User:Mldavis318/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1
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 * Article title
 * Exposure Therapy


 * Article Evaluation
 * Overall, the article on Exposure Therapy has "good bones" so to speak and doesn't need much improvement in terms of citations. It needs improvement in various content areas, including how exposure therapy works for anxiety disorders specifically, how an exposure hierarchy works and the benefits of it, as well as, potentially including virtual exposure therapy under the techniques section. In addition to adding more information to the article, the article also needs more sources that are WP:MEDRS. Adding pictures that would depict exposure therapy would especially be helpful, as well as, an image of an example exposure hierarchy so the reader could better understand and conceptualize how the therapy works. The lead could also use more information to give readers a better idea of what the article is about.


 * Sources

Option 2
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 * Article title
 * Stranger Anxiety


 * Article Evaluation
 * Overall this article has generally good bones, but needs improvement in several areas. First, this article is focused on stranger anxiety in children. Therefore, the article should either be renamed to "Stranger Anxiety in Children", or should be left as is and include information about stranger anxiety in adolescents, young adults, and adults as well. Additionally, discussing the psychological causes of anxiety would serve to better inform the reader about why someone would experience it. There is information on how to deal with stranger anxiety but no discussion of treatment or therapy to help the individuals experiencing it. Adding this information would benefit readers who may have a child or know someone with stranger anxiety. The article also slightly discusses the affect stranger anxiety has on children's development. Currently, the information is very broad and not very informative. Adding more detail about the effects on the child's development would help readers to better understand how it can have an effect on children, and why it should be treated if possible. Discussing more signs of stranger anxiety in children would also be helpful to parents in identifying if their child is experiencing stranger anxiety or not. Additionally, adding symptoms for adults and adolescents experiencing stranger anxiety would help those who aren't children with being able to figure out if this is something they may have.


 * Sources

Option 3
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 * Article title
 * Telephone Phobia


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article overall needs a lot of work. The general outline is decent, but the article is missing information in several content areas. Adding more content would better help the reader to understand the phobia. Specifically, there needs to be more information about specific treatment options, as well as, more information about the psychological background (why it is developed, how it is developed, etc). Discussing more symptoms that are related to telephone phobia would also be helpful, for many are just symptoms that are shared with anxiety. This article only has 10 citations, so finding more sources to not only bolster the article but the references as well, would be beneficial. Additionally, adding better photos to help the reader connect and understand the material would be helpful.


 * Sources

Option 4
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 * Article title
 * Compulsive Behavior


 * Article Evaluation
 * Overall this article needs improvement, specifically in adding more information to content areas. The article talks about several kinds of compulsion behaviors that are commonly thought of (shopping, hoarding, eating,etc), however, it doesn't talk about other compulsive behaviors such as hyper responsibility, reassurance, harming, or ordering and perfectionism. Adding these subtopics within the content area would allow individuals access to more information regarding compulsive behaviors besides the behaviors that are already commonly thought of. Additionally, adding information about ways to deal with or treat compulsive behaviors would give individuals who are experiencing them a place to start. Additionally, adding more psychological background information (why it can be developed, how it is developed psychologically, etc) discussing compulsive behavior would give readers the information to better understand the behavior. Finally, adding more images that depict and or explain compulsive behavior would benefit the reader and help them to better understand the behavior.


 * Sources

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 * Article title
 * Article Evaluation
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