4mat review mcminn | CMHC 506 – Integration of Spirituality and Counseling | Liberty University

The 4MAT Review is a way of responding to readings, lectures, and life experiences that requires you, the learner, to interact with new ideas on several levels. You will write a review for the McMinn textbook. In preparing your 4MAT Review, use each of the sections listed below with corresponding Level One headings in current APA format:

1. Provide      a title page including only your name, the paper title (referring      to the book title), and the institutional affiliation (Liberty      University). Keep in mind that current APA standards recommend the title      length not exceed 12 words. Also, keep in mind that the Running Head of      your paper should be in the neighborhood of four to six words. All pages      must include a running head and page number, and all pages are double      spaced. Please include an abstract on page 2.
2. Summary:      After introducing the name of      the book and author, summarize the book in approximately      2 pages. Be      appropriately concise but also be adequately complete in your ideas. Prove      that you comprehend the main ideas by writing a clear and succinct      summary. The summary is not      a commentary or listing of topics but rather a discussion of the core ideas (main ideas) in the      entire book. If you miss the main ideas, you lack an understanding of the      complete message of the book. The summary provides the      foundation for the rest of your 4MAT paper. Cite the book in-text at least      once per paragraph and include page numbers for direct quotations.
3. Concrete      Responses: Be vulnerable. In approximately 1 page, write about a personal life episode that this book      triggered in your memory. Relate your story in first person,      describing action and quoting exact words you remember hearing or saying.      In the teaching style of Jesus, this is your own parable, case study, or      personal connection to the main ideas of the book. Your comments in this      section need to be clearly tied to main points from the book, not      tangential ideas. Connect your comments to the main points for the reader.
4. Reflection:      This section is a short      critique or evaluation of the author’s main ideas; include positives/negatives      and strengths/weaknesses. You should consider new      questions that arose for you in response to what you have read and explore      concerns, implications, etc. Also, consider other sources that you have      encountered in your life up to this point that relate to this book, such      as other textbooks, journal articles, Scripture passages, and even ethical      codes such as those in the ACA Code of Ethics (2014). Provide this critique in approximately 1 ½ pages (sometimes      additional length may be needed to provide an adequate critique).
5. Theological Interaction:      This section is a significant part of your paper (25 points out of 125      points), and you are required to reflect on the question assigned to you,      depending on the text you are reading for the particular 4MAT assignment. In approximately 2 pages

McMinn text. In approximately 2 pages, respond to the following issue: McMinn discusses guidelines when confronting sin during a counseling experience, and the lectures reviewed some factors as well. Why can a sensitive Christian counselor not just automatically and quickly confront obvious sin in the life of the client? Of the cautions mentioned by McMinn and other class sources, which ones to you think counselors most often overlook? Why? You are also encouraged to share any passages or stories in Scripture that directly relate to this issue. When identifying this story or stories, take time to clearly describe how this passage of Scripture directly relates to what you are communicating.

1. Action: What      are you going to do about it? Develop action steps based on the core      points of the book. This section must be a description of how the main      ideas will affect your counseling. What professional changes will you      implement and share with others? Be precise in summarizing your action      steps and clearly connect your action steps to main points from the book.      This section must be 1      page or less.
2. You      are also required to create a references page; on this page, you      must provide the complete reference citation for the book, along with      other materials, in compliance with current APA standards.

Create and submit these assignments in a Microsoft Word document; these assignments must be written at the graduate level and must be in current APA format. 

Note: Use quotations strategically and sparingly; in a paper this size, do not use longer (block) quotations.

You are highly encouraged to use the following website as a reference for proper APA formatting (This is a sample APA formatted paper):

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/apa_sample_paper.html