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The Effects of Poorly Sized & Designed Homes on Children
I want to determine the effects that poorly sized and/or poorly designed homes have on family relationships and in the progression of depression & anxiety in children. I want to define the characteristics of a home that promote healthy interaction between its inhabitants.
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Did your house feel spacious as a child?
Did you suffer from depression/anxiety/social anxiety in your childhood/teens?
If you answered yes to the above question, do you think your childhood home and the respective amount of social interaction you were engaged in influenced your mental health?
If you answered no to the above question do you think your home and its respective amount of social interaction influenced your mental health?
Do you currently have depression or anxiety-type disorders?
Links to Academic Sources
- 1. "Outpatient Treatment of Child and Adolescent Depression in the United States"
- 2. Full Text - "Social Anxiety Disorder and the Risk of Depression" - "The possibility that the identification and intervention of socially anxious children may help reduce their risk for depressive disorders later in life."
- 3. Full Text - "Mild Disorders Shouldn't Be Eliminated From The DSM-V": Clinically Nonsignificant Mental Illness has a high risk of becoming worse.
- 4. "Comparable "risks" at the socioeconomic status extremes: preadolescents' perceptions of parenting." : Factors Affecting Children in Poor & Affluent Families
- 5. "Special problems in borderline adolescents from wealthy families."
- 6. "Privileged but Pressured? A Study of Affluent Youth"
- 7. "Family Therapy and the Alienation Syndrome"
- 8. "Children of the Affluent: Challenges to Well-Being."
- 9. "The Culture of Affluence: psychological costs of material wealth."
- 10. "Teaching to the Brain's Natural Learning Systems" : Children & Isolation
- 11. "The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children" : Depression & Isolation in Children
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- Shevaun O'Connor
- 2nd year student in Engineering, Design & Drafting Technology Program @ Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops B.C.