Essay Instructions: This essay needs to be a theoretical analysis of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: how it affects those stricken in their personal and public lives, the etiology of the disorder, and possible treatments.
Some specific points from the instructions:
1. Critically assess existing theories, identifying flaws or arguing for the superiority of one theory over another. This is often done through examining a theory’s internal consistency and evaluating the level of empirical support for the theory (i.e. studies/experiments). This type of theoretical analysis is what is expected from student in this class.
2. The thesis statement will not necessarily argue for a position or an opinion; rather it will argue for a particular perspective on the material.
The thesis statement is very important.
The paper must have 13 references from at least 5 different peer reviewed journals.(no commercial magazines)
I have 6 of those articles picked out. They may be accessed through the PubMed website www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
If you can't find these articles, I can email them in pdf format
Article Information:
1. Substance Use Disorders in an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Clinical Sample (Mancebo, Grant, Pinto, Eisen, and Rasmussen) published in Journal of Anxiety Disorders 2009 23(4)
2. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Versus Body Dysmorphic Disorder: A Comparison Study of Two Possibly Related Disorders (Phillips, Pinto, Menard, Eisen, Mancebo) published in Depress Anxiety, 2007 24(6)
3. Early Childhood OCD: Preliminary Findings From a Family Baseed Conitive Behavioral Approach (Freeman, Garcia, Coyne, Ale, Przeworksi, Himle, Compton, Leonard) published in Journal of American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2008 47(5)
4.Quality of LIfe and Functional Impairment in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A comparison of patients with and without comorbidity, patients in remission, and healthy controls (Huppert, Simpson, Nissenson, Liebowitz, Foa) puslished in Depress Anxiety 2009 26(1)
5.Juvenile-Onset OCD: Clinical FEatures in Children, Adolescents, and Adults (Mancebo, Garcia, Pinto, Freeman, Przeworksi, Stout, Kane, Eisen, Rasmussen) puslished in Acta Psychiatrica Scandanvica 2008 118(2)
6.The economic and social burden of compulsive hoarding (Tolin, Frost, Steketee, Gray, Fitch) published in Psychiatry Research , 2008 160(2)
If you can't find these articles, I can email them in pdf format
There are faxes for this order.
