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Comparison Between Prescription Medicine And Alternative Therapies

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I’m interested in focusing on a topic in the area of mental illness. I would like to focus on the different ways to help treat mental illnesses. I’m looking to discover the most effective ways to help with mental illness. I’m going to compare between prescription medicines and alternative therapies. Therefore I have formed the question “Are alternative therapies and treatments as effective as prescription medications when treating mental illness?” I have chosen this topic and question as I’m interested in mental illness and it is personally relevant, I feel this will make me more interested in learning more about it. My history and experience in this area is that there has been mental illness throughout my family, friends and myself and I feel it would be beneficial to have a larger understanding of the different methods of treating the illnesses and how effective they are. This research will be …show more content…

I also have to make sure the sources are acknowledged correctly. Whilst researching my chosen capability I will look at how to acknowledge and respect different sources of information and I will generally explore the ethics around all the kind of research I will be doing. The skills and understanding I will develop in my chosen capability is how to go about my research in an ethical way. Whilst undertaking my research the people I will work with are teachers, peers and community experts. I will be working with teachers to make sure I’m on the right track and to help throughout the research project with any questions and troubles I may have along the way. I will find and work with community experts to find information and research on different treatments of mental illnesses, I could talk to and interview doctors and/or psychologists or

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