13) Reviewing and Promoting Current Articles

@SoulfullyAButterfly

"Powerful ways to improve your body image"

1. Expertise- The writer has given a good beginning to the article. She has the entire article in the required format including graphic, sub-heading and biography.
2. Authority-She has a strong educational qualification. She is an editor by profession.
3. Trust-She has graduated from CDM Program.

@SoulfullyAButterfly

1. Pick one Content Article from the Expert Section - It is recommended to pick one that matches your choice of a focus area/topic.

   Article title: Conquering Anxiety With a Resilient Mindset. This is the link of the article.

2. Mention 3 top strengths of the article in terms of Best Practices.

   1.Empathetic Tone: The article maintains a kind and supportive tone, avoiding stigmatizing language and offering understanding to readers dealing with anxiety.
   
   2.Personal Experiences and Expert Insights: The article combines personal stories with expert opinions, providing a unique perspective and building credibility.
   
   3. Clear and Concise: The article presents information in a clear and accessible manner, ensuring readers can easily understand and relate to the content.
   
   In summary, the article excels in its empathetic tone, incorporation of personal experiences and expert insights, and clear and concise writing style, enhancing its impact on helping readers conquer anxiety with resilience.
   

3. Review the Article for EAT (expertise, authority and trustworthiness) and list at least 2 comments for each of the three factors (can be things followed or tips to boost EAT).

   Expertise:
   
   1.The author demonstrates a personal understanding of anxiety and resilience, drawing from their own experiences.
   2.They mention scholarly references such as Scott (2016) and McIntosh et al. (2017) to support their statements.
   
   Authority:
   
   1. The author's statements are largely based on personal experiences and reflections, without extensive external citations or authoritative sources.
   2.The article would benefit from additional citations or references to enhance the author's authority on the subject matter.
   
   Trustworthiness:
   
   1.The author's personal anecdotes and perspectives contribute to a sense of authenticity and relatability.
   2.While the article contains insights and personal reflections, more external evidence or research-backed information could enhance its trustworthiness.
   

4. Create a graphic to promote your selected content - remember to consider our previously discussed tips as well as peer feedback. Consider using your pseudonym or username if comfortable on the graphic in case of allowing social media usage.

   
   

   Here is the link for the graphic image that I created : https://www.canva.com/design/DAFn-Qv3EJw/JldkvvnFdxo-v2lX9gFG9Q/edit?utm_content=DAFn-Qv3EJw&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton
   

1. Article: 20 Powerful Affirmations to Boost Self Esteem
2. Three Strengths:
   • The article is concise yet thorough. It efficiently answers the main question while also supplementing the “why” it is important.
     
   • The article is uplifting; it gives the readers empathy and hope.
   • The article cites ten sources, and most of them are hyperlinked. The article also includes a lot of back-linking.
3. EAT Review:
   • Expertise
     
     • The author is an experienced writer.
     • The biography can be expanded by adding the author’s credentials.
   • Authoritativeness
     • The author has published many articles on 7 Cups and external platforms.
     • The author’s books have positive reviews on Amazon.
   • Trustworthiness
     • The article uses many reputable sources.
     • The sources are listed in the article.
4. Graphic:
   

@SoulfullyAButterfly

How Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Can Help Overcome Anxiety Disorders
CBT Techniques and Strategies for Anxiety
Written by Ayesha Tariq Ali

The strengths in her article are the accessibility of the resources, how she does not gloss over the specifics but instead dedicated effort into describing the types of anxiety CBT can help with, and her writing is both approachable and empathetic especially in the conclusion - "Anxiety disorders can be debilitating, but they are treatable".

Expertise (credentials or experience of author):
She has a BS in Applied Psychology.
Passion for mental health issues.
Delivers CDMP and contributes to other programs on 7Cups.

Authoritativeness (number of citations):
One Published Article.
Head of Content at 7Cups.
Strong sense of leadership and passion for writing, research, and psychology.

Trust (quality of content):
Well established resource used to reference fasts on CBT.
Articles linked for added help within article. (Gives sense of comfort knowing selfless effort was put forward to promote other helpful articles)

@SoulfullyAButterfly

Article Title: When is it Time To Start Taking Anxiety Seriously?

3 Strengths:

-concise in providing the topic and spreading out the information by sub topics

-gives empathy and hope on the conclusion by saying to talk to someone when taking anxiety seriously

-combined personal and expert experiences regarding details of physical symptoms in anxiety

Expertise: the author is a freelance writer and passionate in mental health

Authoritarian: they gave statistics regarding percent of people with anxiety and who’s getting help

Trust: in articulation of anxiety and how it sounds relatable and providing resources such as cbt

@SoulfullyAButterfly

I chose the “Mood Swings Counseling and Treatment” article. I believe that three strengths include being thorough, concise, and informative.

Expertise: I believe that this article is comprehensive yet digestible. It gives a lot of information but not too much to be overwhelming. However I think the use of backlinks would have been helpful. The writer could have supplemented the keywords: Bpd, bipolar and self care to direct members to articles that would broaden their understanding on those topics.

Authority: There was a lot of good information in this article. However, there were not many citations.

Trust: Since there were no citations, there were no external sources mentioned. Again, citations can help boost the trust in this article. There was also no biography of the writer.

It won't let me post the graphic. I'm going to try again as another reply. Sorry!

Article Title: 3 Ways to Calm Anxiety and Worry Less

Author- Laura Berger, PCC, CEBC

3 Strengths:

• Includes 12/13 resources within her article including studies

• Easy to understand what is being discussed

• She wants to get straight to the point of how to help an individual calm their anxiety

Trust:

• Cites her research throughout the article
• She used reliable resources that are based on ways to calm one's anxiety and help them worry less.
• She cites studies within her article

Expertise:

• She received her Evidence Based Coaching graduate degree from Fielding Graduate University

• She is a C-IQ (Conversational Intelligence) Enhanced Skills Practitioner, Emotional Intelligence- EQ-i 2.0 and EQ 360 B-Level Qualified Practitioner, Pearman Personality Integrator Qualified Practitioner, Professional Certified Coach and The Enneagram Spectrum of Personality Styles Practitioner.

• She has a passion for the Psychology field (ex: anxiety)

• She is a journalist for Psychology Today & Best Seller author for her book “Radical Sabbatical”

Authority:

• She has 2 other articles based on anxiety on 7Cups

• She has worked with several companies such as Huffington Post, Psychology Today, and Forbes as a journalist

• She has a professional profile on several different sites

• She has an understanding of researching and creating articles

  
  

  
  

  Graphic: Anxiety Affirmation Graphic

  
  

1. https://www.7cups.com/experts/article/everything-to-know-about-borderline-personality-disorder-bpd

2. This article is concise and allows a broad range of topics to be covered, it also has a very accessible tone that is easy to read, it has plenty of references

3. EAT- Writer is a psychotherapist, authority in tone and many qualifications, trust in working in healthcare and as a clinical communicator.

@SoulfullyAButterfly

1) Article: I’m so OCD"— Unless You Actually Are, Stop Saying It. Here’s Why.

https://www.7cups.com/experts/article/why-you-should-never-say-im-so-ocd-unless-you-really-are

2) Mention 3 top strengths of the article in terms of Best Practices.

The article is helpful and informative, and it uses destigmatizing language. It also combines personal experience, as well as two different sources to confirm the facts stated.

3) Review the article for EAT (expertise, authority, and trustworthiness) and list at least 2 comments for each of the three factors (can be things followed or tips to boost EAT).

Expertise

The writer of the article is a Social Media Manager for the National Council for Behavioral Health.

She also previously managed group support and the teen community on 7 Cups.

She has experience working on crisis and suicide prevention hotlines and other mental health organizations.

Authority

The author has three other published articles on 7 Cups.

The article has two different links, one to an OCD path and the other to some information on mental health. The article would benefit from a link to a research article.

Trust

She has worked with national mental health nonprofit organizations.

The article could be improved with more sources. There is only a link to a growth path and a link to a 7-cup page unrelated to OCD. It needs to be linked to the topic at hand.

4) Create a graphic to promote your selected content - remember to consider our previously discussed tips as well as peer feedback. Consider using your pseudonym or username if comfortable on the graphic in case of allowing social media usage.

https://imgur.com/a/CBXQdqs

@SoulfullyAButterflyI picked the article Powerful Ways To Improve Your Body Image

Some things they did very well are making the writing very conversational. They ask lots of questions and the article is written in a very friendly way while still being very informative. Something else they also do well is providing empathy. They recognize common situations or thoughts that might occur and reassure the reader that these thoughts are not unreasonable. Lastly they made their article easily shareable. The writing is easy to remember and also very equally informative.

Expertise -> She mentions her English education degree which establishes that she knows what she's doing while making this article. She also talks about how she's learning copyright and content creation further enforcing her expertise in article creation.
Authority -> She shows her authority while she talks about her education. Her authority is also expressed when she talks about her extensive work as an editor.

Trustworthiness -> she talks about how she has graduated from the CDM program which helps the reader gain trust that she not only knows how to create articles but also articles to the 7cups standards. She also talks about her experience in the beginning which allows people to trust her professionalism.