You will need your completed Article Review Tool Excel spreadsheet for this discussion.

This discussion is an opportunity to check your use of Excel as a tool to show your work so far on dissecting research studies by sharing your analysis of one of the current studies from a counseling or counselor education and supervision journal you have located in your library research on a potential topic area for dissertation research.*

This discussion is an opportunity to check your use of Excel as a tool to show your work so far on dissecting research studies by sharing your analysis of one of the current studies from a counseling or counselor education and supervision journal you have located in your library research on a potential topic area for dissertation research.

**RESEARCH TOPIC:   quality of life/health and well-being for retired clergy and religious women and men.

Post your Excel spreadsheet with the analysis of one of the current studies you located completed (ensure each of the columns is filled in with the required information).

· Date of publication.

· Journal title.

· Authors and affiliations.

· Need for the study.

· Research question (or questions).

· Population sampled.

· Research method (quantitative or qualitative).

· Method (or methods) of data collection.

· Results (brief list of findings).

· Discussion (implications of findings).

· Limitations.

· Recommendations for further research.

Briefly discuss the recommendations for further research and how you could use those recommendations to develop a study to add to the knowledge base for the field. Be sure you cite and reference the article in correct APA formatting. Remember each discussion is an opportunity to practice APA formatting.