Contrasting Maternal and Paternal Postpartum Depression: Is there a difference

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Contrasting Maternal and Paternal Postpartum Depression: Is there a difference? Academic Level : Bachelor Paper details Your 5-7 page literature review paper (worth 30% of your course grade) is to be submitted electronically in Blackboard Learn, and is due by 11:59PM on Sunday, October 20th. A Literature Review tells a “story” about the information you uncover during your electronic database searches. Electronic databases such as PsycINFO, Medline/PubMed, Social Work Abstracts, and SocINDEX (all located within Academic Search Complete) may be very helpful to you as you perform the database searches necessary to complete your review.

As examples, previous students have written literature reviews related to the following research topics:

 Adverse Child Experiences (ACE)-toxic stress and adult depression

 Male sex workers and risk sexual behavior

 Childhood trauma-sexual and adult high-risk sexual behavior

 U.S. Veterans and PTSD treatment interventions

 ACE-unstable housing and adult homelessness

 Foster Care and educational attainment

 ACE-parental incarceration and negative social behaviors (childhood bullying)

 Access to healthcare and mental health diagnoses

 Childhood trauma-physical and adult substance use disorders

Throughout this paper, you will have an opportunity to demonstrate the range of knowledge, skills, and cognitive processes (logic/critical thinking) you have acquired through this course in terms of 2015 EPAS Competency #4

—Engage in practice-informed research and research-informed practice. Remember, research topics are often very broad and that your papers will need to be sufficiently detailed to analyze and summarize the available peer-reviewed literature. In grading your papers, I will also be looking for evidence that you are actively engaged with the primary source material (peer-reviewed articles) from electronic databases. As a rule of thumb, you should have at least two peer-reviewed articles per page of text (see below).

Make sure to emphasize the following in your literature review: o Very brief description of the population(s) affected or of interest (Who are the people within your population of interest? How many? Risk factors? etc.) (Maximum 1 page) o Very brief historical, biological, psychological, cultural, political, and social influences on the population/research topic (Maximum 1 page) o Detailed descriptions and definitions of key variables (at least address those in your research question) and how and with whom these variables have been studied in the past (STUDY DESIGN, METHODS, SAMPLES). (Minimum 3 pages) o Detailed descriptions of the evidence of program efficacy, effectiveness, or “best practices” (RESULTS) from research/evaluation studies. Rubric (100 points total) Paper Content (90 points) o Good (75-90 points): • Research topic is well-described using peer-reviewed articles; • Paper provides a strong introduction/background to the selected aspect or dimension of the selected research topic; • Paper provides a thoughtful, critical analysis of information available in the peer-reviewed literature; and • Paper meets minimum length of five (5) pages, not including title and reference pages.