MaScott14

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Hi MaScott14, just leaving a quick message for class. Have a great weekend! Mhxelamh (talk) 18:18, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Greetings

Hello MaScott14! I'm just dropping in to say hi. I'm excited to be taking Global Youth Studies with you!

Unbroken14 (talk) 21:24, 4 September 2014 (UTC)Unbroken14

You're on your way!

Hi MaScott14. Congrats on getting your first assignment done. Can you please write a few sentences (no more than three) about what kinds of topics you'd like to research? This will help us give you feedback about where to look for articles in WP and resources at the library. Glad you're along for the ride! P.S. Can you create a link to our course page? I did it on my user page and also as a sample on User:Unbroken14's page. Thanks! Happy Weekend. Prof.Vandegrift (talk) 22:36, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

Hi!

Your area of interest sounds super cool. Just doing a Google search I found several article on PTSD right here in the U.S. Apparently Oakland, CA is having to treat their youth due to high levels of community violence. Puts in perspective what sorts of living conditions and violence is needed to traumatize someone, even those who are not clearly in war zones. Good luck with your project; I can't wait to read more! Bulldog53420 (talk) 16:50, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Hey MaScott14

I am also very interested how experiences like ptsd and other situations shape youth and how these youth can be protected. I am eager to read your work as it progresses and see which direction you take. Djansen15 (talk) 23:44, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Hey!

This sounds like a very interesting topic as I think this "protecting" of youth is becoming more prevalent in our society. Good luck on the project, I look forward to reading more about it in the future! Marrosann (talk) 18:06, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Topic

Hey MaScott14, your overall general topic that you want to write about seems very fascinating. I see that you do have some specific topics that could be made into wiki pages and can't wait to see which one you pick to expand the idea of protection for youth. Thefiveofus (talk) 03:01, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

More Research Specifics

The topic that I have focused in on is post-traumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents, a topic where there is no information on the Wikipedia page. Talking about it in class, I wanted to be careful about making it not into a psychology-based contribution, but one that has a sociology spin on it. Therefore, I have to be careful to make sure that I have to find articles that do not talk about the science behind PTSD, but the sociology that is associated with it. At first I wasn’t sure that there was even sources about PTSD that didn’t talk about the neurological ideas associated with it, but after a quick search I was relieved that there was a lot on my topic.

The first thing I did was look on the Cowles library website and searched my topic in their search bar, and I was very encouraged. There were articles titled “Children and adolescents treated for post-traumatic stress disorder at the Free State Psychiatric Complex” and “Developmentally adapted cognitive processing therapy for adolescents and young adults with PTSD symptoms after physical and sexual abuse: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial” and “Longitudinal Relationships between Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and Sleep Problems in Adolescent Survivors following the Wenchuan Earthquake in China”. All of these came from academic journals that are available in Cowles Library so that was encouraging.

I then turned to the internet for further research, and was also pleasantly surprised on the amount of research that has already been done on this topic. Just a simple google search of “post traumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents” and tons of articles are given. I know that I should be careful with deciding what source is reliable and credible, especially because I will be using these topics on the Wikipedia page.

MaScott14 (talk) 14:33, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Sources That I Plan on Using

Bayer, Chrisophe Pierre, Fionna Klasen, and Hubertus Adam. "Association Of Trauma And PTSD Symptoms With Openness To Reconciliation And Feelings Of Revenge Among Former Ugandan And Congolese Child Soldiers." JAMA: Journal Of The American Medical Association 298.5 (2007): 555-559. Academic Search Complete. Web. 3 Oct. 2014

Bishop, Melanie, et al. "An Analysis Of Early Developmental Trauma In Social Anxiety Disorder And Posttraumatic Stress Disorder." Annals Of General Psychiatry 13.1 (2014): 1-24. Academic Search Complete. Web. 12 Oct. 2014.

Ertl, Verena, et al. "The Challenge Of Living On: Psychopathology And Its Mediating Influence On The Readjustment Of Former Child Soldiers." Plos ONE 9.7 (2014): 1-11. Academic Search Complete. Web. 3 Oct. 2014.

Klasen, Fionna, et al. "Posttraumatic Resilience In Former Ugandan Child Soldiers." Child Development 81.4 (2010): 1096-1113. Academic Search Complete. Web. 3 Oct. 2014.

Kousha, Maryam, and Shervin Mehdizadeh Tehrani. "Normative Life Events And PTSD In Children: How Easy Stress Can Affect Children's Brain." Acta Medica Iranica 51.1 (2013): 47-51. Academic Search Complete. Web. 12 Oct. 2014.

Loeb, Joanne, et al. "The Child Behavior Checklist PTSD Scale: Screening For PTSD In Young Children With High Exposure To Trauma." Journal Of Traumatic Stress 24.4 (2011): 430-434. Academic Search Complete. Web. 12 Oct. 2014.

Weierstall, Roland, et al. "When Combat Prevents PTSD Symptoms-Results From A Survey With Former Child Soldiers In Northern Uganda." BMC Psychiatry 12.1 (2012): 41-48. Academic Search Complete. Web. 3 Oct. 2014.

MaScott14 (talk) 21:09, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

A cupcake for you!

You're on your way! You posted a strong proposal and sources. You also received valuable feedback and suggestions for further sources to check out on the Talk:Posttraumatic stress disorder page. Please incorporate those sources into your plans. I urge you to located and download the articles from your proposal and to find the articles suggested by RH right away so you can work on the draft. Nice work! Prof.Vandegrift (talk) 15:55, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

Sandbox feedback

I'm not sure how well the image that the page has right now works. Because it was painted by a US Marine, it has a pretty narrow conception of age and geography. Have you thought about images that you could replace it with?

There are some words in the article that probably don't need a hyperlink. Hyperlinks should be a way for users to find more information on things they may not know about. Words like death and diagnosis, warfare and serious injury, may not need links. However, sexual assault and hyperarousal are links I would recommend keeping. This is also a simple way to clean up the entire page-- going through and checking what's linked.

I'm guessing you're looking at the youth section of the article? If you want additional feedback on other parts of your sandbox, just leave me a message on my talk page and I can give you some more feedback. It's just a very long article for me to review if I'm unsure what parts you've looked at.

Could you include a definition of youth in the youth section, just to provide readers with a general knowledge of what age group you're referencing?

I appriciate that you mention the developed AND developing world in the youth section. Something you might want to look into is if child soldiers are a social phenomena only occurring in Africa, or if there are other places in the world this happens. If there are, it could make the child soldiers in Africa hyperlink problematic by implying that there is only one part of the world this happens in.

If you can find research on child soldiers outside of Africa (maybe even digging into the past a bit instead of just the recent years), I think it would help delineate systemic bias.

What kind of research have you been able to find--as far as case studies-- for youth and natural disasters? I think adding a case or two would help create a parallel structure between this section and the child solider section.

AbbeyMaynard (talk) 00:05, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

Posttraumatic stress disorder

Hi MaScott14. Welcome to Wikipedia. I am an online ambassador for your Global Youth Studies course.

I see that you've been working on a draft for the Posttraumatic stress disorder article. While I agree that the article could use more language about youth, I would generally advise first time Wikipedia editors not to choose this sort of subject for a major edit. Firstly, as a medical topic, the referencing requirements are considerably more stringent. Any edits made to this article need to comply with WP:MEDRS sourcing requirements. It is not enough to source one-off studies, and ideally sources will be systematic reviews published in reputable medical journals. At over 150,000 bytes, the article is also already overly long, so any language not directly relevant to PTSD is likely to be removed. Please note that this particular article is also both controversial and highly visible, garnering thousands of views every day. Neutrality and verifiability are paramount here. gobonobo ^{+ c} 05:32, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Edits

There was some issues associated with the hyperlinks in my article, either they suggested that I add new hyperlinks or get rid of some that did not add any good information to the article. I added some and then deleted some of my information that linking would cover, and then added new that it didn’t cover.

Another edit was just simply grammatical, or a few minor fixes to change the flow or wording of the sentences. There was some style issues that my editors suggested to me, and by completing them it made it a lot clearer and more concise.

There was more information wanted on youth and natural disasters, so I bulked up that article a bit more. By focusing on finding more research on youth and natural disasters, I was able to see a correlation between economic class and PTSD. Finding that correlation really added to my article.

MaScott14 (talk) 17:12, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Why I did this

I wanted to focus more about the social implications that youth and Posttramatic Stress Disorder have, and less about the science behind it. My sources are all of high quality, and I feel that I added some quality changes to the article in a section where it was seriously lacking. MaScott14 (talk) 16:00, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

Hey MaScott14! My name is Dusti, and I responded to Professor's help me request. I see there's a little bit here and there as far as feedback goes, and I wanted to try and help you centralize the discussion for the edits you're wanting to make. It looks like @Rob Hurt:, @Jytdog:, @Doc James:, and @SandyGeorgia: are all pretty involved with the article. I'm intrigued by your edits and I feel that you're not only wanting to obviously complete an assignment, but that you genuinely feel that there's a spot within the article that the information you have should go. That's okay! There's some things that you should be aware of that others have pointed out to you on the talk page, but I'm hoping that by me pinging these individuals that they too can respond here and help you out. We're a collaborative community and if one succeeds we all succeed. If you need any further help, please send me a message on my talk page and I'll do my best to help you out. Warm regards, Dusti^{*Let's talk!*} 18:01, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Classes editing

Hey MaScott14 you are partly being caught up in a larger issue that needs to be dealt with. But there are further issues:

In this edit [1] you added

"the crisis before the crisis—and the profound disruption caused by a disaster like Katrina can send already vulnerable children on a downward spiral."

The refs say:

"—the crisis before the crisis—and the profound disruption caused by a disaster like Katrina can send already vulnerable children on a downward spiral."[2]

Do you see any problem with this? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 18:09, 10 December 2014 (UTC)