HCP Proposal Questions

Basics

1. My tentative topic for my HCP is about mental illness, treatment, and therapy. Video and computer games can pose as medical treatment and therapy for mental illness. I chose this topic because I am interested in how video and computer games may affect others who are not playing for their own casual entertainment.
2. My tentative thesis is that: Most results of mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, end in a lifetime treatment or therapy, which requires a lot of resources. Video and computer games may pose as a cheaper and effective solution to mental illnesses.

Scope

1. Place?
2. I'm not sure.
3. The group of people that I am most focusing on are patients with mental illnesses and researchers who have done research and studies on the application of video games as treatment. If there were any additional groups of people to mention, it would probably be the family of those who have mental illnesses. I would possibly mention this group because the family members may play a part in why video and computer games may be a more effective or beneficial solution.
4. There is none. (?)

Perspective and Audience

1. My intended audience would be doctors and families of those who have a family member with mental illnesses. Some assumptions that I would make about the beliefs of my audience is that they would want a treatment or therapy that is possibly better and more beneficial than medicine itself. Some beliefs that I do not plan on discussing with the intended audience is how video or computer game treatments may lead to video or computer game addiction.
2. A counterargument might be how video and computer games may cause more damage to the patient with mental illnesses. For example, with schizophrenia, what if it ends up causing patients to hallucinate or imagine more than they did before as games would add to a person's imagination.

Multimodality

I am not sure what type of images I am planning on including in my HCP. I am also not sure of what I am supposed to answer for the "Multimodality" section. I do not know what type of images I am planning on including. Is the question meant to be taken literally where I am including actual pictures of certain things, like videos games? Or is it more metaphorically where I describe an image through use of context and devices to get my audience to imagine a certain picture?

Questions

I think at this very moment, I am struggling most with finding historical contents that I would use to include into my HCP. I have a clear idea of looking for present day mental illnesses and connecting it to video games, but I do not know where or how to include historical contents of either the problem with treatment and therapy for mental illnesses or how video games came to be considered as treatments or therapy.

Outline
I. Introduction

1. Thesis/Topic Sentence
2. Mental Illnesses and Treatments
3. List several mental Illnesses
4. List some treatments or therapies
5. Explain how effective/good these treatments are

III. History/Origination of Video Games Being Proposed As An Alternative Treatment/Therapy(?)

1. Development of Proposal, Where We Stand Today Using Video Games
2. Show how many people are using video games as treatment compared to before
3. Explain the benefits and effectiveness

V. Conclusion