771958 Mental Health Assignment
771958 Mental Health In Practice Assignment – UK
Assignment Title : Literature review
Weight : 50%
Assignment type and description : A systematic literature review summarising the current peer-reviewed evidence around a specific, agreed topic of relevance to the service experience.
Word limit and guidance : 2500 References and appendices do not count towards word count. Tables and lists within the document do count. Please note that you must declare your word count for the assessment. If your word count exceeds the word limit by an amount greater than 10% markers will stop reading once this point has been reached
771958 Mental Health Assignment
Learning outcomes assessed : LO2: Construct and implement a plan for in-depth, systematic literature searching relevant to a specific area of practice, including the development of recommendations for practice based on the evidence discovered.
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Assignment guidance : You are required to write a 2,500 word literature review on a topic relevant to your service experience. The general area and the specific question should arise from a discussion with the service experience supervisor and should ideally be a question which is genuinely useful to the service to have answered. A systematic review is in effect a scientific report, much like those you will have written before. It has a research question, a method, some results etc. Write your report in the same concise, structured way that you would a research report and not as an essay with no strict structure of headings and sections.
771958 Mental Health Assignment
The final report should be comprised of the following elements:
- Introduction to topic and justification. Your topic should be linked to the service and will most likely be focussing on a particular research question that has arisen within it. It would be appropriate to consult with your service to select an area of interest and value to the agency, and you should discuss in this section how the topic arose from the service’s priorities.
- Precise specification of research question. This should be broad enough so that sufficient articles are reviewed (no fewer than 10) but not so broad that a huge and unmanageable body of literature is reviewed (no more than 20). You may wish to specify the context in terms of the topic (e.g. depression broadly, or depression in men with coronary heart disease); in terms of the intervention or setting (e.g. voluntary sector settings only, or out-patient interventions only); or in terms of the breadth of the search (e.g. UK only versus any written in English, post-2000 only versus all dates).
- Method. Outline your search strategies (e.g. what search engines or databases did you use and what search terms were employed to produce your final article list). List or use a figure to demonstrate how you filtered out irrelevant hits from your initial search to arrive at your final articles. Your method should enable another researcher to come up with the same articles you found just by reading your description of what you did.
- Summary of empirical papers reviewed. This should be very brief, one page if you can manage it, and may be best done in table form. Give the citation you will be using for each paper – e.g. ‘Smith et al. (2012)’ – and summarise in one line per paper the method (e.g. ‘RCT’ or ‘In-depth interviews’), participants (number and= characteristics – e.g. ‘community smoking cessation attenders’) and findings (e.g.‘Depression and time unemployed highly correlated’).
- Report results by topic and theme. Do not simply list each article and paraphrase them one after another. Instead choose topics and themes which run through several articles and discuss how these themes are addressed, even (or especially!) if findings are contradictory or ambiguous. Do not use direct quotes from articles – use brief paraphrase instead.
- Compare and evaluate studies. If certain studies stand out as particularly strong (e.g. exceptional design, few weaknesses) this should be noted – equally if some, most, or all studies share a common weakness this should be described.
- A final section, written for a clinical/practice readership (rather than an academic readership), should make specific recommendations to the service, arising out of the findings already described in sections 4-7. This could be in the form of a bullet point list, table or other form if this is easier to display, and could include recommendations for practice, organisation, processes, data management or further research as appropriate.
- References, integrated both for empirical articles reviewed and for theoretical and other works cited elsewhere in the literature review.
771958 Mental Health Assignment
Assessment criteria and process
The assignment will be assessed against the criteria for coursework detailed in the Assessment Guide supplied below, and marked using the department’s categorical marking scheme.
Marking will be checked and validated by a second marker following procedures approved by the University and described in the university’s quality handbook.
Any penalties for late submission, exceeding the word limit, or unfair means will be applied
after marking is complete.
771958 Mental Health Assignment
Presentation and referencing
Use headings and subheadings freely, following the structure of the elements 1-8 outlined above or any other logical way of structuring your work.
- Correct and consistent grammar, punctuation and spelling should be used throughout you assignment.
- You should use the APA 7 th edition citation and referencing system. See the Assessment Guide for further details.
- The assignment should be written in the third person past tense.