Blog Post #5

My final chosen topic is going to be adolescent depression. More specifically, my question is going to be “To what depth does the upbringing of a child affect adolescent depression, if any?”. I justified my research because it is going to take multiple discipline perspectives to get a full understanding of this topic. I feel this type of question is very complex because again, there are multiple different perspectives and explanations to this issue. I don’t know as much as I would like to, I have a sister who is 16 and has suffered from depression since she was about 10. For her, it is a combination of environment/upbringing and chemical imbalance and therefore it is hard to tell which affects children worse. I hope to discover ways that children perceive their upbringing and how they adjust to different circumstances because as a first time mom, I would only want my daughter and future children to never feel that their upbringing was traumatic or a reason for trauma. In my research I think that chemistry, history, and psychology are just a few disciplines that I will be using.