Grief Counseling for Clients from Various Faith Group
Sample Article is Attached. You cannot use this article as one of the sources!
- Length of Paper
The Final Paper is 10 pages PLUS the title page, abstract page, and reference pages.
- Title page
- Abstract page
- Body of 10 1/2 pages (1/2 page for abstract)
- Reference page
- Articles Published in the Last 5-years
The 10 research articles from peer-reviewed academic journals dated within the past 5 years. An older article can be used if it is a seminal article or an article that summarizes 10-years of research.
- Articles with a multicultural focus and come from journals related to the human service profession.
Examples of Journals for the Assignment
- Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development
- Multicultural Perspectives
- Journal of Multicultural Discourses
- Journal of Human Services
- Human Services Organization Journal
- Social Work
- Journal of Social Work
- Clinical Social Work Journal
- Health and Social Care in the Community
- Research on Social Work Practice
- The British Social Work Journal
- International Social Work
- Affilia: Journal of Social Work and Women
- Family Relations
- Counseling Today
- Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology
- International Journal of Psychology and Counseling
- Journal of Humanistic Psychology
- Journal of Counseling and Development
Three Mistakes to Avoid:
- Selecting an article that does not have a multicultural focus
- Selecting an article from a journal not related to human services (i.e., political journal, law journal, economics journal, educational journals).
- Using a source other than a peer-reviewed journal article is prohibited.
- DO NOT use material such as online articles, news articles, magazine articles, articles from organizational web site, article from a college/university web site.
An article from a web site such as psychologytoday.com is an online magazine article and not a peer-reviewed article. Or an article from an online organization is not a peer-reviewed article.
- What to keep in mind as you write the final paper
Research-centered assignment based on 10 research study articles: A reminder, the final paper is a research-centered assignment, not a topical paper that draws from a wide range of sourced.
The final paper content must based on the findings of 10 articles from peer-reviewed journals published within the past 5-years not an article from a university web site, organizational web site articles, self-help web sites, newspaper articles, magazine articles, interviews or any of the wiki sites. Peer-reviewed journals live in libraries
Writing Tone: The final paper is a formal scholarly paper, so it is written in the third person and does not include references to yourself or use of first person pronouns (I, me, my), or reference yourself as the writer or the authors. Also do not include personal commentary or personal reflections.
Focus to avoid: Forgetting the topic and paper is for a course in multicultural counseling. For example: Let’s say you chose the topic of grief counseling and presented a paper that discussed different models of grief counseling and a section related to multicultural counseling then you would fail the assignment.
Right focus: For example: The focus of the paper is on grief counseling as it pertains to various multicultural groups. In your research for the paper you will look for journal articles on grief counseling for a range of different ethnic and cultural groups and discuss what research has show to be true for counseling various ethnic and cultural groups.
Suggested Outline and Headings for Final Paper
APA Title Page
Abstract Page
- Introduction
Note: An effective introduction presents the topic of the paper, any needed definition of terms related to the topic and concludes with a thesis or premise statement.
- Literature Review of Peer-Reviewed Articles
Note: Let’s say you chose the topic of grief counseling with different cultural groups. The literature review would present 10 research articles from peer-reviewed academic journals dated within the past 5 years (requirement for final paper). There would be 10 separate paragraphs, with a paragraph devoted to presenting each of the 10 research studies.
III. Application to Human Service Profession
Note: This section of the paper discusses how the information from 10 research studies presented in the literature review could be use in different types of human service profession settings.
Conclusion
Note: The conclusion briefly sums up the major takeaways from the research studies. For example, sometimes you will find common themes in research studies that support findings. Or sometime you will find contradictory findings in research studies indicating more research is needed to clarify issues.
APA Reference Page
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