The need for behavioral health services has a growing need for behavioral health professionals, who understand the importance of evidence-based therapies, which are expected in today’s clinical and non-clinical environments. Behavioral health professionals versed in literature, analysis, and scholarly writing can write and speak with authority, which informs their ability to impact policy and deliver high quality services. Looking at this through the lens of a Christian worldview empowers behavioral health professionals to demonstrate ethical values of human dignity and respect for all participants in research. Evidence-based interventions have produced more tangible results and long-term benefits, including success rates in behavioral health programs.
We continue to use data and move toward only using evidence-based interventions whether in a clinical or non-clinical setting. Students must understand how to review and synthesize research in the topic area. A synthesized literature review can be used for an in-depth research project, a case application, or a program evaluation. Students will be able to review research to use in their practice. Students will be able to write a persuasive argument based on scholarly literature. Students will understand the main theories related to a topic, and how to identify what types of major research studies have been conducted in a topic area.
In this assignment, you must evaluate scholarly literature for bias, ethics, diversity, validity, reliability, limitations, and contributions to a research topic area. Then compare contrast, and synthesize research findings. You are required to assemble a literature review based on a theoretical framework and consider it using a Christian worldview.
- Topic Introduction
- Attend the online library skills and resources demonstration or review the recorded session to become familiar with strategies for identifying keywords as search criteria for literature reviews and to become familiar with the online library.
- You might also review resources and tutorials on the Library Resources page (opens in new window).
- Develop an introduction to the topic area that you are choosing in the field of psychology.
- Compose a problem statement, a research question, and a brief theoretical statement that includes the theorists and the contributions of their theories to the research area.
- The research question must be specific with each construct clearly defined and addresses a valid need area or gap in existing scholarly literature. SYNTHESIZED LITERATURE REVIEW 2
- Annotated Bibliography
- Evaluate at least 10 articles for the value they could bring to your literature review and write an annotation for each article.
- Consider that you will have to search through more than 10 articles for the purpose of this assignment.
- A few of the 10 articles may relate to theories pertaining to your research topic.
- Recency (most articles should be from the last 10 years; except seminal articles that are for established theories).
- Discuss the research methodology, key findings, validity, reliability, limitations, and bias in each annotation.
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Requirements
- Citation Requirements: Minimum 10 scholarly articles within the past 10 years except for seminal research
- Word Count: 250 words minimum per annotation (Introduction, Problem Statement, Research Question and Theoretical Statement)
- APA Formatting
- chosen topic : How moral values affect life satisfaction.