Creating a Presentation for Developmental Issues in Childhood and Adolescent
Choose a topic that you think the most important/ interesting to be studied/ discussed in
childhood and adolescence (younger than 18 years old). Find 3-4 peer-reviewed articles of the
topic you chose in the PsycInfo, PsycARTICLES and/or Psychological and Behavioral Sciences
Collection databases*. These articles need to be peer-reviewed articles (they cannot be from the
website, Psychology Today, or a book review). If you have minimum 3 peer-reviewed articles,
you may use additional resources (do not have to be a peer-review article) if you like. Then
provide comprehensive discussions on following questions:
1) Choose a topic that you think the most important/ interesting to be studied/ discussed in
childhood and adolescence. Discuss the reasons why you choose the topic (provide
introductions for the presentation).
2) Summarize articles with your own words (e.g., overview of the article, the methods,
participants/subjects information, and the results of the study). Discuss some key findings
from each article.
3) Analyze the topic with appropriate developmental theories (e.g., Erikson, Piaget,
Lifespan theory, behavioral theory, etc.) from the text. Employing the theory you chose,
explain why the topic you chose affects development of people in the age group you
selected.
4) Develop an action plan (i.e., prevention/ intervention programs/ ideas for the topic you
chose). Based on information you obtained from 3-4 peer-reviewed articles AND the text
that are used for this class, design an action plan of how we can prevent or intervene with
the topic you chose for a specific individual or group (or promote benefits if your topic
focus on the positive outcomes). Develop specific plans which you could currently carry
out, in your own life, given the resources you currently have. Or if applicable, discuss
how the society can support your plans.
5) Describe the possible consequences of your plan. Describe expected results of your study.
Include following information:
a. What you realistically expect the consequences, both short-and long-term, of your
action to be.
b. What would be the greatest strengths of your plan?
c. What would be the limitations? (There is no perfect study/ plan).
6) Include at least three references in the end.
Prepare a 8 to 10 Microsoft PowerPoint slides (more slides are ok!). Please cite resources
you used in the PowerPoint accordingly. Please save your presentation as Microsoft PowerPoint
(.ppt or pptx) and upload your PowerPoint file in the Canvas (the same way you do for other
writing assignment).
Add speaker’s note and reference/ citations in each slide.