ASSIGNMENT

Reflect on your own understanding of mental illness, some of the common misconceptions about mental illness that you have identified in a media portrayal and how such misconceptions lead to stigma and discrimination for people who have poor mental.

What is the issue being addressed? Why does it matter?

Demonstrate little or no understanding of the subject matter.

Demonstrate a limited understanding of the subject matter.

Demonstrate a basic understanding of the subject matter.

Demonstrate a thoughtful understanding of the subject matter.
Demonstrate a conscious and thorough understanding of the subject matter.
Supporting information in the reflection (10%)

Provide examples that support your reflection? These examples can be from e.g, resources (e.g., mood diary), texts (eg., journal articles), course content (e.g., textbook) or other sources as applicable No examples from texts are used and claims made in your own writing are unsupported and irrelevant to the topic at hand.

Use incomplete or vaguely developed examples to only partially support reflection with no connections made between the reflection and support.

Use examples to support most reflections or ideas in your writing with some connections made between those. Use relevant examples to support the reflections or ideas in your writing with some connections made between those.

Use specific and convincing examples to support the reflections or ideas in your writing, making insightful and applicable connections between those.