Week 8 Assignment 2

     Week 8 Assignment 2

     Writing my Literature Review was extremely educational. I had a lot of fun through this course researching a topic that actually interested me and would benefit me in the future. I think that was why I feel as confident as I do in my review, I had a passion for the topic. The most difficult part of the process, I think, was reading all the material to gather a definition on the literature review. All the resources supplied to me were very helpful and I feel like I have a basic idea of what a literature review is, now. The research I did on my topic helped me explore different agencies, avenues, and methods that a sexual assault victim might take to cope after an attack. This information will be helpful to me, in the future, when I am a Victim Advocate.

Week 7 Assignment 2

Stephanie Otto

Professor Trudi Van Dyke-Simms

LBSU-302

8/15/2015

Using the Brandman Library Database search I typed in Sexual Assault Victims Cope and search through a lot of articles and books to find my two new sources which are listed at the end of my Annotated Bibliography. I wanted to include these because they discuss the importance of the medical technicians after and attack and how the nurses directly affect how a child will cope after and attack. The second one focused on the offender which I find important to understanding how victims cope because sometimes victims need to understand that nothing they could have done could have prevented from being attack. They need to know that they are not the problem, the offender is. These two sources answer the questions of “Who plays important roles when dealing with victims who are trying to cope?” And, “What are the characteristics of Sexual offenders and why do they do what they do? And, what aspect(s) of your research question do they address? I would like to do a little more research on how victims cope by studying specific victims and the struggles they had to endure. The most interesting portion of my research for a wide audience might be, there is a lot that you can do to help victims cope. A lot of the prevention for before and after an attack has to do with community actions.

Sexual Assault Victims Cope Research: Annotated Bibliography

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Sexual violence prevention: beginning the dialogue. Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 2004.

This article was produced by the CDC as a proposal for sexual violence prevention. The CDC gives outlines on what sexual violence prevention looks like before and after an attack. This rates as an excellent source based off of the CRAAP test because although it was written in 2004 it is relevant, accurate, and has purpose for this research topic. It also carries a lot of authority because it was written by the CDC. The article is extremely important for this research topic because it draws out plans to educate the community and more specifically victims of sexual assault to avoid further victimization, or revictimization.

Debra Patterson and Brenda Tringali Understanding How Advocates Can Affect Sexual Assault Victim Engagement in the Criminal Justice ProcessJ Interpers Violence July 2015 30: 1987-1997, first published on October 6, 2014 doi:10.1177/0886260514552273

The most relevant information in this article is the relationship between advocates and the victims. It covers the emotional responses of the victims and how it affects the court system. This is a very current article. And is accurate and relevant. I would score it an excellent for the CRAAP test.

Najdowski, C. J., & Ullman, S. E. (2011). The effects of revictimization on coping and depression in female sexual assault victims. Journal Of Traumatic Stress, 24(2), 218-221. doi:10.1002/jts.20610

This article took a mail survey of women who were victims of sexual assaults and asked them about their coping methods. A lot of women experienced depression and developed maladaptive coping methods. This survey is relevant to the designated research topic because it has the statistics on women who are dealing with being a victim and how they are coping, some with depression and some with coping habits that could potentially make them a victim again. The research also rates an excellent in the CRAAP test. Although, further research may find me more current information I still feel as if it’s a good base.

Pritchard, J., Lewis, R., Ryan, B., Hoffman, K., & Nelson, S. (2013). Good Practice in Promoting Recovery and Healing for Abused Adults. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

A sexual assault victim can be very fragile and this book covers recovery and healing for the victim. This is relevant to the research topic because recovery and healing is extremely important for victims who are coping. This book is also an excellent on the CRAAP test because it’s relevant and has a lot of authority behind it. It has a section that explains all the credentials of the contributors.

Finkel, M. A. (2009). Medical Evaluation of Child Sexual Abuse : A Practical Guide. Elk Grove Village: American Academy of Pediatrics.

This book covers the importance of medical personnel, like nurses, during a child’s medical evaluation. This is relevant to my topic because this often plays a role in reestablishing trust for the child during their period of coping. I would rate this a good based off of the CRAAP Criteria because of the currency and relevant portion.

Palermo, G. B., & Farkas, M. A. (2001). The Dilemma of the Sexual Offender. Springfield: Charles C Thomas.

Knowing your offender is a way to help cope and realize that you are not a victim because of something you did. That is what this book covers, understanding the sexual offender. I would rate this a good on the CRAAP test criteria because I don’t believe it’s 100% relevant but I still find it important to my research.

Academic integrity

Week 6

This week we covered academic integrity. I particularly liked listening to the TEDTALK. I think that guy brought up a lot of good points. I was glad to see he was realizing that with technology changing kids are finding new ways to utilize different concepts and recreate them. Through the ted talk I was thinking about Napster, bittorrent, and Limewire. These three were companies that as a kid we were “pirating” music. We didn’t understand it as stealing. As I grow up I’m learning about all this copy right stuff. Seems like a lot to wade through. I do realize the importance of this topic when it comes to research. One, you don’t want to take credit for something you didn’t do. And two, in school I’m realizing teachers don’t want to hear about what you think they want you to back it up with someone else’s work because you want your paper to be credible. Im also glad to see there are agencies available for creators to learn about their rights and design effective routes for them to keep their material safe and used for what they want it used for. I feel as if I have a good understanding of what academic integrity is.

References-

Lawrence Lessing's TED Talk on “Laws that Choke Creativity – http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity?language=en

Week 5 Assignment 2 Revictimization

Stephanie Otto

7/30/2015

Week 5 Assignment 2 Blog Post

                This assignment was very interesting to me once I found my article. I knew all victims would cope differently but I never really thought of the effect that PTSD would have on someone and the maladaptive behaviors they could experience after a sexual assault and how that can revictimize them. I am not reconsidering my initial research topic but this did give me a great deal of insight! I didn’t focus on other authors or sources very much during my research because I did get very involved with the one I found. I feel as if my research skills are developing well. I’m really learning to navigate the different databases and also learning to analyze the article quickly to determine if it’s something I want to spend my time on or not. This week I really learned not to get caught up in the data but just get a general understanding of what it is trying to represent. This helped me in time saving when searching through other articles.

Week 4 Assignment 2

This week I found an article that discusses the effect that a victim advocate can have on a victim in regards to their coping and also their decision whether or not to enter the criminal justice system. Our assignment this week opened up the world of peer reviewed articles to me. I enjoyed these because the particular ones I looked at were one- not funded. This is important to me because someone is not writing while financially influenced. And two- peer reviewed goes through a large process to verify the information because of this I feel it is accurate. The portion of this week’s assignment that was incredibly helpful was when I learned to organize the articles by “Scholarly articles” this helped ensure that I was looking at exactly what I was there to look at. A difficulty that I still need to improve on is reading the article enough to understand it’s purpose but not in it’s entirety. As I continue my research I want to discover ways to be the best victim advocate I can be. I need to understand how victims cope so that I can understand how to approach a victim in the most effective way possible.

Debra Patterson and Brenda Tringali Understanding How Advocates Can Affect Sexual Assault Victim Engagement in the Criminal Justice ProcessJ Interpers Violence July 2015 30: 1987-1997, first published on October 6, 2014 doi:10.1177/0886260514552273

Week 3 Assignment 2

     The book I chose this week in my research was Pritchard, J., Lewis, R., Ryan, B., Hoffman, K., & Nelson, S. (2013). Good Practice in Promoting Recovery and Healing for Abused Adults. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

     One thing I learned through Assignment 1 and having found this book is that there are Safe guarding procedures for adults to prevent them from further harm after a abuse event whether sexual or non-sexual. It takes a lot of its procedures from Child Protection Services and implements them for adult practices. I also learned more about trauma and complex traumas that I feel will help me further understand what a victim in encountering internally when I have an individual that I’m assigned to as a victim advocate.

     A new strategy that I gained from this assignment was learning to use advanced searches to find my relevant titles quicker and easier so I didn’t have to snoop around the library for hours.

    A difficulty that I encountered during the assignment was checking the Authority of the author. Luckily this book had a Contributors section which gave a description of the authors and their credentials.

    During my continued research I hope to gain more understand of what victims are going through emotionally and how I can facilitate them into healing and recovering at a rate that is comfortable for them.

This week I established my research topic of “How do Victims of Sexual Assault Cope after and attack?”.

The first background information that I found was post by a very experience psychologist, Barbra Krahe. Her article discussed factors that facilitate a sexual assault such as lack of socialization and pornography when it comes to the offender. I also enjoy reading what she had to write as far as the victims because she went over how the way authorities and institutions reacted towards a victim. She mentioned that there’s a lot of change that needs to be done when it comes to a response to the victim. This is important because it just scrapes the surface of the “Secondary Victimization” that can occur after just a horrific event. This is important to my research because as a victim advocate I would be working directly with the victims and I need to understand just how sensitive their state of being is.

The second background information I chose was from RAINN, Rape Abuse and Incest National Network. This is a great resource for victims to go to to seek out the proper steps to bringing their offender to justice as well as help lead the victim into the right course for their coping process. They also have very useful data collected from multiple agencies, including the U.S. Dept of justice and U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children and Families.

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