I need help thinking of an EPQ title?

I've chosen to do an EPQ based around psychology as I want to study it at university but it is not offered at my college. I originally chose the title " Does the current society have a positive or negative influence on the mental health of teenagers?" but my EPQ teacher told me that this was too broad and that I needed to narrow it down. Does anybody have any ideas?

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Reply 1

Noodlzzz

I think before you have a title you need to choose how and what you are going to study. Once you've done specifics of that title will come a lot easier.*

Reply 2

AlexSaunders98

Original post by Noodlzzz

I think before you have a title you need to choose how and what you are going to study. Once you've done specifics of that title will come a lot easier.*

I've already decided that it's going to be a dissertation and on something to do with mental health.

Reply 3

Noodlzzz

Original post by AlexSaunders98

I've already decided that it's going to be a dissertation and on something to do with mental health.

Yes but that's very broad. What area of mental health?:

What age range? Adults? Kids?
A specific type of mental health such as personality disorders, or better yet a certain diagnosis?
Will this be a literature review or an experiment?
If so what kind of experiment?*

I'm a MSc student in clinical psychology and have done a dissertation, numerous lab reports and a published journal article. The title is often the last thing you do.*

Reply 4

AlexSaunders98

Original post by Noodlzzz

Well it's definitely going to be involving children and adolescents because thats the area I want to focus on in the future. I was thinking of basing it on something like depression or anxiety. I was also thinking gender dysphoria but I'm not entirely sure how that would work.
As for whether it will be a literature review or experiment, I'm not sure yet. I think it will be more than likely a literature review because I don't really know how I would go about conducting an experiment.

Reply 5

everythingice

Also try to think of the sort of time-span, area of study (like UK, USA, etc).

Make sure you justify all your decisions in the production log for lots of marks also! I do the EPQ and that's just something my supervisor keeps bringing up haha.

Reply 6

AlexSaunders98

Original post by everythingice

Yeah, I've considered both of those things.I had an original question but i was told it wasnt specific enough so I'm trying to narrow it down a bit!

Reply 7

everythingice

Original post by AlexSaunders98

Yeah, I've considered both of those things.I had an original question but i was told it wasnt specific enough so I'm trying to narrow it down a bit!

Ah yeah fair enough. :biggrin:

What sort of ideas have you got for narrowing down so far?

Reply 8

AlexSaunders98

Original post by everythingice

Ah yeah fair enough. :biggrin:

What sort of ideas have you got for narrowing down so far?

My original idea was to write about societies impact on the mental health of teenagers but I was thinking of choosing a specific part of society or a certain mental health issue or demographic if you get what i mean

Reply 9

everythingice

Original post by AlexSaunders98

Yeah that sounds like a good plan. :smile:

Just make sure to write about your process of looking into them and such. Demographics are a bti fiddly to find data on but I'm sure you'd be able to do that okay. :biggrin:

Reply 10

username1896979

Original post by AlexSaunders98

HI I originally decided and signed up to do an EPQ at the start of the month however i then decided to drop it. My question was "to what extent does patient suicide affect the mental health of psychiatrists" so you're welcome to use that