PSY388: Identify Relevant News Articles that Portray a Mental Health Issue, with Which you Must Critically Engage: Psychology: Abnormal Behaviour Assignment, MU, Singapore

Task:

• Identify relevant news articles that portray a mental health issue, with which you must critically engage. You can select from one of the news articles provided on LMS, or you may select one that you locate yourself. If you locate one yourself, you must provide a copy of it with your assignment submission.
• Read relevant literature on the mental health topic (e.g., a particular disorder) to ensure you have a good understanding of relevant (i) biological, (ii) psychological, (iii) social, and (iv) ethical considerations pertaining to this topic. When reading this literature, consider how effectively (or ineffectively) the article covers the domains relevant to a biopsychosocial perspective, and the principles relevant to the APS Code of Ethics.
• Write a 1000 word Review and Critique that critiques the news article, drawing on relevant literature to back up your arguments.
• At the end of the critique (or can be embedded at the end of sections/paragraphs depending on how you structure it), in addition to the 1000 word review/critique, provide a minimum of 4 dot-points of suggested changes to the news article based on your review, in order to improve the use of evidence and the ethical portrayal of mental health issues. Note that the critique should be mindful of the purpose of a news article i.e., to communicate with a lay audience, and is therefore not meant to be a scholarly article. Try to think about what overall message the news article is creating about the mental health issue it covers, and what are some of the ways that this overall message could be improved by changes within the article.