The purpose of this assignment is to examine how mindfulness and mindfulness-based interventions are used to facilitate healing and recovery for individuals with histories of trauma. Choose a topic regarding a population of focus and trauma type (e.g., bullying, disasters, physical abuse, sexual abuse). In this research paper, you will review the literature and describe how mindfulness has been used for their chosen topic.
The paper should be 7-10 pages not including title and reference page in APA format using peer reviewed articles.
- Succinctly describe and provide background information regarding the population of focus and trauma type. If necessary, define key terms.
- Based on your review of the literature, describe how mindfulness has been used for your chosen topic. Review and only include credible and relevant sources.
- Identify the mindfulness-based intervention that will be evaluated. Succinctly describe the intervention, including its history and a short description of what participants can expect to experience (e.g., what specific techniques or procedures are involved).
- State the aim of your literature review. Identify your research question.
- Define Your Goal – You are providing a self-contained review of writings on a topic related to mindfulness, therefore, you want to state your projects purpose. At the beginning of your paper, define your papers purpose so that the literature review will be anchored to a specific point of view.
- Do Your Research – Review a number of texts that most closely pertain to your topic and position, and are written by relevant scholars. Understand who the top voices are in your topics academic field, and be sure to include the most pertinent publications by those scholars.
- Ground Summary in Relevance – As you summarize each publication, provide the context for that publications importance by tying its main points to your thesis, hypothesis, or project statement. How does it relate? Establish its relevance to the discussion.
- Develop Review Logically – Think of your literature review as a development of an argumentwhat were the earliest ideas on the topic and how did they grow and evolve in the academic conversation of these publications? First things first.
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