For part one of this week’s assignment, prepare concrete comprehensive guidelines for yourself on how you will:
1. ASK: Describe how you will decide on the type of question you are researching. Be specific in your decision-making process and what criteria you will use. For example, will you use one of the classifications of questions discussed in your text in the Defining the Purpose of the Search section to
formulate your questions?
2. ACQUIRE: Describe how you will find research articles to answer your question.
3. APPRAISE: Describe how you will determine the quality of theresearch, to whom the findings apply and in what contextsthey are appropriate. Consider all that we have covered to date on evaluating research studies and identify what checklists or rubrics you’ll use to appraise the studies you
find (e.g., Appendix II in the text, any of the readings from Week 7).
4. APPLY: Describe how you will integrate the research findings with your experience to date and your hypothetical client population and clinical context. In other words, envision who you might work with and where you might work with them, and then describe how you will decide on the most effective
way to use research findings in your therapy with such clients. What kinds of information do you anticipate pulling from research articles to guide your work with such clients?
5. ANALYZE AND ADJUST: Describe what methods you will use to assess the effectiveness of the interventions you might pull from the studies you found. Considering that the research-based interventions you found may not always be effective, explain what you would do in such situations.
