Problem
Students will select a contemporary social problem (e.g., homelessness, infant mortality, mental illness, poverty, food insecurity, education gap, etc.) to examine in this course. Based on information from scholarly literature (peer- reviewed journal articles, books, monographs) it should should include the following:
Topic: Mental Illness
Cite at least once in every paragraph.
• Definition of the social problem (describe how the problem has defined, measured, etc.)
• Describe the impact of the social problem (e.g., prevalence, incidence, severity, trends).
• Describe the population most impacted by the social problem (e.g., race/ethnicity, age, gender, rural/urban, etc.)
Provide scholarly sources published in the past 10 years (2010 forward).