Discussion Question: Your task this week is to find one or more case studies that illustrates a personal example of the social problem you will be investigating for your Applied Research Project. Case studies, used in a clinical sense, are an in depth method for collecting data on one individual in a particular population. For this assignment, you should search the Internet for personal stories related to your topic of interest. This task might require some searching, but the Internet is full of personal stories. (Let me know if you have any trouble finding something.) Feel free to use news stories, personal blogs, or any other site that gives an insider's perspective to your population of interest. You may also use YouTube as a source for case studies. For example, if you choose breastfeeding mothers, you could use this site as a case study: https://www.breastfeeding-problems.com/Breastfeeding-success-stories.html. If you have a personal connection to someone in your population of interest and would like to use their specific experiences as your case study, you are more than welcome to do so. You can choose several shorter case studies or one longer case study for your post.
It's important that you find a case study that is actually a first person narrative, not an analytical article talking about your population of interest.
In your post:
- First, give the link and summarize the case study in a paragraph.
- Second, based on the personal story, think through some of the policy implications for this particular situation. For example, in the case of breastfeeding mothers how could health care policy provide better supports? What about employment policies? (Don't worry about what the specific policies have to say about this point. Just brainstorm based on your case study.)