Chapter 15 & 16 Writing Assignment: Mental Health Resources
There is a lot of pseudoscience in mental health; people stating they have a cure for something but are really just trying to take advantage of people or their families in their time of need. There are also people who really believe they have a cure or treatment…but they are mistaken, their belief is based on little to no actual evidence. This assignment is designed to help you become an educated consumer with respect to mental health resources.
Part 1: Search for an informative website on depression (that is not provided in the text or anywhere in this lesson). Write a summary of the site that includes a thoughtful critique. Specifically, you should include the site address (i.e., you must provide the URL so I can look at the site), a brief description of the information available, and your thoughtful critique of the value of the information (including what you found valuable, user friendliness, and usefulness, etc.).
Part 2: After you have identified the website and thoroughly looked at it please go to the American Psychological Association’s (APA) website on evidence-based practice: (Retrieved from: https://www.apa.org/practice/resources/evidence/. Also, watch this video: Michael Shermer Baloney Detection Kit. (Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNSHZG9blQQ&feature=youtu.be)
Part 3: Considering the information you learned from Part 2 of the assignment, add a final paragraph where you review whether the website you found is credible and describe how you evaluated the credibility of the website based on the information on the APA web site and in the Baloney Detection Kit video.
Your paper should be a Word document (.doc or .docx), at least 200-250 words, double-spaced, 1-inch margins, with 12-point Times New Roman font. All of the information you include should be paraphrased with NO direct quotes. You must include appropriate in-text citations in APA style and then include an APA-style Reference(s) list on a separate page at the end (citations and references do not count toward the word count). Make sure your writing is clear and well-organized.The
textbook is:
Psychology 2e. It is an OER (free) textbook. The link can be found here: https://openstax.org/books/psychology-2e/pages/preface
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