Assignment: Clinical Practice Literature

NUR6640 Week 3 Assignment 1: Applying Current Literature to Clinical Practice

Literature in psychotherapy differs from other areas of clinical practice. Generally, there are no clinical trials in psychotherapy because it is often neither appropriate nor ethical to have controls in psychotherapy research. This sometimes makes it more difficult to translate research findings into practice. In your role, however, you must be able to synthesize current literature and apply it to your own clients. For this Assignment, you begin practicing this skill by examining current literature on psychodynamic therapy and considering how it might translate into your own clinical practice.

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Learning Objectives

Students will:

Evaluate the application of current literature to clinical practice

To prepare:

Review this week’s Learning Resources and reflect on the insights they provide.

Select one of the psychodynamic therapy articles from the Learning Resources to evaluate for this Assignment.

Note: In nursing practice, it is not uncommon to review current literature and share findings with your colleagues. Approach this Assignment as though you were presenting the information to your colleagues.

The Assignment

In a 5- to 10-slide PowerPoint presentation, address the following:

Provide an overview of the article you selected.

What population is under consideration?

What was the specific intervention that was used? Is this a new intervention or one that was already used?

What were the author’s claims?

Explain the findings/outcomes of the study in the article. Include whether this will translate into practice with your own clients. If so, how? If not, why?

Explain whether the limitations of the study might impact your ability to use the findings/outcomes presented in the article. Support your position with evidence-based literature.

Note: The presentation should be 5–10 slides, not including the title and reference slides. Include presenter notes (no more than ½ page per slide) and use tables and/or diagrams where appropriate. Be sure to support your work with specific citations from the article you selected. Support your approach with evidence-based literature.

By Day 7

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Grading Criteria. Assignment: Clinical Practice Literature

Psychoanalytic Theory and Attending to Diversity Example

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Psychoanalytical
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Providers must address their own internal bias regarding issues when caring for
clients.
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Multi Cultural
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Psychoanalysts hypothesize that immigrants suffer with coping to find their identity.
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Community
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Sexual Orientation/Identity, Spirituality, and Gender Identification are key to forming
a therapeutic relationship.

Psychoanalytic perspective, the practitioner/consultant helps to foster emotional insight,
and the uncovering of conscious and unconscious feelings and thoughts, which is
central to identifying conflict and promoting change Tummala Narra , P., 2007).
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Psychoanalytic theory emphasizes the therapist’s ability to bear witness to the
client’s past and present life experiences and to hold the client’s perspective,
even when it may sharply contrast with that of the therapist ( Tummala Narra ,
P., 2007).
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Transference and Countertransference are identified.
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Clients are able to relive experiences in a safe environment where both patient and client have set
boundaries and understand their own

Community Intervention
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Community Based Psychoanalytic Concepts have
increasingly been applied over the last decade.
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Rodney King Riots
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Borg Coins Phrase “Community Character.”
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Reflects unconscious internalization of patterns of behavior and
unspoken rules that help the community cope with anxiety.
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Twemlow and Parens
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Describe the overlap of Psychoanalysis and Community
Psychology.

Case Example: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy With
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30 year old Hindu, Indian American woman, born and raised in the
northeastern part of the United States.
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First Generation Immigrant from India
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Describes Child Home Life as ”Hectic.”
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Hindu primary language spoken at home.
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She characterizes her school life as having considerable anxiety.
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Bullying and teasing at school for brown skin, braded hair, accent, and dot on
forehead.
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Therapy focused on non judgement and acceptance of Reena’s choices and
lifestyle.
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Therapist and Client focused on Similarities and Differences.
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Transference/Countertransference.

Case Example: Community Intervention
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After school Psycho Educational Group Meetings in After School
Program.
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Majority of Staff and Students are African American.
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Violence was not discussed at Home.
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Purpose of Groups was to discuss the trauma.
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Racial Differences made Providers Question Their Competence, Initially.
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Realistic Goals were set by school administrators and Therapists.

References
Ainslie, R. C. (2009). Social class and its reproduction in immigrants’ construction of self. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Socie
ty Special Issue: Immigration, 14, 213
224.
Tummala Narra, P. (2013). Psychoan .
Akhtar, S. (2011). Immigration and acculturation: Mourning, adaptation, and the next generation. Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson.
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applications in a diverse society. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 30(3), 471 487. https://doi.org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.1037/a0 031375
Borg, M. B. (2004). Venturing beyond the consulting room: Psychoanalysis in community crisis intervention. Contemporary Psych
oan alysis, 40, 147 174.
Eng
, D., & Han, S. (2000). A dialogue on racial melancholia. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 10, 667 700. doi:10.1080/10481881009348576
Foster, R. P. (2003). Considering a multicultural perspective for psychoanalysis. In A. Roland, B.
Ulanov , & C. Barbre (Eds.), Creative dissent: Psychoanalysis in
evolution (pp. 173
185). Westport, CT: Praeger.
Mitchell, S. A. (1988). Relational concepts in psychoanalysis: An integration. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Stolorow
, R. D. (1988). Transference and the therapeutic process. Psychoanalytic Review, 75, 245 254.
Tummala
Narra , P. (2007). Skin color and the therapeutic relationship. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 24, 255 270. doi:10.1037/0736 9735.24.2.255 Assignment: Clinical Practice Literature