It may be helpful to review a research outline and completed thesis or dissertation related to the assignment. Go to ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
Begin with a relevant Search and review titles in your result list to get ideas for treatment therapies.

psychology AND therapy AND treatment AND study

Then, choose a title from your list to review the outline and content of the thesis or dissertation. The "Preview - PDF" provides the first 25 pages. "Full text - PDF" are also available

The Impact of Therapeutic Mindfulness on Treatment Process and Treatment Outcome (See page iii for the outline below.)

Find a Therapeutic Treatment - Select a psychology database and try a keyword search for a specific treatment.

Browse treatments in the subjects or thesaurus. After you have identified and chosen a treatment from a subject list, mark the checkbox and click "Add" to move the term into the search box.

Below are two subject searches and a list of "treatments" in PsychINFO.

The above list of "treatments" is in PsycInfo.

Search and find articles to answer the assignment questions

Using the Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) as a research example, several searches are provided below as starting points for gathering information to answer questions for "opens new windowProposal Assignment 1: Annotated Bibliography."

✓ Edit the searches below according to your needs.
✓ Access the search and use "Choose Databases" to select another psychology database to run the same search.
✓ To search primary research, use key terms such as study, "purpose of the study," etc.
✓ Set required research limits, such as date, peer reviewed, age groups, and methodology-quantitative study or methodology-qualitative study. (See image below)

Try these examples in APA PsycInfo:
Recall that DE in a search expression identifies a subject term in most databases.

• DE "Cognitive Behavior Therapy" AND "purpose of the study"
• DE "Cognitive Behavior Therapy" AND ( characteristics or approach )
• DE "Cognitive Behavior Therapy" AND ( clients and effective* )
• "cognitive behavior therapy" AND treatment AND study AND effectiveness
• ("cognitive behavior therapy" or CBT ) AND therapeutic treatment AND ( characteristics and clients )
• ("cognitive behavior therapy" or CBT) AND therapeutic intervention AND (success or outcome)
• DE "CLIENTS" AND DE "COGNITIVE therapy"

In the reference databases below, use the visual tools to get related, narrower and broader concepts. Results represent entries from all the reference books in the database.

Try the Mind Map. Continue to click the nodes to rearrange the mind map to your desired topic.

Try a Topic Finder search. Click Advanced at the top of the page, then choose the Topic Finder tab. Key in a broad topic to view related, broader and narrower topics.