This week, you identified several causes and effects of your Capstone problem. For this Assignment, you are to explain 3 primary causes and 3 effects from those causes. You will need a thorough discussion of each cause (fully describe the source) and the effects (fully describe who is impacted and how). Following the description of the 3 causes and effects, this narrative should conclude with a final paragraph that briefly summarizes those causes and your reaction to the relationship between these causes and the development of the problem.
To prepare:
Review the Learning Resources related to causes and effects and how this might support your Assignment.
Review the “Causes and Effects of Your Capstone Problem Organizational Matrix” found in the Learning Resources and use this template to help you organize your thoughts and ideas for this Assignment.
Review your research from your literature review related to your specific problem and consider 3 causes and 3 effects that were described about your problem.
Assignment
Write a clearly defined narrative that incorporates the 3 causes and 3 effects and explain how these causes and effects relate to your problem.
Explain your reaction to the findings about the causes and effects of the problem.
Explain whether you believe these causes could have been prevented and how.
Explain which cause or effect you think was most important in leading to the problem and why.
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Depression and Anxiety in Children and Adolescents
LaQuita Cole
Walden University
DPSY-6393-Capstone
Professor Kelly L. Schuller, PH.D.
March 17, 2023
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Depression and Anxiety in Children and Adolescents
The mental health of children and adolescents has received increased attention in recent
times. Developmental psychology perspectives in children present various factors affecting
mental health outcomes in children and the development of psychopathology in the population.
Traditionally, depression and anxiety among other mental health challenges have been
understood as adult problems. However, due to the development of child and adolescent
psychology, mental health conditions in minors are now diagnosable and can be addressed using
targeted developmental-based interventions. The environment in which children are brought up
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and the activities and interactions they are involved in affect their health
and anxiety are especially manifesting in young people and there is an increased need to address
these problems while considering the social and contextual factors that affect children’s mental
health.
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Depression and anxiety rates in young people are especially high and this affects their
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that support
health outcomes.
Children
and adolescents experience different factors affecting their risk of
increased rates and that it
affects health
depression and anxiety including the environment and activities they are involved. Prior to the
COVID-19 pandemic, depression and anxiety symptoms were affecting around 12% of children
and adolescents (Racine et al., 2021). This means more than one in 10 children experienced
depression or anxiety. The rates even increased with COVID-19 especially due to the effects of
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lockdown and social isolation.
These high rates of depression and anxiety adversely affect the
quality of life for children and adolescents.
The capstone project will focus specifically on reducing and preventing depression and
anxiety based on environmental and children activities to reduce the risk of mental illness.
Specifically, the problem to be solved is the social factors increasing the risk of depression and
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What
is the problem
with the
anxiety.
Preliminary
research
shows aspects such as physical activity and social association with
social factors? Be clear and
specific
others affect risk of depression and anxiety (Conley et al., 2020). The proposed research will
identify key social and activity factors that affect depression and anxiety in children and
adolescents. Interventions to address these factors will then be proposed to improve health
outcomes.
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References
Conley, M. I., Hindley, I., Baskin-Sommers, A., Gee, D. G., Casey, B. J., & Rosenberg, M. D.
(2020). The importance of social factors in the association between physical activity and
depression in children. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 14(1), 1-15.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-020-00335-5
Racine, N., McArthur, B. A., Cooke, J. E., Eirich, R., Zhu, J., & Madigan, S. (2021). Global
prevalence of depressive and anxiety symptoms in children and adolescents during
COVID-19: A meta-analysis. JAMA Pediatrics, 175(11), 1142-1150.
https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2021.2482
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