Wellness and Mental Health
In this activity, you will analyze your topic (mental health in wellness) using the general education lens you chose in the previous module in order to determine how the topic has affected institutions.
During your analysis, you will also describe an element related to your topic that could benefit from change and assess the benefits and challenges associated with addressing wellness. Finally, you will analyze how modern social practices have been impacted by wellness.
You are not required to address each item below the rubric criteria, but you may use them to better understand the criteria and guide your thinking and writing.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Wellness and Mental Health
- Integrate reliable evidence from varied sources throughout your paper to support your analysis.
- It is important to draw from a more diverse pool of perspectives from varied sources to support the analysis. This is different from the Citations and Attributions rubric criterion.
- Reliable evidence from varied sources should be interwoven throughout the paper itself, while citing and attributing sources will be represented as APA in-text citations and a reference list at the end of your work.
- You will be evaluated on both criteria.
- Analyze your chosen issue or event through one of the general education interdisciplinary lenses to determine its impact on various institutions.
- Apply the perspective of the general education lens you chose in the previous module to your topic. Then determine how the topic might affect institutions such as politics, community, family, economy, education, or market-driven organizations.
- Describe at least one specific element that could benefit from change within your topic.
Wellness and Mental Health
Consider how your topic has been discussed and represented. What approaches could be more constructive? What could be done differently to encourage, promote, or transform your topic? This response is not simply your opinion but should be supported by reliable evidence.
- Assess the benefit and challenges of addressing issues in wellness.
- What may be the positive impact of critically analyzing wellness? Conversely, what are the more difficult aspects of addressing wellness? This part refers to wellness overall and is not specifically about your project topic.
- Analyze how social practices have been shaped by issues and events in wellness in modern culture.
- How have contemporary social practices been influenced by wellness? For example, consider practices such as communication, cultural expression, governance, or caregiving.
- Assess at least two significant factors that could impact your topic, such as biases, beliefs, assumptions, and/or values.
Wellness and Mental Health
- Determine factors that might influence society’s engagement with your topic. What might impact their perceptions of the topic or how they talk about it?
- Explain how at least one potential obstacle could interfere with the population’s engagement with your topic.
- In the previous activity, you identified elements of your topic that present opportunities for change. Now, determine a possible obstacle that could interfere with this constructive engagement.
- Recommend strategies for using this kind of critical analysis for meeting your personal and professional goals.
- Consider the skills you have developed in the process of doing critical analysis as strategies for understanding your goals. How might those skills be used to address issues in wellness? How could they be used to address the day-to-day responsibilities or questions faced by yourself as well as practitioners in your field or discipline? Use APA referencing style.