Research Skills: Journaling

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Research Skills: Journaling

Journaling is one important tool that a researcher can use to study, observe, and reflect on collected data. For this week’s Application, you will practice your journaling skills. You will then compose a paper detailing your experience of journaling, and an analysis of how journaling could be useful in your future research.

To prepare for this Application:

  • Review the Janesick readings for this week.
  • Consider the potential usefulness of journal writing for the personal and professional development of a qualitative researcher.
  • For three consecutive days, write in a journal for 15 minutes (to be completed in one sitting). You may write by hand, or use a computer. Consider using Exercise 4.5: Reflective Journal Writing Practice on pages 96-97 for a suggestion of what you could write about for your journal periods.
  • At the end of each 15-minute session, take a few moments to review what you have written, then take an additional 10 minutes to reflect on the journaling experience, writing down your reflections on what you have written and on the journaling experience in general. How can journaling help you develop as a researcher?

The assignment:

  • Craft a 3-page paper in which you do the following:
    • Render an account and an analysis of your journal writing experience.
    • Be sure to include considerations of how journal writing can help with the development of a qualitative researcher, or a researcher in general.

Critical Analysis Of Research Article

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Select a research article of interest to you, preferably related to your Research Proposal, and use the Research Evaluation Worksheet found on the student website to analyze the article. You can use this information to help you form the literature review section of your research proposal.

What ethical issues arise from working with children in school settings?

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You are working as a school counselor in an elementary school in a rural community. You are also on the city council and are involved in your local faith-based community. As such, you know most people in the community.

You have instituted an abuse prevention program for the school including a component with a series of books and skits. After one of your presentations, you are referred to twins, Jonah and Joann. The children are in fifth grade and have been referred to you after repeatedly showing up at school in the late spring unkempt and wearing long-sleeved shirts, despite the heat and lack of air conditioning in the school. At recess, their teacher notices a series of bruises on their arms. As the teacher, Ms. Jones, makes a referral to you; she says, “I always knew there was a problem with the Johnson twins, but no one dares say anything because of how mean their father is.”.

After some discussion with the children, they disclose that they sometimes get hit or grabbed if they are bad. You see bruises and know that you have to file a report but are concerned about what will happen to the children after you report. Their father has a reputation around town of threatening people and you are worried about what may happen to both you and the children following the report.

Write a 1,500- to 1,750-word paper, based on the case presented above, on prevention methods and interventions in different settings. Include the following in your paper:

  • What are the primary interventions and methods human service professionals use to prevent child abuse and neglect in a family setting?
  • What are the primary interventions and methods human service professionals use to prevent child abuse and neglect in a school setting?
  • What ethical issues arise from working with children in school settings? What other factors must be considered?

How the issue affects physical, cognitive and socioemotional development

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Brochure section 1

Choose an issue that affects children in middle childhood or adolescence, such as bullying or eating disorders.

 

Create a brochure for prevention and treatment of that issue targeted at the middle childhood or adolescent population.

 

Address the following:

 

  • Description of the issue
  • Statistics about the pervasiveness of this issue
  • How the issue affects physical, cognitive and socioemotional development
  • Prevention strategies
  • Intervention strategies
  • Specific resources that provide additional information about this issue: name, contact information, and websites

 

Obtain faculty approval.

 

Format your brochure consistent with APA guidelines

 

Power Point Section 2

Imagine that you have been tasked with creating a presentation for middle school youth discussing puberty.

 

Create a 8- to 10-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation including the following:

 

  • Discuss the physical changes in boys and girls.
  • Discuss how puberty affects emotional and social development in boys and girls.

 

Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines.