Frequently Asked Research
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What questions do you
have about research?
Whether you have questions about
incorporating research into your work or interpreting research
findings, we're interested in helping! Please send questions
to
Dr. Anne DePrince We
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| Are there places online
where I can find measures to use in research for my agency?
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The following please find links to sites that may help you
access established measures. |
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- Searchable Inventory of
Instruments Assessing Violent Behavior and Related
Constructs in Children and Adolescents (The Violence
Institute of New Jersey at UMDNJ):
http://vinst.umdnj.edu/VAID/browse.asp
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| Are there practice guidelines
for treating trauma-related distress that are based on research? |
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Yes!
Several professional organizations have created best practice
guidelines for treating trauma-related distress based on empirical
evidence. For example, the International Society for Traumatic
Stress Studies has published a book on empirically supported
treatments for PTSD. The
International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation has practice
guidelines for treating dissociative disorders available on their
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If agencies collect information
about clients (e.g., at intake), can a researcher help analyze those
data?
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Generally speaking, when a researcher collaborates with you to look
at existing information about your clients (e.g., to help
characterize your clients to funders or to test hypotheses about
relationships among factors in the data you've collected), all data
should be de-identified so that the researcher does not have access
to identifying information about any individual client. In our
research group, we submit our plans to assist agencies with data
analyses to the University of Denver Institutional Review Board (the
research ethics oversight committee) for an
expedited review. |
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Our agency is about to do our
first research project. Where can we find information about
the conditions under which we must submit our plans to an
Institutional Review Board (i.e., ethics oversight committee)?
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Federal regulations for human research are available on the
web.
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If we're interested in collaborating
with the TSS Group (or any other research group), does the agency
have to go through our own ethics review process? |
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Usually,
research institutions have internal Institutional Review Boards who
do the ethics oversight for research protocols. When the TSS
Group collaborates with agencies, we are generally able to submit
the required IRB protocols through DU's IRB. Agencies who are
not working with a research institution can work with a private IRB.
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