Mental health for homelessness
Assignment Instructions: Topic should be Mental health for homelessness Find a minimum of three sources to develop background knowledge of your topic. These types of sources can be news stories, long form journalism, authoritative sites or academic sites (but not scholarly) but at least one source must come from the New York Times (as students, you are able to subscribe to the NY Times for free… this is me encouraging you to do so:)
Find at least two sociological, scholarly articles to deepen the discussion of the background information that you present. Your scholarly articles should be connected to your findings from the background research.
Find at least two sources of help and support that reflect our work in this class. This means that you should find sources that are not part of a medical model and that move beyond psychology. For this aspect of the paper, I am looking for a critical perspective of helping and one that delves into alternative ways of healing and helping beyond the medical model.
Construct a fantastic scholarly paper using the guidelines below 🙂
Once you have found all background sources and relevant literature please format your paper using the following guidelines (please include headings in your paper):
Introduction
Introduce the topic you have chosen by reviewing the background information that you found through the library website. This should be a comprehensive discussion of the topic that connects to culture, and legitimate news sources. This should also be a broad, structural understanding of the topic.
Literature Review
Please note: When writing about the literature I expect proper language use and an academic voice. Please see “do’s and don’ts” for writing about scholarly literature on the resource module.
For each of your chosen scholarly articles, discuss the major focus and findings from both articles. You do not have to review both articles entirely, but you should pull relevant and connected information from the literature. The information that you review should connect to your background information but also add an important sociological perspective of the topic.
Help and Support
Locate sources that offer support in a way that challenges a dominant, medicalized approach. I am very open to sources that are considered alternative in some way such as art, music, poetry, anti-psychiatry, intersectional feminist etc. Your sources should reflect social justice and reflect some of the critiques that we have reviewed in class. I am very open to how you decide to approach this aspect of the paper, although I am looking for sources that seem to operate outside of a medical model. You can use poetry, art, music, other forms of healing, structural change… anything meaningful sources that you find can be included in this aspect of the paper.
Conclusion
Conclude with a discussion of the importance of a sociological perspective when understanding mental health and illness. I urge you to reflect upon the topics and issues we have discussed in class and use them to frame your discussion of sociology. Be sure that you stay grounded in a sociological discussion and that you don’t “psychologize” or individualize in your conclusion. Rather you should reflect upon how a sociological perspective broadens our understanding of mental health and illness and your chosen topic.
References
Include a reference page using APA or MLA formatting
Also, for each of your academic, sociological references, please explain how you know the article is sociological – what is the author(s) affiliated university and department, for example (remember, this means that at least one author must have a background in sociology).
Paper Formatting
Please be sure that your paper is free from all grammatical, spelling and structural errors. You may lose points if your paper does not flow, or is difficult to read due to such errors. I urge you to contact the Writing Center on campus if you think you may have difficulties in this area. If you are able to prepare your paper early, they can offer proofreading for you.
One inch margins
12 point font
Double spaced
Left Centered
Arial or Times New Roman font only
Number the pages
Be sure that all sources are cited correctly using formatting of your choice (be consistent throughout your paper)
7-10 pages (please number your pages)
Be careful of plagiarizing and ANY use of AI will result in a grade of 0
Your topic can be about any aspect of mental health and illness but bear in mind that you will need to discuss the issue sociologically. The trick with this paper is to think about how sociologists might address some of these topics – be careful that you do not wander into the psychological literature!
Paper Format: APA
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