{"id":43355,"date":"2025-05-17T22:44:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T22:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/family-systems-contemporary-issues-research-and-therapy-models-paper-evidence-based-summative-assessment\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T22:44:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T22:44:47","slug":"family-systems-contemporary-issues-research-and-therapy-models-paper-evidence-based-summative-assessment","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/family-systems-contemporary-issues-research-and-therapy-models-paper-evidence-based-summative-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Systems, Contemporary Issues, Research and Therapy Models Paper (Evidence-Based), Summative Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your task is to author a research paper which contains a brief literature review and<\/p>\n<p>engages your ability to answer the following questions:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Define a specific contemporary issue that is your focus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Briefly define the issue you selected and provide support for its importance (pick at least one<\/p>\n<p>of these: racism, discrimination, homophobia and issues relevant to LGBTQIA+ persons,<\/p>\n<p>financial stress, divorce conflict, substance use and dependency, disabilities and handicaps,<\/p>\n<p>changing views of marriage)<\/p>\n<p>o provide specific rates, correlations, or statistical significance evidence that<\/p>\n<p>supports the importance of this focus (adjectives alone are not sufficient)<\/p>\n<p>o Support your claims with citations from the papers you found<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explain how couples or families may experience the contemporary issue you selected<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Report on how the issue you selected may affect couples or families\u2019 functions, roles,<\/p>\n<p>expectations, communications, and relationships<\/p>\n<p>Support your claims with citations from the papers you found<\/p>\n<p><strong>Identify one therapy model to support your observations about how this issue affects<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>couples or families <\/strong>(choose at least one of these: (Bowen, Structural, Emotional, Solution<\/p>\n<p>Focused, Experiential, Strategic, Narrative, Contextual, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>Explain what specific strategies (techniques from therapy models) may be used for helping<\/p>\n<p>couples\u2019 or family\u2019s functions as they cope, respond to, or adapt to the issue you selected\u2014<\/p>\n<p>provide at least two therapy strategies or techniques (Bowen, Structural, Emotional, Solution<\/p>\n<p>Focused, Experiential, Strategic, Narrative, Contextual, etc.) for bringing about therapeutic<\/p>\n<p>change or systemic improvement<\/p>\n<p>Support your claims with citations from the papers you found<\/p>\n<p>3. a) <strong>Evaluate the research that exists about specific strategies, or evidence of importance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>to support the issue you selected<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Evaluating therapies for effectiveness includes:<\/p>\n<p>i) Describing the kind of study (experimental or non-experimental)<\/p>\n<p>(1) Group comparison, variable correlation, or cross-sectional survey<\/p>\n<p>(a) How sample was selected? randomly or by convenience?<\/p>\n<p>(b) Control group?<\/p>\n<p>(c) Random assignment?<\/p>\n<p>(d) Sample size?<\/p>\n<p>(2) Correlational or causal results; providing specific statistical evidence (test values and<\/p>\n<p>p values, sample size, confidence intervals as applicable)<\/p>\n<p>(a) Usually, publications include limitations the study authors encountered. This is<\/p>\n<p>part of your evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>(3) Reporting statistical evidence to support evidence that therapy models work<\/p>\n<p>(a) Providing statistical significance (test value and p-value, sample size, confidence<\/p>\n<p>intervals) and\/or practice significance evidence (common sense reasoning)<\/p>\n<p>(4) Explaining one treatment recommendation from the literature that may work for<\/p>\n<p>helping couples or families facing contemporary issues<\/p>\n<p>ii) iii) Supporting your evaluations with citations from the papers you found<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explain how as a counselor (not a social worker, case manager, or other professional)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>you may advocate for couples or families facing the contemporary issue you selected<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>a) Define what advocacy means<\/p>\n<p>b) Explain how you would advocate within the therapeutic encounter. This means empowering<\/p>\n<p>the client so the client may advocate for its own benefit.<\/p>\n<p>i) Explain how your opinion meets ethical standards for counselors (beneficence, non-<\/p>\n<p>maleficence, justice, veracity, confidentiality)<\/p>\n<p>c) 5. Support your claims with citations from the papers you found<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclude with a brief summary of one therapy strategy and one advocacy initiative to<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>help couples or families facing the contemporary issue you selected<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>a) Provide logical reasons that follow from what you discussed above (evidence, limitations,<\/p>\n<p>implications from the papers you read)<\/p>\n<p>b) Support your claims with citations from the papers you found<\/p>\n<p>6. <strong>Provide a complete reference list that includes all citations in your paper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>7. <strong>Tables as needed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>8. <strong>Figures as needed<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your task is to author a research paper which contains a brief literature review and engages your ability to answer the following questions: Define a specific contemporary issue that is your focus Briefly define the issue you selected and provide support for its importance (pick at least one of these: racism, discrimination, homophobia and issues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[7],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/43355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/43355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=43355"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=43355"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=43355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}