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.
Choose any two of the treatment modalities that you learned in this week. 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?
APA formating and referneces please.
Answer preview
A teenage mood disorder is a frequent stressful episode experienced by most people in their adolescent stage. However, the mood disorder can progress into more serious mental problems such as depression. Therefore, many treatment options are suggested to help teenagers cope with depressive episodes and mood swings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a treatment which has strong empirical support for its efficacy in enabling adolescents to cope with mood changes (Kuyken, Watkins and Beck, 2015). Family therapy is an alternative treatment…
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