Mental health and poverty (To be phrased better by writer)
Write a 3 to 4 page literature review based on a minimum of eight sources: empirical articles reporting the results of original, primary research, found in peer- reviewed, scholarly journals. The topic should be narrowed by reviewing the literature, so start broadly. It must be approved by me. You may choose qualitative and / or quantitative articles. You may choose a topic within your area of specialization within the social sciences.
Think of your literature review as the introduction to a larger work on the topic. It should:
1) Highlight the importance of the subject.
a. Define or identify the general topic, issue, or area of concern, thus providing an appropriate context for reviewing the literature.
b. Make sure you start with a statement: Take a critical point of view about the literature – some perspective from which you organize your review.
2) Situate your topic within the wider body of scholarly literature . Point out trends in what has been published about the topic; or conflicts in
theory, methodology, evidence, and conclusions; or gaps in research and scholarship; or a single problem or new perspective of immediate interest.
3) Describe and critically assess:
a. The major theoretical approaches to the topic.
b. The main empirical findings of the body of research on your topic. Summarize major contributions in the area, maintaining the focus established in the introduction – in other words, do not list the results of the studies one by one, but group similar results together. Or, demonstrate that findings are not similar, and point out the ways in which they differ, and why .
c. The methods used to study the subject, including an assessment of whether these methods affect the outcomes .
