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Week 2 Application Assignment: Biological bases of Psychopathology

Make sure to fully respond to the question and to use the rubric to guide your writing (the rubric is used to determine your grade). Your assignments should be written in accordance with APA 6th edition guidelines and contain two professional sources (your text-book may count as one of your resources). Although there is no minimum page length requirement for this assignment, you will likely write a minimum of four pages to fully address all of the prompts.

Directions:

Research data for disparities in mental health and mental disorders. Two data bases are provided, one governmental and one from a non-profit organization. 

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Mental Health

Mental health Disparities: Diverse Populations

Create a report that describes your interpretation based on the supplemental readings on disparities in the US by a) race/ethnicity, b) age group, and c) gender identity.

· This assignment is worth 100 points.

· All assignments should be written in APA format. Please include a title page, the body of your paper, and a reference page. All papers should include an introduction and conclusion.

· Submit the assignment to both Blackboard by 11:59 CST on Day 7 of the week.

Week Two Assignment Rubric

Criteria

Exemplary

Well Developed

In Development

Needs development

70 points

Research data for disparities in mental health and mental disorders. Create a report that describes your interpretation based on the supplemental readings on disparities by a) race/ethnicity, b) age group, and c) gender identity. Two data bases are provided, one governmental and one from a non-profit organization. 

  Racial and Ethnic Differences in Mental Health

Mental health Disparities: Diverse Populations

60-70 points

Report is accurately and thoroughly prepared and presented. Provides clear and complete information about all three disparities. At least two sources are used, cited, and referenced.

40-59 points

Report is partially accurate.

Provides information about all three factors with at least two additional sources cited and referenced.

25-39 points

Report is partially accurate with at least two of the areas addressed. At least one source cited and referenced but may contain errors.

0-24 points

Question is not thoroughly addressed, is inaccurate, or more than one of the three required areas are missing. 0-1 source used but citation and reference may contain errors.

15 points Structure: Please include a title page, the body of your paper that adequately addresses the three disparities and a reference page. All papers should include an introduction and conclusion.

13-15 points

The paper includes all five sections, well-written with clear communication of meaning. Both questions are adequately addressed.

10-12 points

The paper includes all five sections, is well-written, but lacks some clarity of meaning. Both sections are included in the paper and at least one is adequately addressed.

7-9 points

The paper includes at least four of the required sections. Writing is somewhat organized some lack of clarity of meaning is present. Both questions are included but are incompletely addressed

0-6 points

The paper includes three or less of the required sections. The writing is unclear in meaning and one question is incompletely addressed.

10 points.

Writing Mechanics and APA Grammar and Format:

Papers are written using APA 6th edition formatting and writing skills.

9-10 points

No more than three grammatical, spelling, punctuation, and/or APA errors. Clarity of paper was not influenced by the errors. 

7-8 points

More than three grammatical, spelling, punctuation, or APA errors. Clarity of paper was not strongly influenced by the errors. 

4-6 points

More than three grammatical, spelling, punctuation, or APA errors that had a negative influence on the clarity of the paper. 

0-3 points

More than three grammatical, spelling, punctuation, or APA errors that had a strong negative influence on the clarity of the paper.

5 points

Sources:

Two additional professional sources are used to support points in Question 1. The Question 2 resource is used in that question.

5 points

Question 1 - Two or more professional sources (e.g., journal article, textbook) used to thoroughly support ideas, correctly cited and documented in the references list. Question 2 is correctly cited and referenced.

4 points

Two professional sources were used to adequately support ideas and was documented in the reference list as well as Question 2 resource. Citations and references contained some errors.

3 points

One or two sources, not professional sources, were used to support Question 1ideas and documented in the reference list. Question 2 cited and referenced. Errors in citation and/or referencing.

0-2 points

Question 1 used zero or one source. Ideas were insufficiently supported. Question 2 citation and reference incomplete or absent.

Total: 100 points

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