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PSYC 5360: Cultural Psychology: NOTES:

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From Dr. Nero:

The PSYC 5360 class meets on Thursday, January 26th from 5 - 6:15. I would like for there to be a computer lab for this class. The students are required to review 15 peer reviewed articles that are no more than 10 years old. The topic must include a cultural or racial group and a clinical problem in its title. Below are examples:
                     Diagnosing Substance Abuse in Native American Youth
                     Treatment Outcomes for PTSD in African American Iraqi War Veterans
                     Help Seeking Behavior among Middle Eastern Immigrants.

 

Topic: Original Research. Relationship between hours of sleep and academic performance

  1. Find studies published in peer reviewed journals on topic:
    1. Find 15 peer reviewed articles/studies
    2. The articles must not be published before 2007.
    3. Review them. This might help but make sure to “think outside of the box”. Read Conclusion /Discussions…. Are any other articles commenting or citing that study? How would you make it better?  What is missing?  (Bias, Accuracy, Vocabulary/Terminology, Reliability, Validity, Timeliness- has anything changed to skew the data for today ex. New Orleans before Hurricane, Relevance, Quality of research. ) Can you update the research or give a different point of view?
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  2. Find an established questionnaire that lists how valid and reliable it is when it comes to measuring how much sleep the subjects get at night. Academic Performance can be gathered in demographic data?

*= Truncation Symbol. Takes the root of a word and many suffixes (s, ation, -fy, -ing, -it is).

KEEP TRACK of Vocabulary, terms used in your research articles. Use the Thesaurus/ Subject Headings for that database.

Cross Disciplinary Topics:

The topic must include a cultural or racial group and a clinical problem in its title.

  1. Diagnosing Substance Abuse in Native American Youth  (Cultural, Psychology, Education/ Medicine)

Native American

Youth

Diagnos*

Substance Abuse

 

Tribe*

What ages?

Symptom*

Drugs

 

State?

children

Problem area

Name of drug

 

Reservation?

teen*

 

overdose

 

Where?

adolescen*

Might not use this

user

 

Inter-city

kids

Then look for the other three.

Addict*

 

Urban

girl*/female*

Treatment/Plan/ Evidence/

Street name of drug

 

Rural

boy*/male*

 

Alcohol*

 

 

high school

 

Narcotic*

 

 

Etc. area tested

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Treatment Outcomes for PTSD in African American Iraqi War Veterans (Psychology, Education, Medical, Military, Governmental.)

PTSD

Treatment*

African American*

Iraqi-War or Second Persian Gulf War or 2nd Persian Gulf War

Vets or GIs

Post traumatic*

Strateg*

Black*

2003-2011

Soldier*

Posttraumat*

Program*

Minorit*

https://www.britannica.com/event/Iraq-War

Special Force*, Green Berets , Army, Navy, Air Force etc.

Post-traum*

Assist*

(femal*or male* or men* or women* or age)

United States, American*, USA etc

Britain, England, Great Britain, etc. Whatever names for the forces.

 

Veteran*

Stress*

Outcom*

Survivor*

 

 

anxiety

Plan

Hero*

 

 

Symptom*

Help-Seek*

 

 

 

Guilt*

Help seek*

Adheran*

 

 

 

Depress*

Success*

 

 

 

Dream*

Repeat* etc.

 

 

 

Reality

Suicide*

 

 

 

“Back in Time”

Rate (success/ failure etc.)Stat*

 

 

 

 

longitudinal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Help Seeking Behavior among Middle Eastern Immigrants (Cultural, Business, Psychology, Education, Medical, Governmental)

Help-seek*

Middle Eastern

Immigrant*

 

 

Help seek*

 

migrant

 

 

Help seek*

 

emigrant

 

 

Assist*

 

nonnative

 

 

Any customs or barriers.

 

foreigner

 

 

Religious mores

 

asylum

 

 

Hindrance to

 

Refugee*

 

 

Counsel*

From:

Displaced?

 

 

Aid or help* or hidden or need etc.

Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Israel, West Bank, Gaza Strip, Jordan, Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Arabia- Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Yemen, Oman, Bahrain, Oatar, Trucial State or Trucial Oman or United Arab Emirates, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Afghanistan & Pakistan, and maybe Greece.

 

Can have those in USA with official permission or without- illegal aliens

 

 

 

https://www.britannica.com/place/Middle-East