SCS-285 2-1 Practice Activity

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2-1 Practice Activity: Identifying Research Questions Keith Strege JR March 15 th , 2024 Professor David Endicott Scenario One: You are a social worker in an outpatient clinical setting. You receive referrals from juvenile court counselors (also known as probation officers) to provide clinical assessments and therapy for juveniles aged 12 to 17 suspected of having a mental illness such as depression and/or a substance use disorder. In your work over the last several years, you noticed that when a youth has been in treatment for several months, they tend to have fewer arrests for crimes. You are interested in conducting a research study about what is at the core of this outcome.  What is your research question? What crimes were committed by the juveniles before and after treatment?

 Why do you think this is the research question being asked? To get results of the crimes that were committed before the juveniles went into treatment and then to see if the same crimes were committed by the juveniles after treatment to see if the treatment is really helping. You are a caseworker responsible for investigating child abuse and neglect reports in your city. After team meeting discussions with fellow caseworkers, you noticed that when the report caseloads are high (over 50 cases per worker), there tend to be more substantiated cases of abuse before the caseworker can get involved in the initial case management after adjudication. It often takes one to two weeks before a caseworker can actually get involved in the case: This can be due to higher priorities among other cases, other caseworkers being out sick or on vacation, or the amount and type of paperwork involved. You are interested in knowing what can be improved to reduce the numbers of substantiated abuse cases and the time frame between report and actual involvement, which would minimize the likelihood of this abuse occurring.  What is your research question? Would the likelihood of the abuse cases be less if the caseworkers had fewer caseloads?  Why do you think this is the research question being asked? I think this research question would be asked based on if there were more caseworkers so that each caseworker could have less

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