COUN 506 
4MAT R 
EVIEW 
I 
NSTRUCTIONS 
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 2 separate reviews: 1 
review for 
the Entwistle textbook 
and 1 review for 
the McMinn textbook 
. In preparing your 
4MAT Reviews, use each of the 4 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. All pages must include a 
running head and page number, and all pages are double spaced. 
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. Provide this critique in approximately 1 page (sometimes additional length may be 
needed to provide an adequate critique). 
5. 
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. 
6. 
You are also required to create 
a references page 
; on this page, you must provide the 
complete reference citation for the book 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. 
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