Makaylia Shaw
04/07/2020
Annotated Bibliography
Research Topic: Mental illness is common among the adolescents more than any other group. The age is presumed to encompass several activities and experiences both emotional, physical and even spiritually. Therefore, what are the top research priorities for children’s mental health?
Cheung, K., Taillieu, T., Turner, S., Fortier, J., Sareen, J., MacMillan, H. L., ... & Afifi, T. O. (2017). “Relationship and community factors related to better mental health following child maltreatment among adolescents” .Child abuse & neglect, 70, 377-387. Retrieved fromhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28750346/
Critique
The paper talks about the connection that exists between better mental health and community factors. It points out those positive experiences among the adolescents leads to good mental health. As well, support from friends and family assists in bettering the mental health.
Accordingly, there exists connection between this study and children’s mental health. The top priority in this study was to identify the factors that determines the situation of the mental health in adolescents. This is the actual focus of the research question on the top priorities of research on mental health. The study presents maltreatment as one of the issue to be given attention when analyzing the mental health of the adolescents which is in line with the research question. The answer to the research question is revealed through this study as efficacy in intervention aimed at youths who are having history of mistreatment following its findings.
Sadeh, N., Bounoua, N., & Javdani, S. (2019). Psychopathic traits, pubertal timing, & mental health functioning in justice-involved adolescents. Personality and Individual Differences, 145, 52-57. Retrieved fromhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886919301771
Critique
The paper acknowledges the deficiency of study about psychopathic behavior as well as adolescents timing. It identifies social misfit among the adolescents as one of the key diversion in character among the youths. The psychopathic traits have connections with the changes in the adolescents’ behavior.
In view of that, the focus of this study is in line with the research question. The research question tends to enquire about the priorities of studies in regard to mental health of the adolescents. The connection comes in as the study is aimed at understanding the relationship between the psychopathic characters among the youths with the onset of puberty. Mental health greatly influences the behaviors of an adolescent and therefore understanding the connection between changes in behavior and puberty is in line with the research question. The changes in behaviors and mental health depend on the situation such that bad experience leads to poor characters. From the study, the youths are at a great risk of poor mental health following that most of the changes that they experience are associated with negative effects.
Moksnes, U. K., & Reidunsdatter, R. J. (2019).Self-esteem and mental health in adolescents–level and stability during a school year. Norsk Epidemiologi, 28(1-2). Retrieved fromhttps://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/norepid/article/view/3052
Critique
The distinction in stability, level, self-esteem as well as predictive role between males and females is the primary concern of this research. It reports that gender has an impact on the mental health and self-esteem among the adolescents. It follows that the universal strategies set for better mental health should consider gender.
From the research question, the top priority of research in the field of mental health in this case is on gender. The connection between this study and the research question is therefore based on gender differences. The paper claims that girls get more depressed and suffer anxiety more than a man which proves the difference that exists between them. The link between the research question and the study comes in in the essence that the mental health is a key concern for this study. It suggests the answer to the research question as gender being a priority and factor to be considered in the study of mental health among the adolescents.
Cheung, K., Taillieu, T., Turner, S., Fortier, J., Sareen, J., MacMillan, H. L., ... & Afifi, T. O. (2018). “Individual-level factors related to better mental health outcomes following child maltreatment among adolescents”.Child abuse & neglect, 79, 192-202. Retrieved fromhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/29477612/
Critique
This study is focused on the personal based factors that determine the mental health among the adolescents as a result of mistreatment. Particularly, it identifies the connection between the personal-based factors and the situation of mental health considering previous experience of mistreatment and without the experience of the previous mistreatment.
There is a close connection between the study and the research question on the top priorities of research on mental health. The study considers individual level factors to be having influence on the status of mental health. Accordingly, the study aimed at computing the prevalence of mental health indicators due to child mistreatment. The objective is linked to the research question in the essence that poor behavior is associated with mistreatment. Another object is to approximate the level of prevalence of mental health status in regard to the type of mistreatment. This study responds to the research question as it identifies the prevalence of various health statuses due to level of mistreatment.
Stikkelbroek, Y., Bodden, D. H., Reitz, E., Vollebergh, W. A., & van Baar, A. L. (2016). “Mental health of adolescents before and after the death of a parent or sibling”.European child & adolescent psychiatry, 25(1), 49-59. Retrieved fromhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4698293/
Critique
This study purposes to explain the situation or status of mental health of the adolescents after they lose a family member; a sibling or a parent. It is natural that when a person loses a family member, there might be changes in the mental health following the pain that comes with it. The uncertainty that is given priority as stated by the research question is whether the health issues of family are determined by the initial issues of the mental health.
The study realizes that adolescents who have lost a family member have associated mental problems in a more intense way as compared to those with the family with the two years of death. The mental issues are the key concern of the research question as it is the top priority of the study in line with mental health. There is a connection between the research question and the study in the essence that it outlines the associated issues due to lose of a family which is an effect on the mental health status. Specifically, the bereaving adolescents normally have issues with internalizing more so during the initial days of the lose which makes them to be different from normal adolescents who have their mental health targeted at being positive. The effect of death on the mental health is mostly negative which therefore responds to the need of the research question.