Suppose You Need to Evaluate Your Practice Where You Are

Essay

Suppose you need to evaluate your practice where you are treating a group of 12 victims of violent crimes. These clients were victimized at some time in the past 3 months and they are experiencing anxiety as a result, and you will measure anxiety as one means of evaluating the success of your service. You are providing a group treatment intervention where you will meet with your 12 clients once per week for a period of 6 months. You have four questions to answer:
(1) What are the two criteria for selecting a research design that you should answer?
(2) How do you answer these two questions in this situation?
(3) What research design do you think would be feasible in the typical practice situation where you faced this situation?
(4) Does this design control for the threats that should be of special concern?