Innovations in Trauma Research Methods, 2007

✍ Scribed by Jeffrey Sonis; Patrick A. Palmieri; Dean Lauterbach; Lynda A. King; Daniel W. King

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 47 KB
• Volume: 21
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-9867
• DOI: 10.1002/jts.20358

✦ Synopsis

Methodology Special Interest Group of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS). The conference theme for CITRM 2007 was "Research Methods for Studying Violence and Trauma in Children, Intimate Partners, and Families." The theme was intended to include research methods for studying perpetration of family violence and its psychological sequelae.

Like the three previous conferences, CITRM 2007 included presentations dealing with different aspects of the research process, including study design, sampling, measurement, ethics, and data analysis. Some presentations were given by speakers well known in the community of trauma researchers and clinicians, such as the Plenary Address, "Challenges Facing a Maturing Field of Child Traumatic Stress Research," by John Fairbank, former President of ISTSS and Co-Director of the UCLA-Duke University National Center for Child Traumatic Stress. Consistent with CITRM's goal of enhancing diffusion of innovative research methods and designs from other disciplines and specialties, several sessions were presented by researchers whose expertise lay outside the field of trauma research. For example, in his presentation, "The Psychol-