Journal Article Review #2

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JOURNAL ARTICLE REVIEW INSTRUCTIONS

The Review must be approximately 4-5 double-spaced pages (not including the title and

reference pages). Use the following guidelines to create the paper:

1. Provide a title page in current APA format including only your name, the paper title (referring to the article title). Use the running head in the appropriate place and a page

number on every page. Divide the 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).

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 the Journal Article Review (at least a

third of the paper). Make sure that you include the core points from the article, even if it

means a longer section. Do not reference any additional articles in the summary.

3. In your own words, interact (in approximately 1 page) with the article. Appropriate comments for this part of the paper 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. Again, do not reference any other article.

4. In the 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 pastor or clinician 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 to the scenario as if you were guided only by the content of the article. 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.

5. Provide the complete citation for the article being summarized on a reference page in current APA format.