You will write TWO Journal Article Reviews [one each in Modules/Weeks 1 and 5], which will be based

upon your choices from the professional, peer-reviewed journal articles provided below these instructions. NO OUTSIDE ARTICLES WILL BE ACCEPTED. Each Journal Article Summary should be three doublespaced pages (not including the title page and reference page) and created in a Microsoft Word document. Use the following guidelines to create your paper: 1. Provide an APA-style title page, making sure you show the title of the article reviewed, your name, and the institution [Liberty University]. You should also have the running head in the appropriate place and a page number on every page. You must divide your summary into sections with the following Level 1 headings: Summary, Interaction, and Application. Review the APA Manual for how to do this. 2. Develop a brief (1 page) summary of the article in your own words. Do not copy and paste from the journal article--this is plagiarism! Simply provide a brief description in your own words of the topic under consideration in the article. If the article describes a research study, include brief statements in your own words about the hypotheses, methods, results, discussion, and implications. Do not provide detailed descriptions of the test measures or statistical methods used, if any. Short quotations from the article are acceptable, but they should not be more than 1 - 2 sentences. Direct quotations from the article should also be properly cited. This section should take up about a third of your Journal Article Review. Do not reference any additional articles in your summary. 3. In your own words, interact (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 (in your own words) 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. This section should constitute approximately a third of your Journal Article Review. Again, there is no need to reference any other article.

4. The final section is how you would apply (1 page) the information you have learned to a potential counseling setting. 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, needing your help. You may want to pick one of the following "normal" problems for this section: depression, grief, substance abuse, spousal infidelity, unforgiveness, etc. 5. Provide the complete reference citation for the article being summarized on a References page in compliance with APA standards. This means you need to be aware of how and when you use periods, spacing, italics, use or non-use of issue number, etc. Do not simply "copy and paste" the reference from an electronic source. You are required to submit your article in two places before it will be graded. You will be required to submit your papers via a SafeAssign Link, which is a plagiarism detection tool that allows your instructor to verify that your work is original. You will also submit your work through the standard assignment link. Journal Article Review 1 is due by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Sunday of Module/Week 1. Journal Article Review 2 is due by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Sunday of Module/Week 5.

Journal Articles

Use any two of the articles listed below for your Journal Article Review: Use of Prayer and Scripture Therapists' Integration Prayer in Counseling Intervention Studies on Forgiveness: A Meta-Analysis An Exploration of Therapeutic Use of Spiritual Disciplines in Clinical Practice Interventions that Apply Scripture in Psychotherapy Self-Forgiveness: The Stepchild of Forgiveness Research Developing a Spiritual Assessment Toolbox

The Church as Forgiving Community: An Initial Model The Effects of Forgiveness Therapy on Depression, Anxiety, and Posttraumatic Stress for Women After Spousal Emotional Abuse A Phenomenology of the Integration of Faith and Learning