Week 15 Assignment 1: Psychotherapy Evidence-Based Practice Movie Paper

Instructions

You will write a paper for completion in Week 15 as your final assignment for the course. (You select a movie in Week 4 Activity 2: Individual Poster Presentation Topic Choice to write your paper on.) Pick a movie that portrays a character or characters experiencing a psychological disorder/mental illness, such as one from the following list. Alternatively, pick a movie that portrays an example of a certain type of therapy. You may choose your own, but it must be approved by your instructor before you submit the assignment.

1. Leaving Las Vegas
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
4. Boys Don’t Cry
5. Benny and Joon
6. Girl Interrupted
7. Seven
8. Mad Love
9. Rain Man
10. Shine
11. A Beautiful Mind
12. Madness of King George
13. Fight Club
14. The Fisher King
15. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
16. Twelve Monkeys
17. Sybil
18. The Three Faces of Eve
19. Eating
20. The Silence of the Lambs
21. Pollock
22. Ordinary People
23. Analyze This/Analyze That
24. Final Analysis
25. Identity
26. The Great Gatsby

Watch the movie and then please include the following sections titles in your paper:

1. Analysis of Movie:
   • Write a very brief summary of the movie. Give clear evidence that you watched it.
2. Signs/Symptoms:
   • Write a description of how the psychological disorder and/or the therapy was portrayed.
3. Assessment and DSM-5 Diagnosis:
   • Describe how you would assess the disorder (what assessment tools), and discuss the criteria for diagnosis based on what diagnosis you would choose from the DSM-5 to assign to the client in the movie.
4. Evidence-Based Practice Plan of Care:
   • Research and include evidence-based practice related to the disorder/therapy portrayed. Include a minimum of one peer-reviewed article. What therapy modality would you choose as the plan of care for the client?
5. Summary of Movie Analysis in Correlation to DSM-5 Criteria:
   • Write a critical analysis of how accurate or inaccurate you found the portrayal of the disorder/therapy. Show evidence of your knowledge of the psychological disorder/mental illness or the type of therapy (that is, include information from class or the textbook).

Guidelines

Your total paper should be a minimum of four pages in length, typed, and double-spaced. Use APA format