Category: Psychology

Where, or in what ways, can a researcher acquire information/data that can be used for a case study? In other words, what are some various sources for information that a researcher can use in a case study?

CASE STUDY ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
OVERVIEW

There are many methods available for conducting research, one of which is a case study. The purpose of this assignment is for you to learn how to conduct and complete a case study.

Proper current APA formatting throughout the document is a substantial part of the content of this assignment.

You will use what you learn in this assignment in a future course assignment.

INSTRUCTIONS

Answer the following four questions using current APA format throughout (including your title page, appropriate vocabulary and sentence structure, writing in third person, in-text citations, page numbers, levels of headings throughout the document, an introductory statement, a conclusion statement, and consistency between your in-text citations and references).

Use your course textbooks, including your Introduction to Research textbook and the Publication Manual, and at least two additional scholarly references.

This assignment must have a title page, plus two to four pages of appropriate content, and a reference page.

Give the answers to these questions in your own words and with your own explanation. Cite your sources in-text, and list your various sources as references on your references page.

This assignment is requiring level one headings based on each of the questions.

Create your own brief phrase for a properly formatted level one heading based on each question so as to be clear about which item you are answering. Your headings must not be simply copied/pasted from the questions.

An acceptable heading must clearly capture the essence of each question. Headings are typically brief statements. See various sections of your Publication Manual for details about the requirements in this assignment.

1. What is a case study?

2. What are advantages and disadvantages of this approach?

3. What are some reasons for using a case study approach?

4. Where, or in what ways, can a researcher acquire information/data that can be used for a case study? In other words, what are some various sources for information that a researcher can use in a case study? Note: For question four, these are two ways of stating the same question; these are not two separate questions.

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Safe Assign plagiarism tool.

What Z code or codes would you consider for Christina? How would including these systemic considerations help you understand Christina’s presenting symptoms and consider your treatment approach?

Read the following vignette, keeping in mind the importance of knowing symptoms and their duration and severity:

Christina is a 25-year-old Mexican-American woman who has been working as an elementary school teacher since she graduated from college three years ago. Although she does well at her job, she has been feeling low ever since she left college.

When she took this teaching position, she had to relocate to a city over four hours away from her family and the house she grew up in.

Even though she has made some new friends, Christina still feels disconnected and lonely. She is also concerned about her mother, who has been diagnosed with a serious health condition.

For the past month, Christina has felt much worse. She reports feeling very sad and tired most of the time and is having difficulty concentrating at work.

She says that she does not have enough energy to accomplish the things she would like to do. She admits to overeating to “unwind” after school, and is concerned she is sleeping too much on the weekends. She also has very low self-esteem, despite being well-liked at her school and receiving good performance evaluations.

Christina describes her life as “heading nowhere” and says that lately she has felt extremely hopeless. She wonders if she will ever feel as happy as she did when she was in college. She does not have a history of ever feeling worse than this, and is in good health.

Based on the information presented, address the following questions in your discussion post using headings to match content in each bullet point:

1. What diagnosis would you consider assigning to Christina? Describe the process you used for making this decision, including “Differential Diagnosis by the Trees” from the DSM-5 Handbook of Differential Diagnosis or Section II of your text, Desk Reference to the Diagnostic Criteria From DSM-5®.

2. What Z code or codes would you consider for Christina? How would including these systemic considerations help you understand Christina’s presenting symptoms and consider your treatment approach?

What was the research question, and why was it important to study? What information was missing from previous literature that this study set out to provide?

: Begin with
one short paragraph (3-4 sentences) explaining why you selected this article and how it is relevant to your final project.

My research question was: is MBTI test reliable?

4. Summary of the article. This summary should include:

a. What was the research question, and why was it important to study? What
information was missing from previous literature that this study set out to
provide?

b. What was the method? How did the researchers answer their question?

5. What the study found

a. Provide a summary of the results in your own words. In other words, do
not include statistics.

Imagine you’re explaining the results to a child with no statistics or research background; what’s the take-home message you would give them?

b. Is this what the researchers expected to find? Why or why not?

6. Your opinion of the study

a. Do you think the researchers did a good job of answering their research
question?

b. Do you have any concerns about the method? Consider any issues of
validity, reliability, sampling, ethics, etc.

c. Do you think the conclusions the researchers drew were justified given
their method and results?

For example, consider whether the researchers
overgeneralized their results beyond the population they tested.

d. What do you think the research contributes to the field in general?

Explain how investigative psychology plays a role in statement analysis (or how it could). How psychologists can be used to enhance interrogation techniques using statement analysis.

Investigative Psychology: Statement Analysis as tool for Deception Detection and Investigative Cycle

Description

Explain how investigative psychology plays a role in statement analysis (or how it could). How psychologists can be used to enhance interrogation techniques using statement analysis.

provided notes have for statement analysis labeled IP_Statement Analysis Notes. Handbook of Behavioral Criminology pdf contains a Forensic Linguistic article and the article by Tunkle regarding Criminal Profiling has a segment on Statement Analysis.

IP info comes from David Canter. He has the book Investigative Psychology: Offender Profiling and the Analysis of Criminal Action.

What are the different types of interviews that one may conduct? What are the advantages and disadvantages of these approaches?

Types of interviews

What are the different types of interviews that one may conduct? What are the advantages and disadvantages of these approaches?

text book below attached some info if needed

Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Research and Practice,7thed. (2016). Specter, Paul. Wiley Global Education.

Identify contemporary themes and topics you found in both the academic and professional literature as you prepared your Discussion Forum post earlier in the week and as you searched the scholarly literature for this assignment.

Topic of Interest and Research Focus
[WLOs: 1, 2, 3] [CLO: 1]

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, review the following Ashford Writing Center resources:

Entering the Conversation (Links to an external site.)

Integrating Research (Links to an external site.)

You may also find the Ashford Writing Center’s Narrowing a Topic & Developing a Research Question (Links to an external site.) web page to be useful this week.

Then, review the following resources:

Conference proceedings of professional associations or organizations associated with your field.

Articles in scholarly publications associated with your field.

Trade and professional journals or magazines relevant to practitioners in your field.

Governmental reports and websites.

• News articles related to your topic of interest.

In your paper, continue your examination of the scholarly and professional literature associated with your field of study and/or your specialization for themes and contemporary topics relevant to scholar-practitioners. Relevant topics are those that represent challenges or opportunities for scholar-practitioners in your field, or areas in which research could help improve service delivery to clients or provide greater understanding of key concepts to scholar-practitioners.

Your exploration of the literature may lead you to identify a wide range of themes and topics in your field, and you should mention the primary themes and topics briefly.

Then, for purposes of this assignment, narrow your focus to one broad theme or topic of interest to you, and tailor your paper around answering the questions below based on this narrowed focus.
For example,

If you are intrigued with the topic of adolescent learning (research topic), you might be interested in the influence of media on an adolescent’s development of critical-thinking skills (research focus).

• If you are interested in recidivism among juvenile offenders (research topic), you might be interested in focusing on the influence of educational achievement on recidivism rates (research focus).

If you are interested in the relationship between sports participation and future leadership success (research topic), you might want to focus on the concept of team leadership in collegiate basketball (research focus).
In your paper,

Identify contemporary themes and topics you found in both the academic and professional literature as you prepared your Discussion Forum post earlier in the week and as you searched the scholarly literature for this assignment.

Speculate about why these themes and topics engage the practitioner community.

Based on your research and your own personal experience in your field of study,

Identify some of the contemporary challenges that confront practitioners in your field.

Examine the kind of information that would improve service to clients or advance the understanding of practitioners in your field.

Assess what you, as a scholar-practitioner, would like to know about your field of study.

Justify a topic of interest and a specific research focus (a general area of interest, not a specific question) you would like to pursue for purposes of work in this class (and, potentially, as a topic for your doctoral research project).
The Topic of Interest and Research Focus paper

Must be at least 1,000 words in length (not including title, abstract and reference pages) and must be formatted

according to the Ashford Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.) (Access the resource How to Check a Word

Count in Microsoft Word (Links to an external site.) for help in determining total word count.)

Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper
Student’s name
Date
For further assistance with formatting your paper, including the title page, refer to the APA Template (Links to an external site.) from the Ashford Writing Center.

Must be double-spaced, formatted in Times New Roman 12-point type font, and aligned to the left margin.

Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.
Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph.

Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your pap

Identify the type of claim the research study makes. Explain your response. Your response should be about 25 to 50 words. Consider the following: Is the claim frequency based, association based, or causal?

None needed

Module Four Activity: Read a Research Paper
Study

1. Do Workplace Wellness Programs Reduce Medical Costs? Evidence From a Fortune 500 Company (Article was uploaded)
Analyze the Study

Respond to the following prompts to complete your Module Four Activity.
WRITING TEMPLATE

Summarize the research study’s purpose. Your response should be about 25 to 50 words.

Describe the relevance of the publication dates of the citations referenced for the research study. Your response should be about 25 to 50 words. Consider the following: Are some of those cited sources recent (relevant to date of publication)?

Identify the type of claim the research study makes. Explain your response. Your response should be about 25 to 50 words. Consider the following: Is the claim frequency based, association based, or causal?

Describe the research method used in the research study. Your response should be about 25 to 50 words. Consider the following: Is the research method qualitative, quantitative, or mixed?

Describe the research study’s data collection method. Your response should be about 50 to 100 words. Consider the following: Possibilities for data collection include surveys, observations, interviews, archive review, objective or biological measures, or some combination of those listed.

Describe the research study’s sample. Your response should be about 50 words. Include the following in your response:
Sample size
Sample characteristics

Describe one type of statistical analysis conducted in the research study. Your response should be about 25 words.

Describe one limitation from the research study. Your response should be about 25 to 50 words.

Describe how this research study could be used in personal and professional practice. Your response should be about 25 to 50 words. Consider the following:

How can the findings from this study be used by people in their work, in their personal lives, or to help others?

 

Add Your References

Citation is an important part of research and using the established patterns makes citations much easier to read. Cite the article you chose, and any other resources you referenced, in proper APA format below.

Your reference list will be automatically formatted using a hanging indent when you download your assignment.

WRITING TEMPLATE
List your references in APA Style below. Remember that they should be in alphabetical order by author last name.