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Hi there! I hope to be more thorough in my needs this time. I hope you ask me questions, because in the past no helpers asked questions or showed me progress and I had to redo things several times. Please collaborate and help me along with this literature review portion of my paper. GOALS:
1-My goals are to further prove a NEED for children of divorce suffering trauma and how they are not getting the help they need.
2-Narrow and prove the audience young school aged children. Young school age children are most at need as the timing of divorce affects this age group the most coupled with the fact that they are most susceptible to trauma since they are in key developmental years. There is substantial data showing that older children such as adolescents are showing improvement through educational. However, these programs are not accessible due to money or TIME. Parents are strapped for time as they figure out their new lives. I also found some great info how TEXAS comes in dead last when it comes to needs vs support for mental health according to mental health America…maybe find more on this since I am in Texas, it might narrow things for me and make the paper stronger?
3-Determine a solution rooted in evidence. My proposed idea is an educational based program utilizing technology such as an AI assistant in an app or web-based program that motivates kids to engage and learn (kids love tech). also, maybe discuss gamification of the app and how this coupled with connection to the parents can help provide the needed stability. (im reading an amazing book “the new childhood” by Jordan Shapiro. Check it out please. 4-How do kids LEARN? Tech and gamification?
Discuss companion animals and how this app hopes to harness that positive impact in a more accessible way, maybe a section on past electronic pets and how they have helped (a little) robo dogs, Moxie, Nintendo dog, Moxie, Tamagotchi, Tobi Ruxton, that paper clip assistant in microsoft word, Leo the new disneymovie and anything else you can come up with.
5-Maybe start to talk about design and branding that targets kids 5-8 What styles and colors? Text or fonts, etc. Why animals (In the app the ideas is to allow the kids to design their guide.
6-Help me come with a better title, name, catch phrase???
Enclosed are:
1-full thesis template MLA8 8 formatting.
2-my first thesis proposal that was rejected because it hit too much on the solution
3-my recent thesis proposal that is almost accepted, still awaiting feedback
4-1 full thesis example from my program. (we are mostly focused on the lit review right now) but any applicable info that you find, please add, I can build and tweak as the semester progresses.
5-my literature review outline full of amazing sources. Please use this, but don’t focus soooo heavy on divorce in the beginning, shift to the affects on the audience and demonstrate how they are in need. Any additional sources must be peer-reviewed and less than 10 years old. Please consider:
=To better understand what this will need to look like please review the thesis example on the type styln project about using graffiti to help attract more diverse students into visual communications programs.
-I am the only one working on this and it is not a team of researchers. We are not IRB certified and cannot do surveys or interviews and just have to review literature and evidence and base our findings on such.
-I am not a licensed therapist and can’t get too into “therapies.” I can not speak from a practitioner perspective or use to much psychological jargon.
-this paper/exhibition is for a graphic design or VISUAL COMMUNICATION program
-I will not actually be building the app/platform only designing it to a showcase my skills kinda like a prototype.
-I am looking to support an area of need, not solve a major world problem.
-I am looking to connect successful existing programs in different areas in ways not previously connected. Like the example…curriculum that targets black and brown students to be more interested in graphic design by developing a curriculum.
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