Journal Article Review Assignment Instructions

Overview

For this Journal Article Review Assignment, you will read one of the articles from the professional, peer-reviewed journal articles provided in the Learn section of Module 1, Week 1. You will then write an article review based on your chosen article.

Instructions

Your Journal Article Review Assignment must be approximately 4–5 double-spaced pages (not including the title and reference pages) and must be created in a Microsoft Word document. Use the following guidelines to create your Journal Article Review Assignment:

1. Provide a title page in current APA format.Divide your summary into sections with the following Level One headings: Summary, Interaction, and Application (review the current APA Manual for guidance on levels of headings if needed). An abstract is not needed for this assignment. For more information on how the title page should look according to Liberty University Standards, please reference this website: https://www.liberty.edu/online/wp-content/uploads/…

2. Develop a summary of the main concepts from the article. Do not duplicate the article’s abstract. If the article describes a research study, include brief statements about the hypotheses, methods, results, discussion, and implications. If any test measures or statistical methods used are given in the article, do not provide detailed descriptions of these. Short direct quotations from the article are acceptable, but avoid long quotations in a paper this size. This section is the foundation of your Journal Article Review Assignment (at least a third of your paper). Make sure that you include the core points from the article, even if it means a longer section.

3. In your own words, interact (in approximately 2 pages) with the article. Appropriate comments for this part of the Journal Article Review Assignment should include, but are not limited to: your initial response to the article, comments regarding the study’s design or methodology (if any), insights you gained from reading the article, your reasons for being interested in this particular article, any other readings that you may plan to do based upon having read the article, and other thoughts you have that might further enhance the discussion of your article. Your subjective comments in this section must be clearly tied to main points from the article, not peripheral ideas. You are highly encouraged to consider any other information from previous articles or textbooks you may have read in previous courses, or in other places you have encountered information relating to the themes in the article you are reviewing. For example, does the ACA Code of Ethics have anything to say about the themes being discussed in your journal article? Are there passages of Scripture that directly relate to the article? Are there ideas and concepts from previous courses you have taken in your program here at Liberty or elsewhere that relate to the article you have chosen? You are encouraged to include them, and make sure you include proper citations and references at the end of your Journal Article Review Assignment. The best papers from this assignment will be from students who share other ideas from at least two other academic sources (with proper citations) in this section, along with Scriptural insight.

4. In your final section (in approximately 1 page) write how you would apply the information you have learned from this article to a particular counseling situation. This could be in a church or clinical session. Develop this section as if you are a clinician, or even a pastor, and your parishioner or client has come to you with a problem—grief, depression, substance abuse, infidelity, etc.—and is needing your help. Adequately describe the counseling scenario, including the presenting problem. Draw out concepts from the article and apply the concepts from this article to the scenario. Show the reader how you are expressly drawing from the journal article in this application section; be sure to cite correctly in current APA format.