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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:38, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

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Hey Trey, Since I read your are a Broncos fan, you must be pretty stoked they are going to the Superbowl! You should have announced that during Senate. Would have been great to see all the Viking fans look disappointed in their team all over again. See you in class!--Likecalifornia (talk) 06:06, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

Hello there Calla! I felt rather weird bringing that up at Senate, and didn't want to keep people from returning to their cozy homes. I was rather excited though, yes! I enjoyed getting to at least see the back of your head in class three times a week! --Treyler42 (talk) 00:41, 30 January 2016 (UTC) ==

Project Choice Discussion

Hi everybody! Do we have any potential topics in mind we want to work on? Cdunn808 (talk) 15:47, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Well, if we want a page that needs fixed up, we could do "Equity Theory." That is something we talked about in Organizational Psychology, Connor. It looks like the sources need to be figured out, and the page needs balanced. --Treyler42 (talk) 04:30, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

I also saw that 'Specific Phobia' is a page that many consider needing some work in a similar way. That could be an interesting topic to look into. --Treyler42 (talk) 05:23, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Hey guys, I looked into both the 'Specific Phobia' and 'Equity Theory' articles and I think I am most interested in working on the 'Specific Phobia' page. Theodore.Folk (talk) 23:19, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Specific Phobia is a good one. Minor depressive disorder's one I found too that could really use a touch up. Cdunn808 (talk) 04:00, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Wow! I would say that Minor Depressive Disorder definitely needs some content and such. Should we make those our top two? --Treyler42 (talk) 04:45, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Both of the topics have a lot of various literature about them, as they are common in clinical realms. That should make them both pretty doable as far as working for sources is concerned. I would say that we should have 'Minor Depressive Disorder' as our top and 'Specific Phobia' as our number two. --Treyler42 (talk) 16:25, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

I am a little late to the game, but I totally agree on the top tow choices as Trey proposed. There is barely anything on Minor Depressive Disorder and I think we could easily find more information to add to it. I also see that being super useful to people looking to find more information about it. I personally had looked over the weekend for articles that didn't have much information on them and I found the Kinsey Scale seemed like it could use some work, but I also don't know if there is a lot of content to work with. I am all for the choices Trey proposed. --Likecalifornia (talk) 16:39, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

1. Minor Depressive Disorder and 2. Specific phobia it is! Nice work peeps.Cdunn808 (talk) 18:19, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Dr. Council's comments on your article choices

Minor depressive disorder could be an interesting topic. I did a search on Google Scholar that turned up some articles. It is also known as dysthymic disorder or dysthymia. Before settling on this topic, you should really do a thorough search and make sure there will be enough material. Your other topic, specific phobia, already has a pretty well developed article. I think it would be hard to add to it.

If minor depression doesn't pan out, let me know and I can suggest some other good topics. J.R. Council (talk) 23:11, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

Minor depressive disorder research (Assignment 4)

One issue: The article does not have any current information on minor depressive disorder or recent history on it, such as that it is not listed in the new DSM-5.

Two references: 1. Xavier, F. M., Ferraza, M. P., et al. (2002). `Minor depression' disorder in the oldest-old: Prevalence rate, sleep patterns, memory function and quality of life in elderly people of Italian descent in Southern Brazil. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 17(2), 107-116. 2. Fils, J. M., Penick, E. C., Nickel, E. J., Othmer, E., DeSouza, C., Gabrielli, W. F., & Hunter, E. E. (2010). Minor versus major depression: A comparative clinical study. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 12(1), e1-e7.

Questions/Comments: 1. Even though this disorder is very similar to dysthymia, there is still new information on this disorder and more of a history on it with how it's not included in the DSM-5, so it should be enough to add more substance to this article. 2. Can we use the DSM-IV as a resource for information? Cdunn808 (talk) 22:26, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Problem: One problem I see with the article is that it really doesn’t give much about the history of the topic. There is likely a timeline for the recognition of this particular disorder. We could look at articles that first discuss the disorder or how the definition may have changed in prior DSM.

References: Klier, C. M., Geller, P. A., & Neugebauer, R. (2000). Minor depressive disorder in the context of miscarriage. Journal of affective disorders, 59(1), 13-21. Lee, A. M. (2011). Minor Depressive Disorder. In Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology (pp. 1633-1634). Springer New York.

Questions: When figuring out which sources to use, is it okay if we use articles that refer to specific studies as long as they are peer-reviewed and published? Do you think it would be beneficial to do a History section in the article, to cover how it may have previously been defined or how it became a DSM disorder? --Treyler42 (talk) 06:19, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

Problem:I think just one clear problem with the article is that there is no visual aids. As we continue revamping this article I think it would be helpful, especially for the everyday user, to include pictures. Both for possibly a better understanding of the content and to make it more aesthetically pleasing.

References: -Garlow, S. J., Kinkead, B., Thase, M. E., Judd, L. L., Rush, A. J., Yonkers, K. A., . . . Rapaport, M. H. (2013). Fluoxetine increases suicide ideation less than placebo during treatment of adults with minor depressive disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 47(9), 1199-1203. doi:10.1016/j.jpsychires.2013.05.025

Layous, K., Chancellor, J., Lyubomirsky, S., Lihong, W., & Doraiswamy, P. M. (2011). Delivering Happiness: Translating Positive Psychology Intervention Research for Treating Major and Minor Depressive Disorders. Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine, 17(8), 675-683. doi:10.1089/acm.2011.0139

Questions/Comments: -During our training we were taught that all sections of the articles should be given equal space on the page. I think it may be tough to do that, especially with history. We may have to limit the history so it is not too overbearing. - Secondly how important is it that we provide hyper links to other articles? Theodore.Folk (talk) 03:42, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Problem: A problem I see with this article is that there is the Dysthymia article which in literature is considered Minor Depressive Disorder. I think finding information that is not in that article will be tricky as so we are not just writing that article all over again. Dysthymia was recently renamed Persistent Depressive Disorder in the DSMV 5. With all the name changes, I think finding sources will be tricky.

References: 1. Angst, J., Merikangas, K. (1997). The depressive spectrum: diagnostic classification and course. Journal of Affective Disorders. 45(1-2), 31-40. 2. Craighead, W., Miklowitz, D., Craighead, L. (2013). Psychopathology: History, Diagnosis, and Empirical Foundations, 2nd Edition. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Questions: Can we merge this article when we add our parts to it, into the Dysthymia article for further clarity? I especially wouldn’t want to be a newly diagnosed person trying to find more information, but cannot figure out why all the names exist. Or since this is the older term, and if we can do a history section, we can instead ask to include Minor Depressive Disorder as a term under the Dysthymia article and link it to our article? Likecalifornia (talk) 05:40, 29 February 2016 (UTC)