Last week's discussion opened with class attempts to identify and define characteristics of mental health and illness. This week's readings include Dr. Milkie's grant proposal to study social factors in children's mental health and several articles/book chapters about the field in general.
I am reminded of the overwhelm I felt my first week in my advanced-level Spanish courses some years ago. I could pretty much identify the words being used, but I couldn't process the ideas and make the words meaningful as quickly as they were coming at me. I had that sensation again last weekend, as I attempted to plow through the readings-especially since I was simultaneously attempting to keep my niece and nephews alive in a house that is no longer little kid-friendly.
Rather than creating one macro-post for all the readings. . .138 pages of intense "sociologese", I'm going to break my thoughts into separate posts for each reading. I may change this format as the semester goes on, but this will do for now.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment