Overview The purpose of this assignment is to select an intervention that was designed to address a social problem and find the empirical sources supporting the use of the intervention in the scientific literature, governmental reporting, and from organizational websites. This assignment is also designed to teach you how to create in-text citations and reference pages, and properly use direct quotes that follow the APA 7th edition format. Directions Step 1: Identify a social problem in which you are interested (e.g., suicide, domestic violence, depression, anxiety, PTSD, substance misuse/addiction, racial inequality, homelessness, sexual violence, etc.) Step 2: Choose one specific and named intervention that has been developed to address one specific and named social problem. Interventions can include a variety of approaches to help people with social problems including but not limited to crisis counseling, cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, acceptance and commitment therapy, exposure therapy, drug/alcohol education on college campuses, suicide prevention programs, domestic violence prevention programs, anger management, homelessness programs, sexual violence prevention programs, and so on. Please select a specific intervention and ensure that you choose an intervention that has a name, has been empirically tested in multiple scientific studies, and was published in at least 2 peer-reviewed journal articles. You must also be able to find information on the intervention from a reputable organizational website and in an objective government (federal or state) report. Step 3: Find references on the intervention you chose above and read the articles in their entirety. Using the university library database system (https://library.osu.edu/), google scholar (www.scholar.google.com), and/or pubmed (www.pubmed.gov), find the following (you will need to find four sources in total): a. Two peer-reviewed articles on the intervention that has been developed to address your social problem. These articles must be intervention studies that tested the efficacy or effectiveness of the intervention. You must NOT include any other type of journal articles. Specifically, you must not include systematic review articles, 2 narrative review articles, meta-analysis articles, theoretical articles, correlational or cross-sectional studies, survey studies without an experimental design, or any other type of articles. Typically, such articles (reviews, meta-analyses, etc.) are clearly labeled as such and are identifiable as not acceptable in their title or abstract. To be acceptable, your paper must present new data from only one study that tested whether the intervention you chose was effective in addressing the social problem. You must be able to answer that question for you to include the paper in your assignment. If you have any question about whether your article is appropriate for the assignment, please refer to your course modules or readings (or ask your instructor). Feedback will also be provided during the first phase of this assignment, and you will have one opportunity to find/select new articles if your articles do not meet the standards necessary for the assignment. b. One website from an organization that provides the intervention you have selected that is used to address the social problem you have chosen. c. One report from a government agency’s website (e.g., CDC, SAMHSA, etc.) that reports on the intervention you have selected that is used to treat the social problem you have chosen. Step 4: In-text Citations You will create a two-page word document. On the first page complete the following tasks: • For each of the two peer-reviewed journal articles o Write one to two sentences that paraphrases the findings and includes an intext citation at the end of the sentence based on APA 7th edition. This is to be in your own words and not copied/pasted or written verbatim using the language from the article. Summarize the main finding about the intervention in addressing the social problem you chose to focus on. Avoid plagiarizing or using patchwriting as these are unacceptable ways to summarize material from journal articles. o See links for help with figuring out how to avoid this common pitfall when summarizing/paraphrasing scientific journal articles: https://libguides.stchas.edu/c.php?g=591784&p=4122786 https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammarguidelines/citations/paraphrasing o Write one sentence in which you quote the author(s) and include the in-text citation with the page number based on APA 7th edition. You will have to make some adjustments to the in-text citation since it has a quote with a page number. This is your opportunity to copy/paste or write verbatim a quote from the article that you think helps make your summary statement more meaningful. Make sure to put quotes around the statement and cite the quote using APA 7th edition style guidelines! 3 • For the website and the report, write one sentence for each that describes what the website and the report are about and includes an in-text citation. • Check your in-text citations to make sure they follow APA 7th edition. Step 5: Reference Page: On the second page of the document: • Create a reference page based on APA 7th edition. You must include a total of four sources in your reference page. • Check your references to make sure they follow APA 7th edition. Step 6: Final Check: Check again to make sure the in-text citations, quotes, and reference page follow the APA 7th edition format. o Use the PurdueOWL to determine what you need to do to conform to APA style if you have questions. Assignment Example Please make sure you follow the exact format below. You don’t need to write paragraphs, just the sentences. You are not allowed to use the same articles, website, and/or report from this example. Article 1: Adolescents often take risks through social media challenges and social media may be a mechanism to intervene to reduce risky behaviors (Bosmia & Leon, 2015). Bosmia and Leon (2015) write that “the cinnamon challenge has existed for nearly a decade” (p. 41) and without interventions adolescents may continue to engage in high-risk behaviors. Article 2: Social media may provide an opportunity to intervene with heaving drinking among college students (Bonar et al., 2020). Social media has been used as a place to deliver interventions, however according to Bonar and colleagues (2020) “this RCT is one of the first to examine the efficacy of SMIs to reduce risk drinking among adolescents and emerging adults” (p. 9). Website: The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report that poor mental health can negatively affect many areas of an adolescent’s life (Centers for Disease Control, 2020). Report: While social media platforms have changed, Facebook and YouTube continue to be widely used by adults in the United States (Perrin & Anderson, 2019).