PTSD: A Review of Evidence-

Based Psychotherapy Interventions. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, N.PAG.