Write on a topic of your choice (How does childhood exposure to trauma affect the development of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in adolescence and into adulthood?) — anything related to the general area of child or adolescent psychopathology.
NOTE FROM GRADER TO BE MINDFUL OF: “You’ll have to be careful in how you present the research since everyone that has PTSD will have experiences of trauma, so maybe focus on specific factors that put children at risk for developing PTSD from their trauma.”
Choose a topic/research question and find at least 3 published papers that have studied that topic/research question. Summarize the results from those papers. Then, write about the findings from the papers as a whole; what did they tell you about the answer to your research question? Your discussion and conclusions should be based on current research (published within the last 10 years). Cite at least 3 references and include a reference list. Minimum length = 500 words.
To get full credit, make sure to do following:
- Clearly state the topic of the paper toward the beginning of the paper
- Clearly describe the results of 3 empirical studies focused on your chosen topic/research question
- Make sure the studies you choose were published within the last 10 years
- Provide citations in the text and include a reference list at the end of the paper (the reference list does not count toward the minimum length of the paper)
- Include a conclusion section that summarizes what you learned about your chosen topic/research question from the studies you reviewed
- Include a discussion section with limitations of the studies you reviewed and your ideas for future research studies based on the results of the studies you reviewed
- Your citations and references should be in APA Style Links to an external site.