Understanding Asberg And Renk's Contribution To Psychological Trauma
Advancement in Scientific Knowledge:
Understanding Asberg & Renk’s Contribution to Psychological Trauma http://ezproxy.library.capella.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pdh&AN=2012-03827-001&site=ehost-live&scope=site Kari Jellison
PSY7650
Research Methods
Capella University
Instructor: Dr. Loren Faibisch
HALLMARKS OF GOOD RESEARCH
There are many professional fields seeking explanations of events, behaviors, and/or phenomena. One way of obtaining possible answers, solutions, and/or explanations is through the development of theories and research. Research is identified as “a systematic process of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting information –data– in order to …show more content…
169). This required a willingness to explore a myriad of independent variables that could be associated with two potential outcomes, incarceration or college, experienced by female survivors of childhood sexual abuse. To gather data participants provided self-reports through the completion of questionnaires that identified data in areas of demographics, childhood sexual experiences, depression, trauma symptoms, revictimization, substance abuse, criminal justice involvement, ways of coping with childhood sexual abuse, current escape-avoidant coping, substance motives/avoidance coping, social support, family environment, and social reactions to disclosure of childhood sexual abuse (p. …show more content…
Based on their findings, areas of interventions should focus on substance use and levels of perceived social support (p. 173); this evokes support for increased programs in the community to help build natural social supports for victims of sexual abuse and to address substance use. These programs could likely target both prevention, as well as, reactive services in the community. Professionals in the community could identify what programs currently exist, what programming is needed, and identify ways to implement evidence based programming targeting these areas in their community. Professionals may also want to consider, when a client presents with childhood sexual abuse, identifying early on the severity of the sexual abuse, their current level of social support and if substance use is present; this will provide them with the opportunity to connect clients with evidenced based community programs that strengthen social supports, effectively prevent substance use, and/or can clearly intervene on current substance
Understanding Asberg & Renk’s Contribution to Psychological Trauma http://ezproxy.library.capella.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pdh&AN=2012-03827-001&site=ehost-live&scope=site Kari Jellison
PSY7650
Research Methods
Capella University
Instructor: Dr. Loren Faibisch
HALLMARKS OF GOOD RESEARCH
There are many professional fields seeking explanations of events, behaviors, and/or phenomena. One way of obtaining possible answers, solutions, and/or explanations is through the development of theories and research. Research is identified as “a systematic process of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting information –data– in order to …show more content…
169). This required a willingness to explore a myriad of independent variables that could be associated with two potential outcomes, incarceration or college, experienced by female survivors of childhood sexual abuse. To gather data participants provided self-reports through the completion of questionnaires that identified data in areas of demographics, childhood sexual experiences, depression, trauma symptoms, revictimization, substance abuse, criminal justice involvement, ways of coping with childhood sexual abuse, current escape-avoidant coping, substance motives/avoidance coping, social support, family environment, and social reactions to disclosure of childhood sexual abuse (p. …show more content…
Based on their findings, areas of interventions should focus on substance use and levels of perceived social support (p. 173); this evokes support for increased programs in the community to help build natural social supports for victims of sexual abuse and to address substance use. These programs could likely target both prevention, as well as, reactive services in the community. Professionals in the community could identify what programs currently exist, what programming is needed, and identify ways to implement evidence based programming targeting these areas in their community. Professionals may also want to consider, when a client presents with childhood sexual abuse, identifying early on the severity of the sexual abuse, their current level of social support and if substance use is present; this will provide them with the opportunity to connect clients with evidenced based community programs that strengthen social supports, effectively prevent substance use, and/or can clearly intervene on current substance