Case Study: Treatment Recommendations
Imagine yourself to be a counselor working with teenagers. You have been asked to share your thoughts on the treatments that can be recommended for teenagers for handling mood disorders.
Written Assignment:You are to imagine you are a counselor who works with teens. As such, you have been asked to provide guidance for treating teens with mood disorders. There are specific questions listed in the assignment description that will need to be addressed.
Be sure that you include appropriate scholarly research to inform and support all assertions made in the paper.
Choose any two of the treatment modalities that you learned in this week. IE: biological treatment, psychosocial, evidence-based. Write a 2- to 3-page essay comparing and contrasting the treatment modalities that you have chosen.
In your essay, include answers to the following questions:
• What are the benefits of each treatment?
• What are the risks of each treatment?
• Which treatment has the strongest research base? Why?
• Which treatment do you recommend for teenagers? Why?
Apply APA standards to the citation of sources, including the use of in-text citations and full references.
Citations for articles used:
Dallaspezia, S., & Benedetti, F. (2011). Chronobiological therapy for mood disorders. Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, 11(7), 961-970. doi:10.1586/ern.11.61
Feisthamel, K. P., & Price, C. (2012). Understanding bipolar disorder: Psychosocial treatment methods for the psychotherapist. Annals of Psychotherapy and Integrative Health, 15(2), 29
Grunze, H., Vieta, E., Goodwin, G. M., Bowden, C., Licht, R. W., Möller, H.. . WFSBP Task Force on Treatment Guidelines for Bipolar Disorders. (2013). The world federation of societies of biological psychiatry (WFSBP) guidelines for the biological treatment of bipolar disorders: Update 2012 on the long-term treatment of bipolar disorder. The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 14(3), 154-219. doi:10.3109/15622975.2013.770551
Miziou, S., Tsitsipa, E., Moysidou, S., Karavelas, V., Dimelis, D., Polyzoidou, V., &Fountoulakis, K. N. (2015). Psychosocial treatment and interventions for bipolar disorder: A systematic review. Annals of General Psychiatry, 14, 19.
Reinares, M., Sánchez-Moreno, J., &Fountoulakis, K. N. (2014;2013;). Psychosocial interventions in bipolar disorder: What, for whom, and when. Journal of Affective Disorders, 156, 46. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2013.12.017