Fact Claims, Sources and Proposed Corroborating Research
Parents or Caretakers who have been abused or neglect as children are
more likely to abuse or neglect their own children. (Profession work experience)
(Survey a generation of family members to gain historical information
regarding their childhood experiences and their current methods of parenting.)
Peer support reduces stress of going through an illness. (Volunteer exprience.) (Survey of people in treatment to see if they got peer support and had less stress associated with their diseases.)
Adolescents have difficulty asking for help. (Work experience in a therapeutic setting.) (Survey of therapists as to whether adolscents are forthcoming in asking for help and what signs to therapists look for when they are not.)
Afterschool recreational facilities with a wide variety of equipment and activities attract more youth than facilities with less resources. (Personal observations of different programs and informal conversations with youth.) (Survey participants in programs to see what attracted them to a program.)
People with lower socioeconomic status are less concerned about issues of environment protection. (field experience.) (Survey a sample of people and see if environment awareness and concerns as measured by Likert-type scale questions (Strongly Agree -- Strongly Disagree) indicate that environment awareness and concern vary with socioeconomic status, income, education, etc.
Child care workers with social work degrees are more likely to use an "empowering" approach of intervention with clients they serve. (Personal belief.) (Survey of workers in an agency to see if ones with degrees indicate a stronger commitment to an "empowering" approach to working with clients.)
Some practitioners of social service do not have training in how to provide services to clients. (Work Experience.) (Survey workers.)
The use of resource coordination to assist in placing defendants from custody into community-based organizations helps to reduce prison overcrowding and reduce recidivism. (Popular understanding among practitioners in the field.) (Compare recidivism rates for defendants that got resource coordination services versus those who did not.)
Children in low-income environments are more likely to receive an inadequate education then students from high-income areas. (Work experience in two different schools.) (Compare data on resources, staffing, funding, outcomes, etc., at different schools.)
Lack of abortion training in medical schools limits the number of ob/gyn and family medicine physcians willing and able to perform abortion procedures. (Discussions with medical students and physicians.) (Survey physicians.)
Persons out of school five years or more have a harder time passing the GED exam than people who have been out of school less than five years. (Workshop experiences.) (Compare results for people by age.)
Individuals with Down Syndrome do not necessarily have mental retardation. (Information provided by agencies.) (Administer standardized intelligence tests to clients.)
No person currently addicted to drugs and alcohol was forced to use. (Five years experience working with clients.) (Survey clients about why they started using; focus group interviews; participant observation in social functions in the community.)
Many people diagnosed with bi-polar disorder who are addicts began their addictions as a form of self-medication for their mood swings. (Work experience with clients in a partial hospital program.) (Survey bi-polar addicts.)
Multi-disciplinary investigations of child sexual abuse reduces the
investigation-related trauma to children and their families and improves
the quality of the investigation.
(Report from the National Children's Advocacy Center.) (Compare investigation
outcomes of team investigations and parallel investigators and trauma reported
by children and their families.)
Incidents of child abuse occur more frequently in the homes where mohters are victims of domestic violence. (Work expericence.) (Compare client families.)