COUN 611
RESEARCH PAPER INSTRUCTIONS
You will choose a counseling topic related to Hederson & Thompson chs. 19–20, and you will
write a Research Paper about a topic very specific to counseling children. Please note, this is a
class on counseling the child; do not research and report on issues related to counseling the
adolescent for that is a different class and developmental stage. Choose 1 topic area from the
text, such as Counseling Children Who Have Been Abused or Counseling Grieving Children.
You must research empirically-based* approaches to counseling children with that specific need
and discuss the evidences practices associated with such a need. Discuss the relevant issues
associated with the identified issue and the best approaches identified.
Include at least 10 relevant journal articles in your paper. At least 8 articles must be empirical
and published within the last 5 years. The body of the paper is to be 10–12 pages in length
(excluding the required Title Page, Abstract, and Reference Page) double-spaced, and in Times
New Roman 12 font.
*Background on Empirical Studies: Reports of empirical studies summarize original research.
Mean journal articles are reports of empirical studies. In order to learn how to review the
literature, it is important to be able to read and understand reports of empirical studies. Empirical
articles have the following sections: abstract, introduction, method, results, discussion, and
references.