Article Critique Assignment
1. The type of research used in this study was quantitative. Quantitative research compares outcomes, measures using numbers, tests a hypothesis, and requires a larger sample. The article being critiqued, used standardized clinical tools, the CAFAS and the CBCL, and standardized measures to generate numeric scores. The type of research used in this study is explanatory. Explanatory research seeks to explain how and why things happen, test theories, establish cause and effect relationships, and predict future events.
2. The research problem was clearly stated and concerned with the insufficient services available to children and adolescents with a severe emotional disturbance (SED). The needs of youths with …show more content…
The population studied was clearly defined as 126 youth participants, ages 5 to 18, who had been diagnosed with SED as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) diagnostic criteria (American Psychiatric Association, 2000) and were in state custody foster care or parental custody. The SED must also result in functional impairment that largely interferes or is limits the normative functioning and roles of the youths in relation to their family, school, community activities for one year or expected to impair the youth for one year. Additionally, at intake the youth were diagnosed by a DCFS clinical staff member, and required to complete the Child and Adolescent Functional Assessment Scale; a score of 40 or higher on the scale is required to required to meet the SED criteria. The sampling method used was non-probability sampling, in which every element has an unknown and usually different chance of selection. Non-probability sampling is not representative of the population, no generalizations can be made, only speculations that what hold true for the sample also does for the population. Non-probability sampling was appropriate for the research question because they were not randomly selected, they were selected conveniently.
The characteristics of the sample included, three groups which consisted of, foster plus wraparound, parental plus wrap around, traditional foster plus no wrap around. The treatment was the wraparound and the …show more content…
The major threat to internal validity is that the participants were not randomly assigned to groups. Without randomization, internal validity may be impacted by historical effects, maturation, testing effects, instrumentation, statistical regression, and selection bias. In this instance, treatment contamination needs to be considered. For instance, the control group may have communicate with the experimental group. Youths in foster care in the same state have an increased likelihood of coming into contact with each other, such as at or community functions geared towards that population. The increased contact the groups may have, the greater the chance for treatment contamination. Resentful demoralization needs to be considered as a potential threat to internal validity, because the control group may harbor resentment for being placed into the control group. Foster youths may be at an increased risk to become resentful because experienced abuse and neglect which is why they are in state custody, many of which make multiple transitions between placements, and often times are overwhelmed with exhaustive questioning and
1. The type of research used in this study was quantitative. Quantitative research compares outcomes, measures using numbers, tests a hypothesis, and requires a larger sample. The article being critiqued, used standardized clinical tools, the CAFAS and the CBCL, and standardized measures to generate numeric scores. The type of research used in this study is explanatory. Explanatory research seeks to explain how and why things happen, test theories, establish cause and effect relationships, and predict future events.
2. The research problem was clearly stated and concerned with the insufficient services available to children and adolescents with a severe emotional disturbance (SED). The needs of youths with …show more content…
The population studied was clearly defined as 126 youth participants, ages 5 to 18, who had been diagnosed with SED as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) diagnostic criteria (American Psychiatric Association, 2000) and were in state custody foster care or parental custody. The SED must also result in functional impairment that largely interferes or is limits the normative functioning and roles of the youths in relation to their family, school, community activities for one year or expected to impair the youth for one year. Additionally, at intake the youth were diagnosed by a DCFS clinical staff member, and required to complete the Child and Adolescent Functional Assessment Scale; a score of 40 or higher on the scale is required to required to meet the SED criteria. The sampling method used was non-probability sampling, in which every element has an unknown and usually different chance of selection. Non-probability sampling is not representative of the population, no generalizations can be made, only speculations that what hold true for the sample also does for the population. Non-probability sampling was appropriate for the research question because they were not randomly selected, they were selected conveniently.
The characteristics of the sample included, three groups which consisted of, foster plus wraparound, parental plus wrap around, traditional foster plus no wrap around. The treatment was the wraparound and the …show more content…
The major threat to internal validity is that the participants were not randomly assigned to groups. Without randomization, internal validity may be impacted by historical effects, maturation, testing effects, instrumentation, statistical regression, and selection bias. In this instance, treatment contamination needs to be considered. For instance, the control group may have communicate with the experimental group. Youths in foster care in the same state have an increased likelihood of coming into contact with each other, such as at or community functions geared towards that population. The increased contact the groups may have, the greater the chance for treatment contamination. Resentful demoralization needs to be considered as a potential threat to internal validity, because the control group may harbor resentment for being placed into the control group. Foster youths may be at an increased risk to become resentful because experienced abuse and neglect which is why they are in state custody, many of which make multiple transitions between placements, and often times are overwhelmed with exhaustive questioning and