LBSU 302

Week 8- Literature Review

The Journey Ends...............

I guess this is hello for the last time fellow bloggers. It has been a wild ride I must say!

This week was very difficult for me, however I am happy that I was able to complete my final assignment, in what "hopefully", was the correct way. I hesitate because that is where my struggle began and ended this week (finding the correct writing organization for the information I had). Structuring and organizing a literature review was more difficult than I remember it being. Finding ways to group my sources and then arrange them was the hardest thing for me. Additionally, I found it impossible to shrink it down to 2-3 pages as required. There was just too much information to cover with six sources.

Writing a literature review was a long process, however, I believe I will use this process again the next time I am required to write an actual research paper. With all of your sources organized and summarized, it would be much easier, and would probably be a considerably better research paper.

Writing this literature review revealed a few unanswered questions for my research topic. Although there is plenty of information out there on ethics and therapist self-disclosure, I did not find any indicating the variances of reactions, and effects, of therapist self-disclosure between different ethnicity or age groups. This is an area that needs to be explored further. It is my theory that older generations may view therapist self-disclosure as inappropriate, but so far I have not located a study that addresses this aspect. I will however, continue the search!

As always, thanks for reading my blog!