Compare Contrast

compare & contrast paper – use at least 3 peer reviewed articles from professional journals.

Select articles which discuss about a topic (listed below) in professional counseling. Compare and

contrast or summarize (also include your own opinions and reflections with citations) the articles’ views.

Categories/Topics (Select one for each paper):

▪ CURRENT TRENDS IN COUNSELING (e.g., neurological influences; traumatology;

integrative vs eclectic; Accreditation – CACREP, CORE, MPCAP; New CACREP standards;

Specialist vs Generalist; Online vs Face-to-Face Counseling, etc.)

▪ COUNSELOR TRAINING, IDENTITY, & SUPERVISION: Importance of professional

identity; Counselor training models (e.g., APA endorses Scientist-Practitioner model);

Supervision and Supervisor Criteria (e.g., APA and AAMFT require internship and post-

graduate supervision to be conducted by approved supervisors, etc.)

▪ DIVERSITY & MULTICULTURAL COUNSELING: Current Trends and Development

▪ SOCIAL JUSTICE IN COUNSELING: Its Impacts and Implications in Counseling

▪ CLIENT ADVOCACY: Strategies for Advocacy and the Development of Advocacy in

Counseling

▪ ETHICAL & LEGAL PRACTICE OF YOUR COUNSELING: What will be the

ethical/legal concerns when you become a licensed counselor? How are ethical codes preparing

a professional?

▪ LICENSURE & CERTIFICATE: License/Certificate Across States; Mobility of

License/Certificate; Practice Across State Lines

▪ COUNSELING EFFECTIVENESS: Contributing factors to effective counseling; What are

effective therapeutic elements?; Wellness vs Symptom reduction; Medication vs Counseling, etc.

▪ COUNSELING PROCESS & TECHNIQUES: Evidence-based practice; Classical theories vs

New Interventions (Psychoanalysis, Jungian, Adlerian, Rogerian, etc. vs DBT, EMDR, TF-CBT,

etc.); Risk and harm of therapeutic approaches, etc.

▪ RESEARCH: Roles of research in Mental Health Counseling?; Are we merely consumers of

research or involving in research advancement?

This paper should be in APA style with a cover page, body of no less than 2 pages, citations, and reference page (see “APA Format required”). The referenced articles must be from journals or documents as specified by the professor. Be sure to review the articles completely providing a (1) summary of each of the articles, (2) how they are in agreement, disagreement, and a (3) summary noting your observations of the articles and their relative usefulness to the class. These papers will be reviewed for content and APA errors.

The First paper submission will go through these steps: (1) first submit a draft copy to a campus tutor in learning center (online or in person) to be reviewed for APA style errors or writing issues (the first submission should be the draft copy which is uncorrected and includes the tutor’s comments and remarks), (2) Submit the tutor edited copy to Canvas.

Note: learning center will apply its policy in reviewing your draft. Please follow its guidelines to checkyour draft with APA style errors and other writing issues (Objectives 5, 7, 9, & 23)

Use articles provided

American words only

Small minor mistakes for realism

Casual and simplified tone