Imagine that you are working at an agency that serves victims of domestic violence. You have been asked by the agency’s clinical director to create a trauma-informed care therapy program for victims of domestic violence.

Write a 700-1,050-word essay describing the program you would want to create. Address the following in your essay:

1. Describe how you would do a needs assessment to determine the need for such a program. Would you use quantitative or qualitative tools? Why?
2. What tool would you use to measure the outcome of the program? Would you use a quantitative or a qualitative tool? Why?
3. Research one trauma-informed care intervention you would recommend to the clinical director and evaluate its effectiveness. Discuss its validity and reliability as an intervention. Was the research conducted based on quantitative or qualitative measures?

Include a minimum of three scholarly resources in your essay.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide

Answer preview

Domestic violence has been described as the committing of violent acts against a person in a situation where the perpetrator and the victim are in a domestic setting. The term is most synonymously used with violence against a family member or between people in a cohabitation. However, its meaning is broad enough to include violence committed against a former spouse, children, parents or someone in an intimate relationship with the perpetrator even if they are in a same-sex relationship. The violence may take the form of physical, emotional, economic, religious or even sexual abuse. Previous researchers have shown that the most significant number of victims of domestic violence are women.

I would use qualitative research tools to come up with a trauma-informed therapy program for domestic violence victims. This is because qualitative research methods enable the researcher to understand the thoughts and believes of the…

 

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