So, if you guys have been following my posts, this has not been an easy research paper for me, since it has been so difficult for me to find articles, books, etc. on my very narrow subject. Therefore, I have widened my pool by making my research question: How does being in the LGBT community effect mental health? This will give me a much wider range in choosing resources for this paper.
So, looking for an article ended up being incredibly fast, which I was definitely not prepared for, haha. I went to the Chapman online library and followed the steps provided in our handout. The keywords I typed were LGBT + mental health and loads of articles popped up! I feel like I could have been able to use so many articles however, the one I chose to use focused on the LGB population (did not include Trans, which is irritating) and how their mental health is different from the heterosexual population due to the stress that minorities, specifically the LGB population, goes through on an every day basis.
I think this article will be immensely helpful for my paper and I am really excited to get deeper into this article and find quotes and examples to use for my paper! Is everyone else doing this well on their search?
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Further knowledge?
So, I have tweaked my topic a bit, since researching has been extremely difficult; usually giving me, literally, no results. I feel like there should be more far more research, articles, and books on LGBT youth and mental health, however, most of what I have found is textbook or how-to for counseling. Suppose it will take a bit more time for research to be done and stats presented to the psychology field since LGBT youth has been become more of an important subject today, compared to previous generations.
However, the lack of info I was able to find, made me tweak my info, which obviously helped me find a 'better' topic for my paper and as a result, will be a lot easier to write my paper. Even if it's not exactly what I wanted to research but, this just means that I can gain further knowledge in this field, and perhaps aid in the topic I actually wanted to research.
However, the lack of info I was able to find, made me tweak my info, which obviously helped me find a 'better' topic for my paper and as a result, will be a lot easier to write my paper. Even if it's not exactly what I wanted to research but, this just means that I can gain further knowledge in this field, and perhaps aid in the topic I actually wanted to research.
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Researching my Research Topic
• What knowledge did you gain about your topic as a result of the research you've
conducted so far?
First off, my topic is SO narrow and it was impossible (literally) to find a reference that had both 'LGBT Youth, Eating Disorders' keywords while searching through the eLibrary that we were required to get at least one source from. However, I have learned more static information that I can rely on, such as statistics, surveys, and experiments. Though, with not being able to work too many references, it is limited information. Luckily, the references have no repeating information.
• What new search strategies did you use to locate your sources?
I attempted to use all of the search engines that were recommend for getting the at least one required reference...and it did not turn out so well. Most articles were either only about eating disorders, or only about the hardships of LGBT youth. Which, although informative, not exactly what I needed. Perhaps I should broaden my topic to simply, relationship between mental disorders and LGBT Youth?
• What specific aspect of your topic do you want to research further?
I actually may want to take a step back from my topic so that I can research more. I don't really want to though, since I feel like addressing mental disorders and/or hardships experienced by LGBT youth is a pretty well known characteristic when talking about the LGBT community in general. Perhaps I could still make it my 'own' by only focusing on psychological disorders that happens due to being bullied, ostracized, etc. However, I feel like this information can be applied to almost all minority groups and probably depends on where the surveys are being taken as well, such as inner cities vs. rural towns.
conducted so far?
First off, my topic is SO narrow and it was impossible (literally) to find a reference that had both 'LGBT Youth, Eating Disorders' keywords while searching through the eLibrary that we were required to get at least one source from. However, I have learned more static information that I can rely on, such as statistics, surveys, and experiments. Though, with not being able to work too many references, it is limited information. Luckily, the references have no repeating information.
• What new search strategies did you use to locate your sources?
I attempted to use all of the search engines that were recommend for getting the at least one required reference...and it did not turn out so well. Most articles were either only about eating disorders, or only about the hardships of LGBT youth. Which, although informative, not exactly what I needed. Perhaps I should broaden my topic to simply, relationship between mental disorders and LGBT Youth?
• What specific aspect of your topic do you want to research further?
I actually may want to take a step back from my topic so that I can research more. I don't really want to though, since I feel like addressing mental disorders and/or hardships experienced by LGBT youth is a pretty well known characteristic when talking about the LGBT community in general. Perhaps I could still make it my 'own' by only focusing on psychological disorders that happens due to being bullied, ostracized, etc. However, I feel like this information can be applied to almost all minority groups and probably depends on where the surveys are being taken as well, such as inner cities vs. rural towns.
Sunday, March 9, 2014
My future...as assumed by me
Welcome! Those in my class and those outside of this class. I hope you all found this blog easily, if not, I wish you better luck next time. Anyway, let's get straight to this blogs point, shall we?
I'll start by explaining a bit about myself: my name is Nicolette and I am a psychology major at Brandman University, as well as College of the Canyons Community college. I graduated high school in 2011, graduated with my A.A. in Social Sciences in 2012, and am planning on finishing with my B.A. in psychology this upcoming Spring, even though I have only been going to Bradman for about a year. In the fall, fingers crossed, I will be going to Cal State Dominquez Hills to start their graduate program in Social Work and I will be focusing on Children, Youth, and Families.
Now, to get realllllly deep into my future prospects. I chose this grad school because it focuses on racism and sexism within the community, while other school were more of a generalized summary of social work. I have always been interested in social justices issues, such as equality and human rights so, this fit me a lot better than a vague social work M.A. In my future, I would like to focus on social justice issues, as well as the field of psychology itself, but the issues that are most important to me are: equality for LGBT community, sex workers, people of color, and learning, as well as helping those with personality and eating disorders. It's definitely hard to just pick ONE topic out of all of these but, I will probably pick sexism or racism to be discussing the rest of the semester since there is so much information, but it's not too terribly vague (I don't think?).
I have taken two research classes, quanitative and qualitative research, and I strongly loathed quanitative since the professor was not that great, and it involved a lot of math. However, I understood qualitative and did very well in it! Therefore, I would like to improve on many things in the ways of research, such as picking reputable articles and especially websites, for seeing if they are valid or not. I would also really like to improve on being more quick to write observations down; this is more of my problem with making things into a habit but, still pertains. Lastly, I would like to become more neutral, at least neutral sounding, when discussing topics that are such a passion for me to learn and discuss about. I have not been critiqued on being bias as of yet, but I know that I am and would like to improve so that the reader will be able to completely soak in the information and choose their own opinion, instead of be swayed by mine.
I'll start by explaining a bit about myself: my name is Nicolette and I am a psychology major at Brandman University, as well as College of the Canyons Community college. I graduated high school in 2011, graduated with my A.A. in Social Sciences in 2012, and am planning on finishing with my B.A. in psychology this upcoming Spring, even though I have only been going to Bradman for about a year. In the fall, fingers crossed, I will be going to Cal State Dominquez Hills to start their graduate program in Social Work and I will be focusing on Children, Youth, and Families.
Now, to get realllllly deep into my future prospects. I chose this grad school because it focuses on racism and sexism within the community, while other school were more of a generalized summary of social work. I have always been interested in social justices issues, such as equality and human rights so, this fit me a lot better than a vague social work M.A. In my future, I would like to focus on social justice issues, as well as the field of psychology itself, but the issues that are most important to me are: equality for LGBT community, sex workers, people of color, and learning, as well as helping those with personality and eating disorders. It's definitely hard to just pick ONE topic out of all of these but, I will probably pick sexism or racism to be discussing the rest of the semester since there is so much information, but it's not too terribly vague (I don't think?).
I have taken two research classes, quanitative and qualitative research, and I strongly loathed quanitative since the professor was not that great, and it involved a lot of math. However, I understood qualitative and did very well in it! Therefore, I would like to improve on many things in the ways of research, such as picking reputable articles and especially websites, for seeing if they are valid or not. I would also really like to improve on being more quick to write observations down; this is more of my problem with making things into a habit but, still pertains. Lastly, I would like to become more neutral, at least neutral sounding, when discussing topics that are such a passion for me to learn and discuss about. I have not been critiqued on being bias as of yet, but I know that I am and would like to improve so that the reader will be able to completely soak in the information and choose their own opinion, instead of be swayed by mine.
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