You are required to write a research paper/formal literature review in current APA format on one specific approach 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.
Part I:
You are required to write a research paper/formal literature review in current APA format on one of the following 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)
