Community Counseling -
Community Counseling – 2/06/03 - JKE

1. Finish the matrix of multi modal model – Suicide in Schools, and gays being beat up in a Midwest city.

2. pass out client satisfaction questionnaires

discuss
 

3. Discuss the making of survey data with both qualitative and quantitative data.
what is the difference?

A. Quantitative: Traditional research has been experimental or quasi experimental, using quantitative measures.  Hypothesis testing.

B. Qualitative – anthropological, historical, sociological, educational, and lately psychological.  For further information on Qualitative research go to: http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/index.html
 

4. Issue of Informed consent – Office of Sponsored Programs - Institutional Review Board

at http://orion.neiu.edu/~sprogram/

The following principles and definitions are among the most important for the setting up of a research project with Human Subjects as pertains to survey or Focus Groups.

Clinical investigation: Any experiment that involves a test article and one or more human subjects.
Confidentiality: Pertains to the treatment of information that an individual has disclosed in a relationship of trust and with the expectation that it will not be divulged to others in ways that are inconsistent with the understanding of the original disclosure without permission.
Human subject: A living individual about whom an investigator (professional or student) conducting research obtains:  a) data through intervention or interaction with the individual, or b) identifiable, private information.
Informed consent: The knowing, legally effective consent of any individual or the individual's legally authorized representative.  Such consent can be obtained only under circumstances that provide the prospective subject or representative sufficient opportunity to consider whether or not to participate and that minimize the possibility of coercion or undue influence.
Minimal risk: Probability and magnitude of physical or psychological harm that does not exceed those encountered in ordinary, everyday life or in the performance of routine medical or psychological examinations.
Private Information: either about behavior that occurs in a context in which an individual can reasonably expect that no observation or recording is taking place or information that has been provided for specific purposes by an individual which that individual can reasonably expect will not be made public, (i.e., a medical record.)
Subjects  of Research (the Belmont Report).
http://ohsr.od.nih.gov/mpa/belmont.php3

5. Beginning the project

A. What is it that you are looking for?  Is this a hypothesis driven or a theory building project?  Your Survey data gathering will then include both numeric and textual data.
 

B. What questions do you want to have answered; are you looking for discrete or continuous data?

C. How do you gain quantitative data?  How do you gather qualitative data?
  Field notes, with observation and personal reflections,
  Textual gathering form primary sources.

  BOLDER – Delphi research

6. Take survey and look at process of analyzing data

7. Focus Groups –

A focused group to find our what a certain population wants or thinks about a specific subject.  You will need to first make up some questions regarding what you what to find out, and then you need: Someone to ask the questions, and one or two colleagues to write down the answers.

8. Data analysis  - quantitative analysis – descriptive statistics, and perhaps other predictive tests.   For qualitative data, it must be grouped or coding, to understand it better.  Basically you will be asking questions about the data, making comparisons, or seeing discrepancies, or questions.  Grounded Theory, uses Open coding, Axial coding, and Selective coding.  One can put these into families, to sort, or make use of grouped and spin-offs.

9. Writing up the report.

10. Discuss article and then chapter.

Assignment – to read next chapter, and to go to my website and look up Positive Psychology information