Psyc of Trauma – Exam 2025 With
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Describe advantages/disadvantage of working in schools following disasters - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Advantages:
1) children are required to attend school
2) good for events that affect whole community
3) broad range of demographics
4) good place to examine treatment programs
Disadvantages:
1) not good for events such as mass transportation because that doesn't target a community
2) not good for events that only affected a small number of people
3) not good for studying effects on those with psychopathologies -- they may feel stigmatized
being evaluated in a school setting
Identify 2 sampling strategies - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1) standard sampling -- find affected
schools, and select randomly from them
2) matching - in a controlled study, find affected and unaffected schools and match race, sex,
age, grade, etc
Provide an explanation for the purpose of matching - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔you can determine
causation, validity, randomization and representation , generalizability
Children response after disaster - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-parents often underestimate impacts
of disaster on children (awareness/guilt)
, -schools are logical setting to evaluate children following disaster (Degree of disturbance in
community 4-16)?
-false memory syndrome: kids cant recall certain aspects of abusive situations
-best predictor: how parent reacts
challenges of working in schools - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1) Chaos after disaster -- need to focus
on rebuilding and student safety before research
2) research is secondary to school principles -- academics come first
3) school's primary goals are academics, socialization, and emotional development -- not
research.
4) hard to ask students difficult/sensitive questions (pre-event functioning, may remind them of
previous trauma)
5) must provide referral sources
6) minimize demands on teacher's time and resources (consent forms, passing out instruments)
7) reaching multicultural groups (permission forms in different languages, parents unfamiliar
with research)
ASIS - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔children that have experienced prior traumatic events before the
age of 10. many kids have met A-1 for DSM
If primary research concern is percentage of children affected, types of reactions, predictors of
outcome, then.... (what sampling strategy?) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Use standard sampling
strategy -select target schools at random (affected / unaffected)
recruit schools that enroll children who were directly affected by the disaster
If primary question is comparisons across affected and unaffected groups, then.... (what
sampling strategy?) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Select both affected and unaffected schools
matched demographically (age, race, sex, size & academic level)
100% Correct Answers
Describe advantages/disadvantage of working in schools following disasters - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Advantages:
1) children are required to attend school
2) good for events that affect whole community
3) broad range of demographics
4) good place to examine treatment programs
Disadvantages:
1) not good for events such as mass transportation because that doesn't target a community
2) not good for events that only affected a small number of people
3) not good for studying effects on those with psychopathologies -- they may feel stigmatized
being evaluated in a school setting
Identify 2 sampling strategies - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1) standard sampling -- find affected
schools, and select randomly from them
2) matching - in a controlled study, find affected and unaffected schools and match race, sex,
age, grade, etc
Provide an explanation for the purpose of matching - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔you can determine
causation, validity, randomization and representation , generalizability
Children response after disaster - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-parents often underestimate impacts
of disaster on children (awareness/guilt)
, -schools are logical setting to evaluate children following disaster (Degree of disturbance in
community 4-16)?
-false memory syndrome: kids cant recall certain aspects of abusive situations
-best predictor: how parent reacts
challenges of working in schools - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1) Chaos after disaster -- need to focus
on rebuilding and student safety before research
2) research is secondary to school principles -- academics come first
3) school's primary goals are academics, socialization, and emotional development -- not
research.
4) hard to ask students difficult/sensitive questions (pre-event functioning, may remind them of
previous trauma)
5) must provide referral sources
6) minimize demands on teacher's time and resources (consent forms, passing out instruments)
7) reaching multicultural groups (permission forms in different languages, parents unfamiliar
with research)
ASIS - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔children that have experienced prior traumatic events before the
age of 10. many kids have met A-1 for DSM
If primary research concern is percentage of children affected, types of reactions, predictors of
outcome, then.... (what sampling strategy?) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Use standard sampling
strategy -select target schools at random (affected / unaffected)
recruit schools that enroll children who were directly affected by the disaster
If primary question is comparisons across affected and unaffected groups, then.... (what
sampling strategy?) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Select both affected and unaffected schools
matched demographically (age, race, sex, size & academic level)
