Description of Lit Review RA:
In this assignment, you will investigate a topic of closed head wounds and traumatic brain injury in professional counseling. This topic is appropriate to your area of specialization. There will be current professional issues and a social justice issue in counseling. The literature review is designed to increase your knowledge of the topic and improve clinical mental health counseling practice or service delivery. Information included in the literature review should be current and scholarly in order to be relevant.
Instructions:
1. Access a minimum of ten (10) CURRENT peer reviewed articles in the Argosy library, 2009 - 2016
2. Based on the articles, develop an introduction on the background of the topic.
3. Analyze all articles and describe the key themes that emerge across the selected articles.
4. Synthesize the material and summarize the patterns of similarities and differences regarding how each of the authors has presented each theme.
5. Based on your analysis of the literature, conclude by evaluating the impact of your chosen topic to clinical mental health counseling practices, and explain how you plan to continue developing in this area.
Your final product will be a 10-page Word document written in APA format, utilizing at least ten scholarly sources. Your paper should be written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
1) Resource Selection:Access a minimum of ten (10) current peer reviewed articles in the Argosy library. Chose at least ten articles from 2009 - 2016 that discuss some aspects of this topic. Ensured that selected articles reflect a blend of research that has contributed to generation of applicable theories as well as a critique and affirmation of the specific theories.
2) Paper Introduction:Develop an introduction on the background of the topic.The first paragraph introduces the topic, describes the relevance to counseling, the importance of the topic, and tells the reader what will be discussed in the rest of the paper.
3) Literature Review:Analyze all articles and describe the key themes that emerge across the selected articles.Major theories and trends associated with the chosen topic are described that emerge from the articles.
4) Theme Identification:Synthesize the material and summarize the patterns of similarities and differences regarding how each of the authors has presented each theme.Response incorporates analysis and synthesis of similarities and differences in the approaches from the literature.
5) Conclusion: Conclude by evaluating the impact of your chosen topic to clinical mental health counseling practices, and explain how you plan to continue developing in this area.Evaluation justified the impact the chosen topic has on the clinical mental health counseling practices. Explanation of further growth in this area utilizes best practices in professional development.
6) Academic Writing:Write in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrate ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources (i.e. APA); and display accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.Written in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in appropriate and accurate representation and attribution of sources; and displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Use of scholarly sources aligns with specified assignment requirements.