Research Review paper : Behavioral Parent Training

Research Review paper : Behavioral Parent Training: Chapter 9

• Find Spiegler articles that he used;
• never reference Speedler because he is secondary

• 6-8 pages maximum
• Min 8 references
• 4 sections/ sub headings
• No conclusion required

1. Introduction and description ( 1 page-1.5)
   • Audience is professor
   • Don’t go over basic concepts

• technique
  • give description of what it is
  • how it works, who it might be used for
  • and idea of how long the technique is supposed to take.

2. Strengthens ** Chapter 5

• If technique
  • Goal is to describe strengths, what they do well
    • Evidence of how and who they work and work well
  • Chapter 5 tells 5 criteria for strengths
  • How is been compared to another therapy?
    • If specific phobia, see if there is a study that compared bt with psychodynamic therapy. If it did better, that is a strength

3. Limitations Chapter 5***

• If technique, research study where those techniques don’t work well or are less successful
• Compare behavior therapy with a controlled group or with another type of therapy

4. Criticism on the literature

• Focusing what is wrong with the studies
  • Problems in the articles
• Authors will help you with this
  • They talk about what is wrong
• Can insert an opinion
• Find certain themes across a couple of articles
• DO NOT
  • Ex: Anorexia – do not pick a study that only focuses on female and then criticize them
• can add a positive

Mark

• Out of 100
• 20%
• Sections
  • 1 = 15 marks
  • 2= 25 marks
  • 3= 25 marks
  • 4= 20 marks
  • Writing = 15 marks
    • Proper sentences
    • Proper APA

DO NOT

• use case studies
• use books in sections 2-4
• use textbooks as references

Referencing

• Direct quotation: Authors, year and page number
  • Do not use so much
• Paraphrase: no need for page number
  • Name of authors and the year
• When citing an article for the first time
  • 5 authors or less, you have to list all of the authors
  • 3,4,5, other times would be adams et. al
• When citing 6 authors or more
  • Don’t have to cite them all the firs time
• There must be a citation for every thought that is not yours
  • ¾ of a page and at the end you put (Greenright, 2004) what youre saying is that it is only for the last paragraph
  • What needs to be done, you need to put it in the start
    • “ in their study…… and their results are as follows”
    • If in the middle you switch, you must cite those people
  • It is okay to have a lot of citing in the research review
  • Reference section at the back
    • Alphabetize