Changing Childhoods

Assignment: Simplified Systematic Review

TOPIC- MENTAL HEALTH and SELF-HARMA

You will produce a simplified systematic review on an emerging issue in childhood and early years studies.

SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
Introduction to and rationale for your topic
Clear criteria for the inclusion/exclusion of documents
Analysis of the key concepts/ideas within your documents
Clear identification of the discourses of ‘childhood/youth' evident in the documents (in the Table)
Table of documents (in your appendix)

Presentation, Referencing, Academic writing

Short systematic review

• Comes from Medical Sciences -
(Nursing/Epidemiology), and is related to the need for an evidence base in medical practice
• A method for evaluating existing research/knowledge
• Systematic approach/Systematic search/Systematicanalysis
• Approach - there is an overall strategy for the review
• Search - there is a clear strategy for the inclusion/exclusion of literature that is to be reviewed
• Analysis - there is a critical analysis of the key ideas/theories/findings of the literature