ESSAY INSTRUCTIONS:
Post a draft of your scientific and mathematical/analytical inquiry paper for peer review. You should also post your level 1 and level 2 research questions. Identify any questions or challenges you faced with the assignment, or mention something new you learned about the research question and inquiry paper process. Pose specific questions you would like your peers to address.Additional instructions:
This week, as part of your Discussion Board posts, you are going to submit the DRAFT version of your first paper, which does not have to be perfectly complete. The reason for this assignment is to show your classmates (and me) what information are you going to put in your paper, maybe get some ideas from your classmates, be sure that you are on the right track.
Find information from your articles that you have in hand related to the scientific aspect of the topic (scientific perspective of inquiry section), also some statistical and/or economic data to describe the distribution and significance of the topic.
To start your research, ask research questions (what exactly you would like to know about the topic?) Use examples of level 1 questions in the BB (see the Instructions and Information on this week’s assignment in “Content and Activities” link from the left panel on your Blackboard page), or make up your own, trying to learn about maybe genetic aspects, pathophysiology or current breakthrough discoveries on diagnosis, prevention, or such. Then ask a level 2 question where you will explain, relate, or compare those issues that are related to directly to your topic. Come up with two levels of questions for each of the perspectives of inquiry – scientific and mathematical/analytical.
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Find up to 4 empirical, peer-reviewed research articles from this database: sociological abstracts (Links to an external site.)
In NO MORE THAN 2-3 double-spaced pages, please respond to the following questions using 1-inch margins and a 12-point font. Do not include a cover page, just start your paper on the first page and please include a bibliography (which does not count toward your page limit).
As with Assignment #2, you should start your submission with an introductory paragraph that summarizes the paper. For example, in the introduction, the first sentence could introduce the topic, then briefly summarize the claims from the research article in the second sentence. The third and fourth sentences will summarize the limitations of the research articles, and finally in the fifth/sixth sentences, you state what you propose to do about those limitations in your own study. What tools do you have at your disposal to solve the problems with the designs of past studies you are reading? This last sentence should state the research design you propose to solve the limitations with the papers you reviewed. Think about it is your thesis, it is supposed to be an argument or claim you are making, and the position that you will defend in the paper. In other words, what sort of research design would you need to address the limitations of the research articles you found?
With an introduction paragraph that is set-up this way, the rest of your paper is basically organized. You can then devote one or two paragraphs to each of these sentences and expand on them in greater detail.
For your sources:
- Use three peer-reviewed empirical articles as your research sources. Of your research sources, please make sure only one of them is a review piece, such as from Annual Review of Sociology, the remainder must be empirical articles based on data/experiments.
- Make sure to include a variety of methods in the research sources. That means incorporate research articles that use different methods such as quantiative and qualitative approaches.
- In your essay, please analyze the strengths and weaknesses of each research method you find in your research articles, describing the method of data collection and analysis and including your own critical opinion of the methods. Why is it limited?
- Incorporate in your analysis the concepts from all the chapters we have covered in class.
- Please assess the research articles based on these factors and then reflect on these factors critically: do you think they are good enough criteria to evaluate research methods? What do you think is missing, what could be done differently to improve them beyond these factors?
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CULTURE AND MENTAL HEALTH Research Paper
- What does the historical perspective show us about Psychiatry?
- Considering the processes lived during the colonial period, which were some of the differences between western and non-western societies in their understanding and treatments for mental health conditions?
- What does the Global Mental Health perspective propose to approach the study and treatment of mental health conditions?
- What does Kleinman argue about the diagnosis process in Psychiatry?
- What does Kleinman mean with the following argument: “the experience of illness (or distress) is always a culturally shaped phenomenon”?
