With the start of of a new year and a new semester, I'll be starting to really dive into my final project for Honors Mentorship. Right now my essential question is...
What are some specific mental illnesses I can identify and dissect that affect human development and create conflict within patients their and families?
I want to focus on this subject, because I plan on majoring in psychology- or something along those lines- next year at UGA. I have always loved studying humans and how they behave, so it's fitting that I am doing my project on something psychology-related. I can't wait to research metal disorders more deeply, because I want to help people who live them. I think that they simply want to be listened to, and their families need to understand their conditions as well. In order to help these people, I first need to understand their illnesses and how or why they have them.
I think that in addition to the website I'll create for my presentation, I might have a model or drawing for my audience. I could make a model of the brain and what parts of it are affected by specific mental illnesses. I could also do a brochure... and I might make a tri-board detailing my project.
For the real inquiry portion of my final project, I have to create something authentic from my own research or hypothesis, not off of someone else's study on the internet. I think I might make a new theory about how or why mental disorders are "acquired" (or what have you). I wouldn't be able to do any true experiments of my own because of confidentiality of psychological patients, but I might could think of my own hypothesis and use the facts to assume how an experiment would turn out.
Overall, I'm really excited to see how my final project turns out!
Wonderful ideas!
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