Running head: Blended families 1 Blended families 4Blended Family Counseling Advantages Azurdee Brown Liberty University Topic Rationale The topic rationale should answer the following questions: 1. What is your topic? Blended Family Counseling 2. Why did you select this topic? I have a blended family when I remarried. I have a older step daughter who resides with me along with my two daughters 3. How does this topic apply in multicultural counseling? Although my husband and I were both raised in African-American, Christian homes our parenting styles are quite different and it causes issues within our marriage. I am in the military and firmly believe that if you supply children with the necessary tools for success they should be able to take those tools and use them to their advantage. My husband is a parent that I consider an enabler. He does not push his daughter to do anything outside of her comfort zone. He feels that in due time she will find her way in life while we put our lives on hold waiting. Based on the way my parents raised me, I firmly believe in raising children to become independent adults. My husband was raised to allow children to find their own way in life and hope for the best. Please submit the Title page following APA formatting and your topic "rationale" following the instructions provided. Title pages require a running head, aligned left with page numbers on the same line just inside the right margin. Your topic is included in a block centered vertically and horizontally on the page. In addition to the title of your proposed work please also include your name, the class and the date in the Title page block. Your Rationale is included on the second page. Please do research and include academic references and your biblical world view with Bible scripture in your rationale References Last Name, F. M. (Year). Article Title. Journal Title, Pages From - To. Last Name, F. M. (Year). Book Title. City Name: Publisher Name. If you cite a work discussed in a secondary source, give the secondary source in the reference list; in the text name the original work, and give a citation for the secondary text, e.g. Text citation: Booth's study on teen drinking (Atkins, 1993) reveals several trends. APA format for a secondary source of someone else's work Atkins, P. (1993). The rise of underage drinking. Journal of Psychology, 100, 589-608. APA format for a newspaper article with an author Berkowitz, A. D. (2000, November 24). How to tackle the problem of student drinking [Letter to the editor]. The Columbia Tribune, p. B4. APA format for an article in an edited book Bjork, R. A. (1989). Retrieval inhibition as an adaptive mechanism in human memory. In H. L. Roediger III & F. I. M. Craik (Eds.), Varieties of memory and consciousness (pp. 309-330). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Electronic journal article, three to five authors, retrieved from database Borman, W. C., Hanson, M. A., Coppler, S. H., Pulakos, E. D., & White, L. A ...

1. Running head: Blended families 1
Blended families 4Blended Family Counseling Advantages
Azurdee Brown
Liberty University
Topic Rationale
The topic rationale should answer the following questions:
1. What is your topic? Blended Family Counseling
2. Why did you select this topic? I have a blended family when
I remarried. I have a older step daughter who resides with me
along with my two daughters
3. How does this topic apply in multicultural counseling?
Although my husband and I were both raised in African-
American, Christian homes our parenting styles are quite
different and it causes issues within our marriage. I am in the
military and firmly believe that if you supply children with the
necessary tools for success they should be able to take those
tools and use them to their advantage. My husband is a parent
that I consider an enabler. He does not push his daughter to do
anything outside of her comfort zone. He feels that in due time
she will find her way in life while we put our lives on hold
waiting. Based on the way my parents raised me, I firmly
believe in raising children to become independent adults. My
husband was raised to allow children to find their own way in
life and hope for the best.
Please submit the Title page following APA formatting and your
topic "rationale" following the instructions provided.
Title pages require a running head, aligned left with page
numbers on the same line just inside the right margin. Your
topic is included in a block centered vertically
and horizontally on the page. In addition to the title of your
proposed work please also include your name, the class and the

2. date in the Title page block.
Your Rationale is included on the second page. Please do
research and include academic references and your biblical
world view with Bible scripture in your rationale
References
Last Name, F. M. (Year). Article Title. Journal Title, Pages
From - To.
Last Name, F. M. (Year). Book Title. City Name: Publisher
Name.
If you cite a work discussed in a secondary source, give the
secondary source in the reference list; in the text name the
original work, and give a citation for the secondary text, e.g.
Text citation:
Booth's study on teen drinking (Atkins, 1993) reveals several
trends.
APA format for a secondary source of someone else's work
Atkins, P. (1993). The rise of underage drinking. Journal of
Psychology, 100, 589-608.
APA format for a newspaper article with an author
Berkowitz, A. D. (2000, November 24). How to tackle the
problem of student drinking [Letter to the editor]. The
Columbia Tribune, p. B4.
APA format for an article in an edited book
Bjork, R. A. (1989). Retrieval inhibition as an adaptive
mechanism in human memory. In H. L. Roediger III & F. I.
M. Craik (Eds.), Varieties of memory and consciousness (pp.
309-330). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Electronic journal article, three to five authors, retrieved from
database
Borman, W. C., Hanson, M. A., Coppler, S. H., Pulakos, E. D.,

3. & White, L. A. (1993). Role of early supervisory experience in
supervisor performances. Journal of Applied Psychology, 78,
443-449. doi:10.1037/0021-9010.78.3.443
If the information is obtained from an aggregated database,
providing the name of the database is sufficient; no address is
needed.
APA format for information from web sites
Canarie, Inc. (1997, September 27). Towards a Canadian health
IWAY: Vision, opportunities and future steps. Retrieved
fromhttp://www.canarie.ca/press/publications/pdf/heath/
healthvision.doc
Chou, L. (1993). Choosing pasts and imagining futures.
Retrieved from Columbia University, Institute for Learning
Technologies Web
site:http://www.ilt.Columbia.edu/publications
/papers/newwine1.html
You can split a "www" at a "/" or "" to maintain the one inch
margin on the right. If information is obtained from a document
on the Internet, provide the Internet address for the document at
the end of the retrieval statement.
APA format for an article in a magazine
Kandel, E. R., & Squire, L. R. (2000, November
10). Neuroscience: Breaking down scientific barriers to the
study of brain and mind. Science, 290, 1113-
1120.doi:10.1126/science.290.5494.1113
APA format for scholarly journal article
Mellers, B. A., & Smoot, T. R. (2000). Choice and the relative
pleasure of consequences. Psychological Bulletin, 126(2), 910-
924. doi:10.1037/0033- 2909.126.6.910

4. APA format for a book
Mitchell, T. R., & Larson, J. R. (1987). People in organizations:
An introduction to organizational behavior (3rd ed.). New York,
NY: McGraw-Hill.
APA format for a newspaper article with no author
New drug appears to sharply cut risk of death from heart
failure. (1993, July 15). The Washington Post, p. A12.
Multipage document created by private organization, no date
Public Campaign. (n.d.). Death penalty: Cruel and unusual
punishment. Retrieved from http://www.publiccampaign.org
Use n.d. (no date) when a publication date is not available. Also
use the URL that links the entry to the home page if there are
multiple URLs within that web site.