Category: Writing

For your Final Project, you will write a 8- to 10-page theory paper that articulates your theoretical orientation toward working with couples and families.
Your paper must include the following elements that evolve from your personal theoretical orientation:
The basic view of human nature as seen through your theoretical lens
Key factors that account for changes in behavior
An explanation of how intervention strategies are designed within this theoretical orientation
An explanation of how your theory conceptualizes mental health
Key factors that contribute to healthy family/couple relationships
A description of the skills necessary within this theoretical orientation to meet the agreed upon goals and outcomes for couples and families
The nature of the practitioner-client relationship and its relative importance
An explanation of the evidence to support your theoretical orientation as an appropriate intervention for couples and families in need.

Submit
a 5- to 7-page paper in which you address the following four areas:
Describe the agency setting. Is it public or private, non-profit or for-profit? Is the agency’s primary goal to serve trauma survivors? Approximately what percentage of clients would be defined as trauma survivors?
Explain each of the 10 implementation domains in detail and discuss if/how well the setting applies each of the 6 principles. You may want to present this in table format with a brief narrative.
What are your ideas for improving the principles that are not well implemented? Be specific about organizational, environmental, programmatic, and/or administrative changes that would need to be made.
Address the barriers to creating trauma-informed services in this setting.

Review the CDC website and answer at least three of the questions below:
Who is the writer?
What is the writer’s purpose?
Who is the intended audience?
What is the broader cultural context that motivated the writing of the article?
How does the writer establish ethos?
Does the writer appeal to logos (logic)?
Does the writer appeal to pathos (emotions)?
Do you feel that the website is effective? Why or why not?

compare the women protagonists, Jig in Hemingway’s story and Louise Mallard in Chopin’s stories. What is the conflict each confronts? How do they approach their dilemmas? Did either make a conscious decision? Do either of these women change or grow in character? Does either resolve her conflict? If so, how? Although one has no future, what do you predict will happen to the other?
Although you do not have to write a formal essay, be sure to use standard written English and observe the rules of academic writing learned in your college writing classes. Also quote from the text to support your main points.
Your response should be about 700 to 800 words.