Family Counseling Approach Research Paper Assignment Instructions
Overview
You are required to write a research paper/formal literature review in current APA format on one specific approaches to family counseling. This paper will require a cover page, abstract, 10 pages in the body of the paper, and reference page(s). This paper will be divided into three parts described below.
Instructions
Part I:
You are required to write a research paper/formal literature review in current one of the specific approaches to family counseling (NOT a technique):
Psychodynamic/psychoanalytic models
Bowen’s Family Systems Therapy model
Whitaker’s Symbolic-Experiential Family Therapy model
Kemplers’s Gestalt Family Therapy model
Satir’s Human Validation Process model
Johnson and Greenberg’s Emotionally Focused Therapy model
Minuchin’s Structural Family Therapy model
Haley and Madanes’ Strategic Family Therapy model
Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapy models
Solution-Focused Therapy and Collaborative Therapy models
Narrative Therapy models
After you provide an introduction paragraph with a thesis statement, you should include the following major topics in your paper and indicate them in APA Level 1 heading format:
Leading Figures
Development of the Theory/Historical Events
Basic Assumptions and Key Philosophy
Key Concepts
Techniques
Similarities and Dissimilarities (here you need to identify two similarities AND two dissimilarities between the chosen theory and other leading theories)
New Knowledge Acquired (here you need to identify two pieces of information that you have gained from completing this assignment)
