User:Aebner01/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Aversion therapy

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article to evaluate due to my own interests in the history of aversion therapy as well as the negative consequences associated with this course of treatment. I hope that through this assignment I will have a better understanding of aversion therapy itself, consequences associated with it, as well as alternate therapeutic treatments. My initial impression of the article itself was that there is a substantial gap in the literature connecting aversion therapy to patient success outcome. Within each subsection of the article, there is little to no supportive documentation of the therapy either being successful or unsuccessful. I hope to expand the amount of information on several subcategories pertaining to aversion therapy to paint a more in-depth perspective over what aversion therapy is and how it is used in clinical settings.

Evaluate the article
The Aversion therapy article in a nut shell lacks organization and detail. Starting with the lead section, this part lacks encompassing critical details of all the main points provided within the article. Despite providing an accurate description of aversion therapy, the author fails to describe the different components of aversion therapy in detail in which is critical to include for our readers to have a clear understanding of desired outcomes following treatment. Along with this, there is a lack of outside sources in which provide supplemental support over what is being discussed within the subtopics. For example, there is barely any information pertaining to compulsive habits (a subsection within the article) and how aversion therapy is implemented to modify unwanted behavior. There is a major underrepresentation of the consequences (good and bad) on ones emotional and physical self following treatment such as this. I plan on adding supplemental documentation to help strengthen points made within all of the subsections as well as add in a section in which provides readers with a correlation between the benefits and consequences of this kind of treatment. I also want to make a connection between the types of facilities this kind of therapy is conducted at and how it has changed over the years depending on what behavior is wanting to be modified. Overall there is a lot of room for improvement. The talk page already has a lot of discussion going on between editors and by working together we will be able to put together an article in which encompasses the entirety of aversion therapy. My main focus will be in expanding current subsection with additional information as well as by connecting it to patient success rates.