User:Mbarton7/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.)Child and adolescent psychiatry

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose to evaluate this article because this is something that I am interested in. I am wanting to go into pediatric psychiatry and this article was intriguing to me because it gave me more information about something that I plan on doing the rest of my life.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

The lead section of the article did a great job at describing what child and adolescent psychiatry is while also providing examples of treatment options. The lead section in this article is important because it allows readers who are not familiar with child and adolescent psychiatry to obtain enough information to have an idea about what they are about to read. The content of the article was good, but it focused too much on the history at the beginning. Overall, the tone of the article was neutral, and there did not seem to be any bias information. The sources and resources in the article did a good job at backing up the information that was provided. There were also links throughout the article that were different mental illnesses that children and adolescents could be diagnosed with that provided detailed information on each one of the illnesses. The sources that were used seemed to be legitimate. I clicked on the links to a few of them and they took me to actual published psychology journals. In the article, it did not include any images or media. Overall, the article did not have any grammatical issues that I noticed. The author of the article seem to have had a good grasp on this topic and provided great information. One improvement for this article would be to focus less on the history and include more information in the clinical section of the article. Also, in some sections of the article, more information could be added to support each section better.