Week 6 Print Academic Integrity Creating change is one of the key factors of Marriage and Family Therapy. Therefore, it is crucial for you to develop a profound understanding of the different types of change that may occur in therapy and yourself as a therapist and a graduate student. Specifically, now that you have had a few weeks in the graduate program, you will consider if the change is needed in your thoughts regarding academic integrity and writing, conducting research, and time management skills. As you read last week, systems function with rules. These rules are insights that guide interactions and can be both explicit (a specific curfew time) or implicit (an unspoken understanding about how members of the system should behave; for example, people do not tend to discuss family issues outside the family).  This week, you will focus on explicit rules. Within many academic fields, a set of rules is established to inform how authors in the field communicate. In the field of MFT, the American Psychological Association’s (APA) formatting guidelines are followed. These guidelines identify how to properly cite sources and how to structure an academic paper so you produce work that adheres both to NCU’s and to your profession’s academic integrity standards. In a nutshell, academic integrity involves you producing original work for each assignment and giving credit appropriately when you use others’ work to support your ideas. Not following this policy (submitting work that is not your own  or not giving credit when using other sources) will have consequences as severe as dismissal from the program. Please Note: APA formatting, appropriate paraphrasing, and academic integrity are expected throughout this course and for all courses in this program. Therefore, you are expected to apply the information from these resources when you prepare all the assignments. Be sure to review all the resources available in Academic Writer, which is accessible through the Academic Success Center (ASC) link at the bottom of your NCUOne home page. Review the resources listed below (and previously provided resources, as needed) to prepare for this week’s assignments. The resources may include textbook reading assignments, journal articles, websites, links to tools or software, videos, handouts, rubrics, etc. 0 %0 of 1 topics complete Show data table for This chart displays the number of completed topics versus the total number of topics within module Week 6.. List of Topics and Sub-Modules for Week 6 · Week 6 - Assignment: Apply Proper Rules of Writing in an Academic System Assignment Top of Form Bottom of Form This assignment is divided into three parts: · After reviewing this week’s resources, write a brief summary identifying the consequences of academic integrity violations and resources available to students to assist with writing and APA format. · Next, review the Week 6 Writing Samples doc.

1. Week 6
Print
Academic Integrity
Creating change is one of the key factors of Marriage and
Family Therapy. Therefore, it is crucial for you to develop a
profound understanding of the different types of change that
may occur in therapy and yourself as a therapist and a graduate
student. Specifically, now that you have had a few weeks in the
graduate program, you will consider if the change is needed in
your thoughts regarding academic integrity and writing,
conducting research, and time management skills.
As you read last week, systems function with rules. These rules
are insights that guide interactions and can be both explicit (a
specific curfew time) or implicit (an unspoken understanding
about how members of the system should behave; for example,
people do not tend to discuss family issues outside the family).
This week, you will focus on explicit rules. Within many
academic fields, a set of rules is established to inform how
authors in the field communicate. In the field of MFT, the
American Psychological Association’s (APA) formatting
guidelines are followed. These guidelines identify how to
properly cite sources and how to structure an academic paper so
you produce work that adheres both to NCU’s and to your
profession’s academic integrity standards. In a nutshell,
academic integrity involves you producing original work for
each assignment and giving credit appropriately when you use
others’ work to support your ideas. Not following this policy
(submitting work that is not your own
or
not giving credit when using other sources) will have
consequences as severe as dismissal from the program.
Please Note:
APA formatting, appropriate paraphrasing, and academic

2. integrity are expected throughout this course and for all courses
in this program. Therefore, you are expected to apply the
information from these resources when you prepare all the
assignments. Be sure to review all the resources available in
Academic Writer, which is accessible through the Academic
Success Center (ASC) link at the bottom of your NCUOne home
page.
Review the resources listed below (and previously provided
resources, as needed) to prepare for this week’s assignments.
The resources may include textbook reading assignments,
journal articles, websites, links to tools or software, videos,
handouts, rubrics, etc.
0 %0 of 1 topics complete
Show data table for This chart displays the number of completed
topics versus the total number of topics within module Week 6..
List of Topics and Sub-Modules for Week 6
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Week 6 - Assignment: Apply Proper Rules of Writing in
an Academic System
Assignment
Top of Form
Bottom of Form
This assignment is divided into three parts:
· After reviewing this week’s resources, write a brief summary
identifying the consequences of academic integrity violations
and resources available to students to assist with writing and
APA format.
· Next, review the Week 6 Writing Samples document found in
this week’s resources. The first sample is titled Collaborative
Language Systems - Introduction. Edit this portion of the paper
for grammar, formatting, and citations. Be sure to use the Track

3. Change feature in Word.
· Then, review the sample in the same document titled
Collaborative Language Systems - Founders. Summarize and
paraphrase the content.
Total Length: 3-5 pages
Your assignment should demonstrate thoughtful consideration
of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing
new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your
response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA
standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University's
Academic Integrity Policy.
Collaborative Language Systems
Introduction:
Collaborative language systems – CLS, also referred to as
collaborative therapy is a postmodern approach to therapy built
on language and communication. It can be described as “a
language system and a linguistic event in which people are
engaged in a collaborative relationship and conversation—a
mutual endeavor toward possibility” (Anderson, p. 2, 1997).
The theory and therapeutic approach to collaborative language
systems was a joint venture between Harlene Anderson & Harry
Goolishian developed in the 1980s. However, the foundational
roots of this model can be traced all the way back to the ideas
of David Jackson, Gregory Bateson, and Kenneth Gergen and
later to that of the Mental Research Institute - MRI Team
(Anderson and Gehart, 2012).
This model is based in social constructionist theory and
hermeneutics. Collaborative therapists believe that our
experiences of reality are constructed via the ways in which we
interact with other people… a central idea behind social
constructionism. Hermeneutics on the other hand deals with the
methodology of interpretation. Combined together,
collaborative language systems therapists rely on assessing the
language clients use in therapy to help navigate the process of
finding solutions to their clinical problems.

4. References
Anderson, H. (1997). Conversation, language, and possibilities:
A postmodern approach
to therapy. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Anderson, H., & Gehart, D. (2012).
Collaborative therapy: Relationships and conversations
that make a difference.
Collaborative Language Systems
Founders
Harlene Anderson and the late Harry Goolishian developed the
collaborative language systems approach, an approach to
therapy that originally evolved from the early works of family
therapy. Sometime in the 1970s, Goolishian led an
interdisciplinary team at the University of Texas Medical
Branch in Galveston. They employed an approach called
Multiple Impact Therapy (MIT) and worked intensively with
adolescents with psychiatric problems. This was a short-term
family centered approach and they included the adolescents,
their families and other professionals as well in their treatment
and care.
Around the same time, members of this group became interested
in the work of the MRI team based out of Palo Alto, California.
The MRI team recommended that therapists use and speak the
clients’ language in therapy rather than teach the client to speak
the therapist’s language. This way of thinking caused the team
at Galveston to move away from cybernetics and general
systems theories and they now began to focus on the clients’
language as being central to therapy. Anderson and Goolishian
(1988) now assumed that human beings are language systems,
language-meaning-making system. This gave way to the
possibility of exploring therapy as a conversational dialogue
and hence the beginning of therapy based on a collaborative
language systems approach.
References

5. Anderson, H. & Goolishian, H. A. (1988), Human Systems as
Linguistic Systems: Preliminary and Evolving Ideas about the
Implications for Clinical Theory.
Family Process, 27(4), 371–393. doi:10.1111/j.1545-
5300.1988.00371.x
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