Select one of the following articles. Answer the questions outlined in a 3 page paper citing 4-5 resources. Of these resources, at least 3 must be scholarly journals or texts. You may cite up to 2 websites if you choose (but they must be scholarly resources). You are expected to submit a cover page, 3-4 pages of text, and a reference page, all in APA format. You will turn in this paper, and it will be given back to you with revisions.
Explanation
-the first three pages must be addressing this article and these questions-use 4 schoraly citations
1. Gibbs, J. & Huang, L. (2003). Introduction and Overview: A conceptual
framework for the psychological assessment and treatment of minority youth.
Children of Color: Psychological intervention with culturally diverse youth.
Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, pp.1-39.
What are some of the obstacles that low-income minority children/families face today?
What factors in a childs life does the ecological perspective feel that it is important to consider?
Why is it important to look at the role of culture/ethnicity in a child/familys life when assessing and treating the child/family?
Why is it important to look at the role of peer relationships in a childs life when assessing and treating the child?
-second part of the paper(the last 3 pages) is on a second article which these questions-again it must have 4 citations
2. OConnor, S. (2001). Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the children he saved and failed. Houghton Mifflin Company, pp. XIII-XXI, pp. 3-4, pp.67-70, and pp. 116-147
What were some of the benefits and some of the difficulties of the orphan trains?
Discuss a few ways you would have worked to improve the system that the
Childrens Aid Society created if you were in power at that time.
How (if at all) does todays foster care system resemble that of the orphan trains?
What (if any) type of influence do you believe stories written like that of Johnny Morrow had on our current social welfare system for children?
-at the end its supposed to be one paper together 6 pages with refrences





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