Couple or Family Issues Application Paper-Draft 1: Topic and Rationale
Overview: At the end of this course, students will submit a 20-25, and no more than 30 page, paper applying a specific couple, family or systems/relational approach, practice or program to a particular issue, condition or context. As part of this process, student will complete a series of 5 draft paper assignments that will be compiled into the final Couple, Family and Systems Issues Application Paper. Topic should inform the current literature, and therefore be original and not already substantively represented in the scholarly literature. Draft Paper 1: For this week’s assignment you are to submit a topic idea and a half and no more that full page rationale for your proposed topic. The instructor will review topic for approval and provide iterative feedback to the student until the topic is finalized and approved.
Writing A Rationale
A rationale helps the writer clarify their reason for pursuing the topic they have chosen and helps the reader to see the likely direction of the project. Below you will find a set of questions that should be answered as part of your paper topic rationale.
What is your research topic or question?
What do you hope to discover as a result of this project?
In other words, what are your objectives in conducting this project?
Why is this topic or subject important?
What is the significance of the subject to your field or population of interest?
What questions, problems, gaps or needs with this project address?
What do you hope to be the “take away” of your paper?
How do you hope for this paper to inform theory, research, practice and/or policy
My research topic details so far. Research method: Transcendental Phenomenology
Theory: Attachment theory, Polyvagal Theory, and Narrative Therapy Interventions: EMDR in conjunction with Yoga Therapy or Yoga Therapy for Trauma Question: The Lived Experience of Preverbal Trauma in Young Adults ages 19-40 (Affecting their ability to develop relationships) The negative core beliefs: I do not deserve to exist; I am a burden. The people who experience trauma in Utero live within the survival instinct. They never make it past that. There is not much research on what it feels like to have trauma and not having the words to use. How can they externalize what they’re feeling and then heal through EMDR and Yoga Therapy? Preverbal trauma – Beginning in utero and up until the age that is dependent on when the kids become verbal. Tying in the neurobiology, use the work of Dan Siegel for neurobiology, Steve Porges for polyvagal theory. Wanting to know the lived experience What is your relationship with having the trauma that you don’t have any language for and how it affects how you show up in the world.
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